Senior Staff Software Engineer

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United States; BC & ON, CanadaFull-TimeStaff
Salary204,800 - 290,000 USD per year
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Job Details

Experience
12+ years
Required Skills
Backend DevelopmentPythonJavaGoDistributed Systems

Requirements

  • 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
  • Strong technical foundation across multiple programming languages such as Python, Java, or Go
  • Deep fluency in modern frameworks, distributed systems patterns, and large-scale system design
  • Experience building and operating high-throughput, data-intensive distributed systems in production
  • Understanding of scalability, fault tolerance, consistency tradeoffs, observability, and performance optimization
  • Demonstrated technical leadership across ambiguous, cross-pillar initiatives
  • Effective partnership skills with product, design, data science, and ML stakeholders
  • Strong judgment and clear communication with both technical and executive audiences
  • Proactive embrace of AI and emerging technologies

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.
  • Lead foundational platform investments and the data infrastructure that supports them.
  • Partner closely with data scientists, ML engineers, and product engineers to productionize statistical and AI/ML capabilities.
  • Lead complex, multi-team, multi-quarter technical initiatives end-to-end.
  • Influence the engineering roadmap and technical strategy across the Convert pillar and partner pillars.
  • Raise the engineering bar across the org through architecture review, technical standards, and operational excellence practices.
  • Mentor and grow staff and senior engineers.
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