Staff Backend Engineer, Enterprise Workflows

Webflow is a visual web development platform that empowers non-coders to create incredible experiences for the web. By combining modern web development technologies into one platform, Webflow enables people to build websites visually, saving engineering time, while clean code seamlessly generates in the background. From independent designers and creative agencies to Fortune 500 companies, millions worldwide use Webflow to be more nimble, creative, and collaborative. It’s the web, made better.

The Enterprise Workflows team at Webflow builds and maintains collaboration features that support the needs of larger teams. We work to ensure teams can build and launch sites swiftly without compromising on quality or security. We’re looking for a Staff Backend Engineer who has empathy for customers and a desire to empower our customers’ teams to work together with confidence.
About the role

• Location: San Francisco HQ, US Remote, or ON/BC, Canada
• Full-time
• Permanent
• Exempt
• The cash compensation for this role is tailored to align with the cost of labor in different geographic markets. We’ve structured the base pay ranges for this role into zones for our geographic markets, and the specific base pay within the range will be determined by the candidate’s geographic location, job-related experience, knowledge, qualifications, and skills.
  • United States (all figures cited below in USD and pertain to workers in the United States)
    • Zone A: $187,000 – $263,500
    • Zone B: $175,000 – $247,000
    • Zone C: $164,000 – $231,500
  • Canada (All figures cited below in CAD and pertain to workers in ON & BC, Canada)
    • CAD 212,000 – CAD 299,000

As Staff Backend Engineer, you’ll:

• Architect, design, and implement scalable multi-tenant backend services and APIs.
• Work on technologies such as Node.js, Javascript/Typescript, MongoDB, GraphQL, Apollo, Amazon Web Services EC2, S3, Lambdas, Kafka, and more.
• Demonstrable solid experience and deep expertise in multiple technical domains.
• Contribute to building and executing on functional strategy.
• Lead projects that directly contribute to team and engineering organization’s deliverables.
• Produce and elevate the quality of maintainable, tested, performant, and scalable code.
• Author, collaborate on, and evaluate design documents.
• Influence technical designs and team-level prioritization as well as participate in technical solutions.
• Motivate and empower teammates to achieve a higher level of performance.
• Collaborate product managers and designers in an autonomous, supportive team environment.
• Mentor junior engineering in technical skills and Webflow culture.
• Participate in engineering citizenship activities such as co-authoring engineering blogs, strengthening and improving our hiring processes, and leading internal hackathon teams.

In addition to the responsibilities outlined above, at Webflow we will support you in identifying where your interests and development opportunities lie and we’ll help you incorporate them into your role.
About you
You’ll thrive in this role if you:

• Have 7+ years developing and deploying web applications, with a proven track record of shipping code.
• Are familiar with Node.js and TypeScript and can write scalable services and APIs using Express.js and MongoDB.
• Have led and mentored other software engineers and helped them achieve their career goals.
• Can debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack.
• Proven experience building complex web systems.
• Experience with testing frameworks (e.g. Jest, Mocha, Playwright, Cypress).
• Are comfortable working in an agile, safe-to-fail, environment.