Senior Backend Engineer, Assets
At Webflow, we’re building the world’s leading AI-native Digital Experience Platform, and we’re doing it as a remote-first company built on trust, transparency, and a whole lot of creativity. This work takes grit, because we move fast, without ever sacrificing craft or quality. Our mission is to bring development superpowers to everyone. From entrepreneurs launching their first idea to global enterprises scaling their digital presence, we empower teams to design, launch, and optimize for the web without barriers. We believe the future of the web, and work, is more open, more creative, and more equitable. And we’re here to build it together.
The Assets team is building a next-generation, AI-native Digital Asset Manager (DAM) as a core component of Webflow’s WXP vision. Today, critical assets (images, video, PDFs) are scattered across tools and teams, making reuse, governance, organization, and performance insights hard. The Webflow DAM integrates these asset workflows with the overarching WXP platform, enabling customers to manage their content at enterprise scale while keeping creation fast and on-brand.
We’re a zero-to-one team building a startup within a startup. We’re looking for a Senior Engineer who’s excited to solve challenging problems to address emerging customer needs and behaviors. The ideal candidate can move fast but with high quality, and views the early stages of product development as a creative canvas and opportunity for high impact. If that’s you, we’d love to talk.
About the role:
- Location: Remote-first (United States; BC & ON, Canada)
- Full-time
- Permanent
- Exemption status
The cash compensation for this role is tailored to align with the cost of labor in different geographic markets. We've structured the base pay ranges for this role into zones for our geographic markets, and the specific base pay within the range will be determined by the candidate’s geographic location, job-related experience, knowledge, qualifications, and skills.
- Zone A: $150,100 - $207,100
- Zone B: $141,550 - $194,800
- Zone C: $132,050 - $182,400
- CAD 171,000 - CAD 235,600
This role is also eligible to participate in Webflow's company-wide bonus program. Target amounts are a percentage of base salary and vary by career level. Payouts are based on company performance against established financial and operational goals.
As a Senior Backend Engineer, Assets you’ll…
- Collaborate with designers, PMs, data scientists and engineers to plan and build product capabilities that enable our ambitious visual development goals.
- 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.
- Tackle complex technical challenges on a collaborative and geographically distributed team.
- Solve problems in a highly technical platform that empowers hundreds of thousands of people.
- Apply web best practices, including performance optimization techniques, accessibility standards and secure data exchange between different domains.
- Build, document, and test production code that impacts all Webflow 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.
About you
You’ll thrive as a Senior Backend Engineer, Assets if you…
- Have 5+ years of experience shipping features and products.
- BA/BS degree or equivalent experience
- Have backend development experience with Node.js, Express, and MongoDB.
- Possess strong understanding of web development best practices and principles, including responsive design and accessibility standards.
- Effectively communicate and collaborate with cross-functional teams.
- Are eager to learn and adapt to new technologies and tools.
- 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.
- Can debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack.
- Take pride in taking ownership and driving projects to business impact.
- 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.
Even if you don’t meet 100% of the above qualifications, you should still seriously consider applying. Research shows that you may still be considered for a role if you meet just half of the requirements.
Benefits
- Ownership in what you help build. Every permanent Webflower receives equity (RSUs) in our growing, privately held company.
- Health coverage that actually covers you. Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans for full-time employees and their dependents, with Webflow covering most premiums.
- Support for every stage of family life. 12 weeks of paid parental leave for all parents and 6+ weeks of additional paid leave for birthing parents. Plus inclusive care for family planning, menopause, and midlife transitions.
- Time off that’s actually off. Flexible vacation, paid holidays, and a sabbatical program to help you recharge and come back inspired.
- Wellness for the whole you. Access to mental health resources, therapy and coaching.
- Invest in your future. A 401(k) with 100% employer match (up to $6,000/year) in the U.S., and support for retirement savings globally.
- Monthly stipends that flex with your life. Localized support for work and wellness expenses — from Wi-Fi to workouts.
- Bonus for building together. All full-time, permanent, non-commission employees are eligible for our annual WIN bonus program.
Remote, together
At Webflow, equality is a core tenet of our culture. We are an Equal Opportunity (EEO)/Veterans/Disabled Employer.
