Senior Backend Engineer, Access Control

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Requirements:

• Have 5+ years developing and deploying web applications, with a proven track record of shipping code.
• Are familiar with Node.js and TypeScript and can write scalable services and APIs using technologies like Express.js and MongoDB.
• Can debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack.
• Proven experience building complex web systems.
• Experience with testing frameworks (e.g. Jest, Mocha, Playwright, Cypress).
• Are comfortable working in an agile, safe-to-fail, environment.

Responsibilities:

• Architect, design, and implement scalable multi-tenant backend services and APIs.
• Work on technologies such as Node.js, Javascript/Typescript, MongoDB, GraphQL, Apollo, Amazon Web Services EC2, S3, Lambdas, Kafka, and more.
• Contribute to building and executing on functional strategy.
• Lead projects that directly contribute to team and engineering organization's deliverables.
• Produce and elevate the quality of maintainable, tested, performant, and scalable code.
• Author, collaborate on, and evaluate design documents.
• Influence technical designs and team-level prioritization as well as participate in technical solutions.
• Collaborate with product managers and designers in an autonomous, supportive team environment.
• Mentor junior engineering in technical skills and Webflow culture.
• Participate in engineering citizenship activities such as co-authoring engineering blogs, strengthening and improving our hiring processes, and leading internal hackathon teams.