Staff Backend Engineer
Description For Staff Backend Engineer
Webflow is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to join their Enterprise Workflows team, focusing on building and maintaining collaboration features for larger teams. This role combines technical leadership with hands-on development, requiring expertise in Node.js, TypeScript, and MongoDB. The position offers a competitive salary range of $164,000-$263,500 USD, depending on location, along with comprehensive benefits including equity, healthcare, and flexible PTO.
The ideal candidate will have 7+ years of experience in web application development and a proven track record of leading technical initiatives and mentoring team members. You'll be responsible for architecting scalable multi-tenant backend services, implementing APIs, and contributing to the team's technical strategy. The role emphasizes both technical excellence and leadership, requiring someone who can balance coding with mentoring and strategic planning.
Webflow's culture is built on core behaviors including customer obsession, urgency in execution, honest communication, and making impactful contributions. The company offers a flexible work environment with options for remote work in the US and Canada, supporting a healthy work-life balance through comprehensive benefits and wellness programs.
This is an excellent opportunity for a senior technical leader who wants to shape the future of web development while working with modern technologies in a collaborative, growth-oriented environment. The role offers significant impact potential in a company that's transforming how websites are built, making web development more accessible to millions of users worldwide.
Responsibilities For Staff Backend Engineer
- Architect, design, and implement scalable multi-tenant backend services and APIs
- 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
- Mentor junior engineering in technical skills and Webflow culture
- Collaborate with product managers and designers
- Participate in engineering citizenship activities
Requirements For Staff Backend Engineer
- 7+ years developing and deploying web applications
- Familiar with Node.js and TypeScript
- Experience writing scalable services and APIs using Express.js and MongoDB
- Experience leading and mentoring other software engineers
- Ability to debug production issues across services
- Proven experience building complex web systems
- Experience with testing frameworks (Jest, Mocha, Playwright, Cypress)
- Comfortable working in an agile environment
Benefits For Staff Backend Engineer
- Equity ownership (RSUs)
- 100% employer-paid healthcare, vision, and dental insurance
- 12 weeks paid parental leave
- Flexible PTO with minimum 10 days
- Mental wellness and professional coaching
- Monthly stipends for health, wellness, and professional growth
- 401k plan and pension schemes
- Professional career coaching
- Commuter benefits for in-office employees
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