Staff Backend Engineer, Webflow
$164-231.5k
Salary shown for US candidates and is dependent on location. For Canada: CAD 212,000 - CAD 299,000. + Equity
More information about location
No-code web design and hosting platform
Open for applications
No-code web design and hosting platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$164-231.5k
Salary shown for US candidates and is dependent on location. For Canada: CAD 212,000 - CAD 299,000. + Equity
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To give creative designers the tools they need to create powerful and beautiful websites, all without having to code.
Role
Who you are
- If you're a dynamic engineer with a blend of frontend and backend skills, a strong systems mindset, and a passion for creating products that drive business success, this role will allow you to own impactful projects from start to finish
- Have 7+ years of experience developing and deploying web applications, with a proven track record of shipping code that solves business challenges
- Are proficient with Node.js, TypeScript, and Next.js, and can design and write scalable services and APIs using Express.js and MongoDB
- Have experience debugging production issues across complex, multi-service architectures, and at multiple levels of the stack
- Proven experience building complex web systems that scale efficiently while delivering a seamless user experience
- Are adept at working with Stripe and/or billing systems to build reliable, secure payment processing solutions
- Experience with testing frameworks (e.g. Jest, Mocha, Playwright, Cypress)
- Are comfortable working in an agile, safe-to-fail, environment
- Have a growth mindset, continually looking for opportunities to improve code, systems, and team processes
- Possess strong collaboration and communication skills, thriving in a cross-functional team environment where you work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers
- Have experience leading or mentoring other engineers, providing technical guidance, code reviews, and driving best practices
- Are product-focused and able to balance technical excellence with delivering meaningful business outcomes
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a highly skilled Staff Backend Engineer to join our SP (Service Provider) Success team
- Here, you’ll have the opportunity to directly impact Webflow’s trajectory by empowering our partners and creators to thrive on the platform
- You'll work on critical engineering projects that touch Webflow Marketplace, ensuring our partners' success and helping them unlock new opportunities for growth
- This is more than just a backend role — it’s a chance to make tangible contributions to the core of Webflow’s business
- Whether you're tackling complex system challenges, driving solutions from concept to production, or leveraging your full-stack expertise, your work will be at the intersection of technology and business growth
- Everything you build will have measurable outcomes, pushing both our product and our community forward
- Reporting to the Engineering Manager, SP Succes
- Architect, design, and implement scalable multi-tenant backend services and APIs
- Work on technologies such as Node.js, Javascript/Typescript, Next.js, 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
Our take
No-code development systems allow users to create and publish the kind of output that was once only possible with the help of a team of developers. Webflow is one such platform that allows non-developers to create professional websites without knowing any code. It joins others such as Pantheon, Weebly, Squarespace, and Wix in a hotly-contested low-code development market. While competition is high, so too is demand, with low-code platforms accounting for more than 65% of application development activity in 2024.
The popularity of platforms such as Webflow is perhaps not surprising, as low-code development is usually cheaper for companies to implement and reduces time to market. Webflow has been used by over 3.5 million designers and teams to create sites for companies including enterprise brands such as Dell, Rakuten, UpWork, and Petal. It raised a large amount of funding in a Series C round in 2022. This is being used to further develop its platform, with a longer-term goal of pivoting to providing a no-code tool not only for websites, but software development as well.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Mar 2022
$120m
SERIES C
Jan 2021
$140m
SERIES B
Total funding: $334.9m
Company benefits
- 100% insurance coverage
- 401K and financial planning
- Paid time off
- Annual retreat and offsites
- 10% time - Take up to 4 hours per week to focus on building skills, working on projects, or learning new Webflow-related things outside of your daily to-do’s.
- Commuter benefits
- Vacation bonus
- Office setup budget
- Health and wellness stipend
- Remote work reimbursements
- Continued education coverage
- Choose your own adventure
- Webflow subscription discount
Company values
- Obsess over customer experience
- Move with heartfel urgency
- Say the hard thing with care
- Make your mark
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Vlad Magdalin
(Co-founder & CEO)Having studied Computer Science at California Polytechnic, Vlad worked as a Web Associates Systems Engineer for 3 years before co-founding Chatterfox.com, where he spent 4 yeas. He left his Software Engineer position at Intuit in August 2012 to co-found Webflow the following month, and has been CEO since.
Sergie Magdalin
(Co-founder)Sergie spent 4 years as a freelance Graphic Designer before joining NameMuir Skate as a Web & UX Designer.
Bryant Chou
(Co-founder)Previously a Senior Software Engineer at Intuit and CTO at Vungle. He was also the founding CTO at Webflow.
Share this job
View 15 more jobs at Webflow