Staff Backend Engineer, Webflow

Developer Platform

$168.6-260.6k

Salary dependent on location and applicable to US candidates only. Salary for ON- and BC-based candidates as follows: CAD 217,000 - CAD 296,350. Plus equity

MongoDB

TypeScript

Node.js

Webflow

Senior and Expert level

Remote in Canada, US

More information about location

No-code web design and hosting platform

Job no longer available

No-code web design and hosting platform

1001+ employees

B2BSaaSNo-CodeWeb Design

Job no longer available

$168.6-260.6k

Salary dependent on location and applicable to US candidates only. Salary for ON- and BC-based candidates as follows: CAD 217,000 - CAD 296,350. Plus equity

MongoDB

TypeScript

Node.js

Webflow

Senior and Expert level

Remote in Canada, US

More information about location

1001+ employees

B2BSaaSNo-CodeWeb Design

Company mission

To give creative designers the tools they need to create powerful and beautiful websites, all without having to code.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

We’re looking for people passionate about distilling complexity across a breadth of problems & help in building the next generation Developer Platform & redefining the future of APIs at Webflow
You love the idea of developing for a technical developer audience
Have 7+ years of experience shipping features and products, with a focus on backend systems at scale
Have 3+ years developing APIs that are leveraged by an external audience
Are familiar with Node.js and TypeScript and can write scalable services and APIs using Express.js and MongoDB
Can debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack
Love thinking through large technical problems and working through that complexity on a collaborative, distributed team
Are comfortable building up a mental model of a product and architecture through reading code and debugging existing software
Take pride in taking ownership and driving projects to business impact
Deeply understand data design and modeling
Have consistently communicated trade-offs throughout a project to meet both technical and business requirements
Are comfortable working in an agile, safe-to-fail environment

What the job involves

We’re looking for a Staff Backend Engineer to help spearhead the technical vision of how we can build a best in class platform for apps and integrations allow Webflow developers to easily design, launch and manage any website they can dream of
Reporting to the Senior Engineering Manager
Collaborate with designers, product managers, and engineers to plan and build product capabilities that allow third party developers to extend Webflow's functionality with Webflow Apps
Have deep experience with API development at scale, bringing experience to the team that levels up our practices
Deep familiarity with authentication / authorization best practices
Solve problems in a highly technical platform that empowers hundreds of developers and hundreds of thousands of customers
Participate in all engineering activities including incident response, interviewing, designing and reviewing technical specifications, code review, and releasing new functionality
Improve our planning, development, and deployment processes to help you and your fellow team members
Tackle complex technical challenges on a collaborative and geographically distributed team

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

Top investors

34% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (4.1)

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 HQ

SoMa, San Francisco, CA

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.

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