Head of R&D for Payments by Wix

We are:

Payments by Wix — a fast-growing group dealing with all aspects of online payment processing and financial services for Wix users. Essentially, we make it possible for millions of Wix users to get paid on their website frictionlessly and without being payment savvy. Today, we process billions of dollars a year in over 190 countries worldwide. And we are just getting started.

The success of Payments is mission critical for the overall success of business users at Wix. We’re a customer-obsessed group of experts from all disciplines and possess vast knowledge and experience in FinTech. One of our main focuses is our native, in-house payment processor, Wix Payments, which sits alongside other 60 third-party payment solutions.

You are:

An ambitious and humble leader who wants to build something unique with a desire to win big. You have experience building and scaling engineering groups with multiple teams and managers. You’ve experienced growth and know how to scale yourself and your group. You’re a problem solver who enjoys tackling bigger challenges. You’re passionate, intelligent, opinionated, humble, and respectful of other people’s opinions. You’re willing and able to mentor others. You can build robust architecture while delivering the best product for our users.

As Head of R&D for Payments by Wix, you will:

• Join the Payments management team with the ambition to impact group-wide decisions.
• Lead a team of engineers across multiple sites, focusing on growing team leads and R&D managers within the group.
• Create an engineering vision aligned with the company’s overall strategy.
• Translate your engineering vision into high-level workforce planning, knowledge distribution, and organizational structure.
• Define and evolve the structure of the R&D organization by setting architectural direction.
• Facilitate solving day-to-day engineering struggles.
• Ensure strong collaboration between Engineering, Product and Operations within Payments, while effectively collaborating with different stakeholders throughout Wix.
• Recruit, mentor and advise top talent on your team.
• Identify ways to raise the bar of the engineering workflow to improve velocity and get buy-ins from cross-functional teams and leadership.