Senior Backend Engineer, Enterprise Workflows

About Webflow

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.

About the Role

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 Senior Backend Engineer who has empathy for customers and a desire to empower our customers' teams to work together with confidence.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Collaborate with product managers and designers in an autonomous, supportive team environment.
• Mentor junior engineers 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.

Requirements

• 5+ years developing and deploying web applications, with a proven track record of shipping code.
• Familiarity with Node.js and TypeScript and ability to write scalable services and APIs using Express.js, GraphQL, Apollo, and MongoDB.
• Ability to 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).
• Comfortable working in an agile, safe-to-fail environment.

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.
• Access to mental wellness and professional coaching, therapy, and Employee Assistance Program.
• Monthly stipends to support health and wellness, smart work, and professional growth.
• 401k plan and pension schemes.
• Discounted Pet Insurance offering (US only).
• Commuter benefits for in-office employees.

Location

This is a remote-first position available to candidates located in the United States, BC & ON, Canada.

Equal Opportunity

At Webflow, equality is a core tenet of our culture. We are an Equal Opportunity (EEO)/Veterans/Disabled Employer and are committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences.