Staff Software Engineer, Assets - Distributed Systems

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 Staff 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: San Francisco HQ, US Remote, or ON/BC, Canada
• Full-time 
• Permanent
• Reporting to the Engineering Manager
• 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 are in USD and pertain to workers in the United States)
• Zone A: $175,800 - $247,700
• Zone B: $164,500 - $232,200
• Zone C: $154,200 - $217,600
• Canada (All figures cited below in CAD and pertain to workers in ON & BC, Canada)
• CAD 199,300 - CAD 281,100

As a backend-leaning Staff Fullstack Engineer, you’ll: 

• Architect, design, and implement accessible user interfaces, scalable data architectures, distributed tasks, and API endpoints.
• 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.
• Improve reliability and scalability by contributing to distributed backend systems, including concurrent, synchronous, and asynchronous processes, and evolving eventually-consistent algorithms.
• Leverage state-of-the-art AI tools to enhance your impact.
• Coordinate projects that directly impact team and engineering organization's deliverables.
• Drive architectural solutions for our team and shape technical approaches across Webflow engineering. 
• Lead with technical expertise and guidance that strengthens multiple teams and drives progress on the engineering organization’s strategy.
• Produce and elevate the quality of maintainable, tested, performant, and scalable code.
• Author and collaborate on design documents and influence pillar-level technical priorities.
• Foster an inclusive environment that motivates and empowers teammates to do their best work.
• Collaborate with product managers and designers in an autonomous, supportive team environment.
• Mentor other engineers in technical skills, best practices, and quality.
• Participate in engineering citizenship activities such as co-authoring engineering blogs, strengthening and improving our hiring processes, and leading internal hackathon teams.

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 in this role if you:

• Bring 7+ years of experience developing and deploying complex web applications, with a track record of delivering high-quality, performant code.
• BA/BS degree or equivalent experience
• Skilled with modern web technologies, including web browsers, Node.js and TypeScript and experienced building user interfaces and scalable APIs using React, Express.js, and MongoDB.
• Curious and motivated by complex challenges, with a commitment to finding though