Staff Backend Engineer, Webflow
Developer Platform
$168.6-260.6k
Salary dependent on location and applicable to US candidates only. Salary for ON- and BC-based candidates as follows: CAD 217,000 - CAD 296,350. Plus equity
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No-code web design and hosting platform
Open for applications
No-code web design and hosting platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$168.6-260.6k
Salary dependent on location and applicable to US candidates only. Salary for ON- and BC-based candidates as follows: CAD 217,000 - CAD 296,350. Plus equity
More information about location
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
- We’re looking for people passionate about distilling complexity across a breadth of problems & help in building the next generation Developer Platform & redefining the future of APIs at Webflow
- You love the idea of developing for a technical developer audience
- Have 7+ years of experience shipping features and products, with a focus on backend systems at scale
- Have 3+ years developing APIs that are leveraged by an external audience
- Are familiar with Node.js and TypeScript 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
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Staff Backend Engineer to help spearhead the technical vision of how we can build a best in class platform for apps and integrations allow Webflow developers to easily design, launch and manage any website they can dream of
- Reporting to the Senior Engineering Manager
- 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
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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