Senior Backend Engineer, Assets

At Webflow, we're building the world's leading AI-native Digital Experience Platform, and we're doing it as a remote-first company built on trust, transparency, and a whole lot of creativity. This work takes grit, because we move fast, without ever sacrificing craft or quality. Our mission is to bring development superpowers to everyone. From entrepreneurs launching their first idea to global enterprises scaling their digital presence, we empower teams to design, launch, and optimize for the web without barriers. We believe the future of the web, and work, is more open, more creative, and more equitable. And we're here to build it together. The Assets team is building a next-generation, AI-native Digital Asset Manager (DAM) as a core component of Webflow's WXP vision. Today, critical assets (images, video, PDFs) are scattered across tools and teams, making reuse, governance, organization, and performance insights hard. The Webflow DAM integrates these asset workflows with the overarching WXP platform, enabling customers to manage their content at enterprise scale while keeping creation fast and on-brand. We're a zero-to-one team building a startup within a startup. We're looking for a Senior Engineer who's excited to solve challenging problems to address emerging customer needs and behaviors. The ideal candidate can move fast but with high quality, and views the early stages of product development as a creative canvas and opportunity for high impact. If that's you, we'd love to talk. About the role: • Location: Remote-first (United States; BC & ON, Canada) • Full-time • Permanent • Exemption status • The cash compensation for this role is tailored to align with the cost of labor in different geographic markets. We've structured the base pay ranges for this role into zones for our geographic markets, and the specific base pay within the range will be determined by the candidate's geographic location, job-related experience, knowledge, qualifications, and skills. • Zone A: $150,100 - $207,100 • Zone B: $141,550 - $194,800 • Zone C: $132,050 - $182,400 • CAD 171,000 - CAD 235,600 • United States (all figures cited below in USD and pertain to workers in the United States) • Canada (All figures cited below in CAD and pertain to workers in ON & BC, Canada) 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. Payouts are based on company performance against established financial and operational goals. Please visit our Careers page for more information on which locations are included in each of our geographic pay zones. However, please confirm the zone for your specific location with your recruiter. • Application Information: • Application deadline: applications accepted on an ongoing basis until position is closed and filled • This posting is for an existing vacancy As a Senior Backend Engineer, Assets you'll... • Architect, design, and implement accessible user interfaces, scalable data architectures, distributed tasks, and API endpoints. • Co-create new and improved functionality across multiple areas of the Webflow technology stack using technologies such as React, Javascript/Typescript, HTML, CSS, Node.js, and MongoDB. • Improve reliability and scalability by contributing to distributed backend systems, including concurrent, synchronous, and asynchronous processes, and evolving eventually-consistent algorithms. • Leverage state-of-the-art AI tools to enhance your impact. • Own definition and delivery of well-scoped projects that contribute to the Assets team's deliverables. • Contribute to architectural decisions within the Assets team and help evaluate technical tradeoffs for team projects. • Bring technical expertise that strengthens the Assets team and contribute to our team's technical direction. • Produce and elevate the quality of maintainable, tested, performant, and scalable code. • Author and collaborate on design documents for team-level initiatives. • Foster an inclusive environment that motivates and empowers teammates to do their best work. • Collaborate with product managers and designers in an autonomous, supportive team environment. • Support teammates through code review, pairing, and knowledge-sharing to raise the bar on engineering quality. • Participate in engineering citizenship activities such as co-authoring engineering blogs, strengthening and improving our hiring processes, and leading internal hackathon teams. About you You'll thrive as a Senior Backend Engineer, Assets if you... • Bring 5+ years of experience developing and deploying complex web applications, with a track record of delivering high-quality, performant code. • BA/BS degree or equivalent experience • Skilled with modern web technologies, including web browsers, Node.js and TypeScript and experienced building user interfaces and scalable APIs using React, Express.js, an