4 hours ago
Base Salary
$205k - $290k/yr
Responsibilities
- Set the long-term technical vision and architecture for backend systems supporting experimentation, personalization, analytics, and conversion optimization.
- Architect and evolve high-throughput distributed systems and APIs that ingest, process, and serve large volumes of visitor and event data with low latency and high availability.
- Lead foundational platform and data-infrastructure investments that enable future product capabilities.
- Partner with data scientists, ML engineers, and product engineers to productionize statistical and AI/ML capabilities in reliable real-time backend infrastructure.
- Lead complex, multi-team, multi-quarter initiatives from problem framing and technical strategy through implementation, launch, and operational ownership.
- Influence engineering roadmaps and technical strategy across the Convert pillar and partner pillars.
- Raise engineering standards through architecture reviews, technical standards, observability, operational excellence, and long-term quality practices.
- Mentor and grow staff and senior engineers while shaping technical culture.
- Translate product vision into concrete technical problems and execution plans.
Requirements
- A BS or BA college degree or relevant experience is required.
- 12+ years of software engineering experience, including extensive expertise architecting and operating backend and distributed systems at significant scale.
- Strong technical foundation in multiple programming languages such as Python, Java, or Go, with fluency in modern frameworks, distributed-systems patterns, and large-scale system design.
- Experience designing, building, and operating high-throughput, data-intensive distributed systems in production.
- Deep understanding of scalability, fault tolerance, consistency tradeoffs, observability, and performance optimization.
- Demonstrated technical leadership across ambiguous, cross-pillar initiatives and influence beyond an immediate team.
- Ability to partner with product, design, data science, and ML stakeholders to create scalable technical solutions.
- Strong judgment, clear communication with technical and executive audiences, and pragmatic decision-making in fast-moving environments.
- Proactive embrace of AI and willingness to build and apply fluency in emerging technologies.
Benefits
- Equity in the company through RSUs for permanent employees.
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for full-time employees and dependents, with Webflow covering most premiums.
- 12 weeks of paid parental leave for all parents plus 6+ weeks of additional paid leave for birthing parents and inclusive family-planning support.
- Flexible vacation, paid holidays, and a sabbatical program.
- Mental-health resources, therapy, and coaching.
- 401(k) with a 100% employer match up to $6,000 per year in the U.S., plus global retirement-savings support.
- Localized monthly stipends for work and wellness expenses such as Wi-Fi and workouts.
- Eligibility for the annual WIN bonus program for full-time, permanent, non-commission employees.
- Remote-first work arrangement in the United States and in British Columbia and Ontario, Canada; the position is full-time and permanent.
About Webflow
Webflow is the agentic web marketing platform for high-performing brands