Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Webflow is the agentic web marketing platform for modern marketing teams, helping organizations build, manage, and optimize high-performing web experiences. The Senior Staff Software Engineer will lead the technical future of Convert by defining backend architecture, building distributed systems and data infrastructure, productionizing AI/ML capabilities, and driving multi-team technical initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Set the long-term technical vision and architecture for backend systems powering experimentation, personalization, analytics, and conversion optimization across Webflow
- Architect and evolve high-throughput distributed systems and APIs that ingest, process, and serve large volumes of visitor and event data with low latency, high availability, and strong consistency guarantees where it matters
- Lead foundational platform investments and the data infrastructure that supports them, that unlock new product capabilities for years to come
- Partner closely with data scientists, ML engineers, and product engineers to productionize statistical and AI/ML capabilities into reliable, real-time backend infrastructure
- Lead complex, multi-team, multi-quarter technical initiatives end-to-end: from problem framing and technical strategy through implementation, launch, and long-term operational ownership
- Influence the engineering roadmap and technical strategy across the Convert pillar and partner pillars, identifying the highest-leverage investments and aligning teams behind them
- Raise the engineering bar across the org through architecture review, technical standards, observability and operational excellence practices, and the systems and tooling that support long-term quality
- Mentor and grow staff and senior engineers, multiplying your impact through the people you develop and the technical culture you help shape
- Stay current with industry trends in distributed systems, experimentation platforms, real-time data, and AI/ML infrastructure, and proactively identify opportunities to advance Webflow's backend platform and engineering practices
- Translate product vision into concrete technical problems and execution plans
Skills
- BS / BA college degree or relevant experience
- 12+ years of software engineering experience, including extensive expertise architecting and operating backend systems and distributed systems at significant scale
- Have a strong technical foundation across multiple programming languages such as Python, Java, or Go, with deep fluency in modern frameworks, distributed systems patterns, and large-scale system design
- Have designed, built, and operated high-throughput, data-intensive distributed systems in production — with deep understanding of scalability, fault tolerance, consistency tradeoffs, observability, and performance optimization
- Have demonstrated technical leadership across ambiguous, cross-pillar initiatives, influencing architecture, execution, and engineering strategy well beyond your immediate team
- Partner effectively with product, design, data science, and ML stakeholders to translate evolving business needs and customer outcomes into scalable technical solutions
- Bring strong judgment, communicate clearly with both technical and executive audiences, and make pragmatic tradeoffs in fast-moving environments
- Demonstrate a proactive embrace of AI, and actively building and applying fluency in emerging technologies to elevate how we work, drive faster outcomes, and expand collective impact
- Stay curious and open to growth — demonstrating a proactive embrace of AI, and actively building and applying fluency in emerging technologies to elevate how we work, drive faster outcomes, and expand collective impact
- To join Webflow, you'll need a valid right to work authorization depending on the country of employment
Benefits
- Every permanent Webflower receives equity (RSUs) in our growing, privately held company.
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans for full-time employees and their dependents, with Webflow covering most premiums.
- 12 weeks of paid parental leave for all parents and 6+ weeks of additional paid leave for birthing parents.
- Inclusive care for family planning, menopause, and midlife transitions.
- Flexible vacation, paid holidays, and a sabbatical program.
- Access to mental health resources, therapy and coaching.
- A 401(k) with 100% employer match (up to $6,000/year) in the U.S., and support for retirement savings globally.
- Localized monthly support for work and wellness expenses — from Wi-Fi to workouts.
- All full-time, permanent, non-commission employees are eligible for our annual WIN bonus program.
- Remote-first work arrangement.
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