Remote Senior Backend Engineer Job in United States Webflow

Who you are

• Developing for a technical developer audience.
• 5+ years of experience shipping features and products with a focus on backend systems at scale.
• 2+ years developing APIs that are leveraged by an external audience.
• Familiarity with Node.js and ability to write scalable services and APIs using Express.js and MongoDB.
• Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack.
• Comfortable building a mental model of a product and architecture through reading code and debugging existing software.
• Takes pride in ownership and driving projects to business impact.
• Deep understanding of data design and modeling.
• Communicating trade-offs throughout a project to meet both technical and business requirements.
• Comfortable working in an agile safe-to-fail environment.

Desirables

• Node.js proficiency
• MongoDB expertise
• Agile environment
• Distributed teams

What the job involves

• Collaborate with designers product managers and engineers to plan and build product capabilities that allow third party developers to extend Webflow's functionality with Webflow Apps.
• Have deep experience with API development at scale bringing experience to the team that levels up our practices.
• Deep familiarity with authentication / authorization best practices.
• Solve problems in a highly technical platform that empowers hundreds of developers and hundreds of thousands of customers.
• Participate in all engineering activities including incident response interviewing designing and reviewing technical specifications code review and releasing new functionality.
• Improve our planning development and deployment processes to help you and your fellow team members.
• Tackle complex technical challenges on a collaborative and geographically distributed team.

Application process

• Valid right to work authorization in the country of employment
• Background check upon offer completion