Senior Backend Engineer, Assets
WebflowAbout the role
Webflow is the Website Experience Platform (“WXP”) that brings development superpowers to everyone. More than 300,000 brands and 3.5M users leverage Webflow to bring their brand to life on the web. Weblow’s WXP redefines how teams create and collaborate to drive performance, with a single solution providing a visual development environment, a powerful content management system, AI-driven personalization, seamless hosting, and end-to-end analytics. With Webflow, everyone from Fortune 500 marketing teams to independent designers and creative agencies can build, manage, and optimize dynamic web experiences that drive real business results.
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.
- United States (all figures cited below in USD and pertain to workers in the United States)
- Zone A: $150,100 - $207,100
- Zone B: $141,550 - $194,800
- Zone C: $132,050 - $182,400
- Canada (All figures cited below in CAD and pertain to workers in ON & BC, Canada)
- 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.
Please visit our Careers page for more information on which locations are included in each of our geographic pay zones. However, please confirm the zone for your specific location with your recruiter.
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.
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.
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
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