Staff Software Engineer – Workflows, Distributed Systems

August 28

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SaaS • Web 3 • eCommerce

Webflow is a company that provides a visual web development platform to design and build professional websites without code. It enables designers to create and customize websites using a drag-and-drop interface and a powerful CMS, generating clean, production-ready code in the process. Webflow caters to web designers, developers, and businesses looking to streamline their web development process and improve collaboration between teams. Its platform is suited to creating responsive websites tailored to mobile, tablet, and desktop devices, offering a comprehensive solution for users needing creative and technical flexibility in web design.

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2013

☁️ SaaS

🌐 Web 3

🛍️ eCommerce

💰 $120M Series C on 2022-03

📋 Description

• Architect, design, and implement accessible user interfaces, scalable data architectures, distributed tasks, and API endpoints. • Co-create new and improved functionality across multiple areas of the Webflow technology stack using technologies such as React, Javascript/Typescript, HTML, CSS, Node.js, and MongoDB. • Improve reliability and scalability by contributing to distributed backend systems, including concurrent, synchronous, and asynchronous processes, and evolving eventually-consistent algorithms. • Leverage state-of-the-art AI tools to enhance your impact. • Coordinate projects that directly impact team and engineering organization's deliverables. • Drive architectural solutions for our team and shape technical approaches across Webflow engineering. • Lead with technical expertise and guidance that strengthens multiple teams and drives progress on the engineering organization’s strategy. • Produce and elevate the quality of maintainable, tested, performant, and scalable code. • Author and collaborate on design documents and influence pillar-level technical priorities. • Foster an inclusive environment that motivates and empowers teammates to do their best work. • Collaborate with product managers and designers in an autonomous, supportive team environment. • Mentor other engineers in technical skills, best practices, and quality. • Participate in engineering citizenship activities such as co-authoring engineering blogs, strengthening and improving our hiring processes, and leading internal hackathon teams.

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of experience developing and deploying complex web applications, with a track record of delivering high-quality, performant code. • Skilled with modern web technologies, including web browsers, Node.js and TypeScript and experienced building user interfaces and scalable APIs using React, Express.js, and MongoDB. • Curious and motivated by complex challenges, with a commitment to finding thoughtful, scalable solutions. • Able to debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack. • Experienced in designing and evolving complex web systems that balance reliability, performance, and maintainability. • Familiar with testing frameworks such as Jest, Mocha, Playwright, and Cypress. • Find energy in highly collaborative, cross-functional environments, working closely with engineers, designers, and product managers • Comfortable working in an agile, iterative, and supportive environment, clarifying ambiguous requirements and designing well-scoped solutions. • Value mentorship, knowledge-sharing, and empowering teammates to do their best work. • Committed to inclusive practices, whether in coding standards, design discussions, or strengthening team culture.

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity ownership (RSUs) in a growing, privately-owned company. • 100% employer-paid healthcare, vision, and dental insurance coverage for employees and dependents (full-time employees working 30+ hours per week), as well as Health Savings Account/Health Reimbursement Account, dependent care Flexible Spending Account (US only), dependent on insurance plan selection where applicable in the respective country of employment; Employees may also have voluntary insurance options, such as life, disability, hospital protection, accident, and critical illness where applicable in the respective country of employment • 12 weeks of paid parental leave for both birthing and non-birthing caregivers, as well as an additional 6-8 weeks of pregnancy disability for birthing parents to be used before child bonding leave (where local requirements are more generous employees receive the greater benefit); Employees also have access to family planning care and reimbursement • Flexible PTO with a mandatory annual minimum of 10 days paid time off for all locations (where local requirements are more generous employees receive the greater benefit), and sabbatical program • Access to mental wellness and professional coaching, therapy, and Employee Assistance Program • Monthly stipends to support health and wellness, smart work, and professional growth • Professional career coaching, internal learning & development programs • 401k plan and pension schemes (in countries where statutorily required) financial wellness benefits, like CPA or financial advisor coverage • Discounted Pet Insurance offering (US only) • Commuter benefits for in-office employees