Senior Staff Software Engineer

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WebflowWeb marketing
Remote-first (United States; BC & ON, Canada)Full-TimeStaff
SalaryUnited States (all figures cited below are in USD and pertain to workers in the United States): Zone A: $232,000 - $290,000; Zone B: $217,600 - $272,000; Zone C: $204,800 - $256,000. Canada (figures cited below are in CAD and pertain to workers in ON & BC, Canada): $253,000 - $316,000. 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.
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Job Details

Experience
12+ years of software engineering experience
Required Skills
PythonJavaGoRESTful APIsDistributed Systems

Requirements

  • Hold a BS/BA college degree or have relevant experience.
  • Have 12+ years of software engineering experience, including extensive expertise architecting and operating backend and distributed systems at significant scale.
  • Bring a strong technical foundation across multiple programming languages such as Python, Java, or Go.
  • Have deep fluency in modern frameworks, distributed systems patterns, and large-scale system design.
  • Have designed, built, and operated high-throughput, data-intensive distributed systems in production.
  • Understand scalability, fault tolerance, consistency tradeoffs, observability, and performance optimization.
  • Demonstrate technical leadership across ambiguous, cross-pillar initiatives, influencing architecture, execution, and engineering strategy.
  • Partner effectively with product, design, data science, and ML stakeholders to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions.
  • Apply sound judgment and make pragmatic tradeoffs in fast-moving environments.
  • Proactively build and apply fluency in AI and emerging technologies.

Responsibilities

  • Set the long-term technical vision and architecture for backend systems powering experimentation, personalization, analytics, and conversion optimization.
  • Architect and evolve high-throughput distributed systems and APIs that process visitor and event data with low latency and high availability.
  • Lead foundational platform investments and data infrastructure that support future product capabilities.
  • Partner with data scientists, ML engineers, and product engineers to productionize statistical and AI/ML capabilities in real-time backend infrastructure.
  • Lead complex, multi-team, multi-quarter technical initiatives from problem framing and strategy through launch and operational ownership.
  • Influence engineering roadmaps and technical strategy across the Convert pillar and partner pillars.
  • Raise engineering standards through architecture review, observability, operational excellence practices, and supporting tools.
  • Mentor and grow staff and senior engineers.
  • Translate product vision into concrete technical problems and execution plans.
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United States (all figures cited below are in USD and pertain to workers in the United States): Zone A: $232,000 - $290,000; Zone B: $217,600 - $272,000; Zone C: $204,800 - $256,000. Canada (figures cited below are in CAD and pertain to workers in ON & BC, Canada): $253,000 - $316,000. 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.
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