2 hours ago
Remote, United States or Remote, CanadaStaff+
Base Salary
$187k - $255k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect, design, and evolve backend systems, platform services, and APIs using Python and related technologies.
- Partner with data scientists and machine learning engineers to productionize AI/ML capabilities and integrate models into reliable backend infrastructure.
- Design and scale distributed systems that process large data volumes with strong performance, availability, and operational excellence.
- Build secure, resilient data storage and retrieval systems focused on data integrity, privacy, governance, and access control.
- Own work across the product lifecycle from concept exploration and technical design through implementation, launch, and production operations.
- Lead complex cross-team technical initiatives that influence roadmap execution, architecture, and engineering strategy.
- Write maintainable, well-tested, observable code and improve systems, tooling, standards, and development workflows.
- Mentor engineers and raise the engineering bar through code review, technical guidance, and best-practice sharing.
Requirements
- BA/BS degree or equivalent experience; a bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 7+ years of software engineering experience, including deep backend engineering and distributed-systems expertise at scale.
- Strong software design and development foundation with experience in languages such as Python, Java, or Go.
- Experience designing, building, and operating reliable distributed systems and data-intensive production services.
- Strong understanding of scalability, fault tolerance, observability, performance optimization, API design, service-oriented architecture, asynchronous processing, and data modeling.
- Experience building secure systems and implementing robust data integrity, privacy, and access-control practices.
- Hands-on coding experience and the ability to lead through implementation rather than direction-setting alone.
- Demonstrated technical leadership across ambiguous, cross-functional initiatives and influence on architecture, execution, and engineering strategy.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with product, design, data, and ML stakeholders to develop scalable technical solutions.
- Experience with code review, technical mentorship, engineering-quality improvement, and ideally hiring or team-building efforts.
- Clear communication, strong judgment, pragmatic tradeoff-making, curiosity, and willingness to build fluency in emerging technologies and AI.
Benefits
- Remote-first role available in the United States and British Columbia or Ontario, Canada; full-time, permanent, and exempt.
- Base compensation is provided in geographic zones: United States USD ranges of 186,700–224,000, 200,000–240,000, or 212,500–255,000, and Canada CAD range of 232,000–278,000.
- Eligibility for Webflow's company-wide annual bonus program.
- Equity in the form of RSUs for permanent Webflow employees.
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with most premiums covered for full-time employees and dependents.
- 12 weeks of paid parental leave for all parents and at least 6 additional weeks for birthing parents, plus family-planning and related support.
- Flexible vacation, paid holidays, and a sabbatical program.
- Mental-health resources, therapy, and coaching.
- 401(k) with 100% employer match up to $6,000 per year in the United States, plus global retirement-savings support.
- Localized monthly stipends for work and wellness expenses, including Wi-Fi and fitness.
- Annual WIN bonus eligibility for full-time, permanent, non-commission employees.
About Webflow
Webflow provides a visual web development platform for designers and marketing teams to build responsive websites without code, with an integrated CMS, secure hosting, and e‑commerce features. It sells subscription plans for individuals, teams, and enterprises, and supports workflows from design and content editing to publishing, with templates and integrations. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company is privately held.