Backend Engineer, Webflow
Applied AI
$121.2-179.1k
Salary applicable to US applicants only, for Canadian applicants the salary range is $156,400 CAD - $203,250 CAD. + Equity for all locations
No-code web design and hosting platform
Job no longer available
No-code web design and hosting platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$121.2-179.1k
Salary applicable to US applicants only, for Canadian applicants the salary range is $156,400 CAD - $203,250 CAD. + Equity for all locations
1001+ employees
Company mission
To give creative designers the tools they need to create powerful and beautiful websites, all without having to code.
Role
Who you are
- Have 2+ years developing and deploying web applications. Bonus points if you have experience shipping 0-1 products!
- Have experience building products that depend critically on AI/ML
- Are proficient in Javascript and are familiar with one or more Javascript type systems
- Are familiar with AI concepts and technologies, including large language models, fine tuning, vector databases and prompt engineering
- Have excellent organization and communication skills, both verbal and written
- Have worked on complex issues where the analysis requires an in-depth knowledge of existing architecture
- Can debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack
- Are comfortable working in an agile, safe-to-fail environment
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Software Engineer to join our Applied AI team to help us build generative AI-powered features
- The Applied AI team’s goal is to enhance the speed, creativity, and quality when building and designing websites through the power of AI, in pursuit of our mission to bring development superpowers to everyone around the world
- This role will collaborate directly with product and ML engineers, product managers and designers to identify and implement AI solutions that improve the Webflow user experience, while cultivating an environment of excellence, care, and curiosity
- Stay up-to-date on AI/ML advancements to assess their relevance for the organization's strategy
- Collaborate with product engineering to identify and implement AI solutions that improve user experience and solve specific use cases
- Develop and maintain APIs that integrate AI models and algorithms
- Implement AI-driven features based on large language models, diffusion models, etc
- Assist in developing and integrating third-party AI APIs into the product's architecture
- Develop a deep understanding of our architecture and codebase while also learning about our product and the customers that use it
- Build and maintain unit and integration tests
- 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
Otta's take
Xav Kearney
CTO of Otta
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.
Insights
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 values
- Obsess over customer experience
- Move with heartfel urgency
- Say the hard thing with care
- Make your mark
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Founders
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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