Senior Backend Engineer, Developer Platform

About the Role

Webflow is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join our Developer Platform team, which is focused on building systems that support Webflow’s APIs and enable external developers to build new products on top of it. This role is crucial in extending Webflow’s core capabilities and redefining the future of APIs at our company.

Responsibilities

• 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.

About You

• You love the idea of developing for a technical developer audience.
• Have 5+ years of experience shipping features and products, with a focus on backend systems at scale.
• Have 2+ years developing APIs that are leveraged by an external audience.
• Are familiar with Node.js 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.

Our Core Behaviors

• Obsess over customer experience.
• Move with heartfelt urgency.
• Say the hard thing with care.
• Make your mark.

Benefits & Wellness

• Equity ownership (RSUs) in a growing, privately-owned company.
• 100% employer-paid healthcare, vision, and dental insurance coverage for employees and dependents.
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave for both birthing and non-birthing caregivers.
• Flexible PTO with a mandatory annual minimum of 10 days paid time off.
• Professional career coaching, internal learning & development programs.
• 401k plan and pension schemes.
• Commuter benefits for in-office employees.
• Discounted Pet Insurance offering (US only).

Remote, together

At Webflow, equality is a core tenet of our culture. We are committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences.