Job Description
Title: Staff Backend Engineer, CMS Authoring
Location: U.S. Remote
At Webflow, our mission is to bring development superpowers to everyone. Webflow is the leading visual development platform for building powerful websites without writing code. 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.
We are looking for a Staff Backend Engineer to join the CMS Authoring team to build the most powerful and expressive visual development platform for teams and individuals.
About the role
- Location: San Francisco HQ, US Remote, or ON/BC, Canada
- Full-time
- Our cash compensation amount for this role ranges from $151,000 – $208,000 for most US locations and $168,000 – $231,000 for US locations with a higher cost of labor. All figures cited above are in $USD and pertain to workers located in the United States. Pay is based on several factors including market location, and may vary depending on job related experience, knowledge, qualifications, and skills.
As a Staff Backend Engineer, you’ll
- Develop a comprehensive knowledge of how areas of business, such as architecture and infrastructure, integrate to accomplish our business goals.
- Build amazing end-to-end API and developer experiences, ensuring that they are both impactful and reliable for our customers.
- Write and update scalable services in Node.js, Express.js, Mongo, GraphQL, Apollo and AWS Lambda. We use Javascript and Typescript.
- Collaborate with software engineers, product managers, designers, and QA analysts in an autonomous, supportive team environment
- Solve problems in a highly technical platform that empowers hundreds of thousands of people
- Improve our planning, development, and deployment processes to help you and your fellow team members
- Mentor, coach, and inspire a team of engineers of various levels
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 as a Staff Backend engineer if you:
- Have 7-10+ years of experience in scalable, multi-tenant environments
- Have 2+ years experience in tech-leading teams, including helping scope and breakdown work
- Experience tech-leading feature teams on customer-facing products, including writing technical specifications and collaborating with cross-functional partners.
- Value testing and documentation equally as much as your code
- Are comfortable with ambiguity and scoping solutions with your teammates
- Have consistently communicated trade offs throughout a project to meet both technical and business requirements
- Enjoy high-visibility work and presenting to executive counterparts
- Get excited about encouraging and developing other engineers