Senior Backend Engineer, Assets

Webflow; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 132,000 - 208,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading web development platform is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer for its Assets team, focusing on building an AI-native Digital Asset Manager. This remote role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams and tackling complex technical challenges. Candidates should have 5+ years of experience, strong backend skills in Node.js and Express, and a good understanding of web development best practices. The position offers competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits.

Benefits

Equity ownership (RSUs)

100% employer-paid healthcare

Flexible PTO

Access to mental wellness programs

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience shipping features and products.
• Strong understanding of web development best practices.
• Eager to learn and adapt to new technologies.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to build product capabilities.
• Solve complex technical challenges in a distributed team.
• Build, document, and test production code.

Skills

Node.js

Express

MongoDB

web development best practices

responsive design

accessibility standards

collaboration

debugging

agile environment

Education

BA/BS degree or equivalent experience

Job description

Webflow is the Website Experience Platform ("WXP") that brings development superpowers to everyone. Webflow’s WXP redefines how teams create and collaborate to drive performance, with a single solution providing a visual development environment, a powerful content management system, AI-driven personalization, seamless hosting, and end-to-end analytics. With Webflow, everyone from Fortune 500 marketing teams to independent designers and creative agencies can build, manage, and optimize dynamic web experiences that drive real business results.

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
• Canada (All figures cited below in CAD and pertain to workers in ON & BC, Canada)
• CAD 171,000 - CAD 235,600

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.

Senior Backend Engineer, Assets you’ll…

• Collaborate with designers, PMs, data scientists and engineers to plan and build product capabilities that enable our ambitious visual development goals.
• Tackle complex technical challenges on a collaborative and geographically distributed team.
• Solve problems in a highly technical platform that empowers hundreds of thousands of people.
• Apply web best practices, including performance optimization techniques, accessibility standards and secure data exchange between different domains.
• Build, document, and test production code that impacts all Webflow 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.

In addition to the responsibilities outlined above, at Webflow we will support you in identifying where your interests and development opportunities lie and we'll help you incorporate them into your role.

About you

You’ll thrive as a Senior Backend Engineer, Assets if you…

• Have 5+ years of experience shipping features and products.
• BA/BS degree or equivalent experience
• Have backend development experience with Node.js, Express, and MongoDB.
• Possess strong understanding of web development best practices and principles, including responsive design and accessibility standards.
• Effectively communicate and collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Are eager to learn and adapt to new technologies and tools.
• Love thinking through large technical problems and working through that complexity on a collaborative, distributed team.
• Are comfortable building up a mental model of a product and architecture through reading code and debugging existing software.
• Can debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack.
• Take pride in taking ownership and driving projects to business impact.
• Have consistently communicated trade-offs throughout a project to meet both technical and business requirements.
• Are comfortable working in an agile, safe-to-fail environment.

Even if you don’t meet 100% of the above qualifications, you should still seriously consider applying. Research shows that you may still be considered for a role if you meet just half of the requirements.

Our Core Behaviors:

• Build lasting customer trust. We build trust by taking action that puts customer trust first.
• Win together. We play to win, and we win as one team. Success at Webflow isn\'t a solo act.
• Reinvent ourselves. We don\'t just improve what exists, we imagine what\'s possible.
• Deliver with speed, quality, and craft. We move fast because the moment demands it, and we do so without lowering the bar.

Benefits & wellness

• Equity ownership (RSUs) in a growing, privately-owned company
• 100% employer-paid healthcare, vision, and dental insurance coverage for full-time employees (working 30+ hours per week) and their dependents. Full-time employees may also be eligible for voluntary insurance options where applicable in the respective country of employment
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave for both birthing and non-birthing caregivers, as well as an additional 6-8 weeks of pregnancy disability leave for birthing parents to be used before child bonding leave (note: where local requirements are more generous, employees receive the greater benefit); full-time employees also have access to family planning care and reimbursement
• Flexible PTO for all locations and sabbatical program
• Access to mental wellness and professional coaching, therapy, and Employee Assistance Program
• Monthly stipends to support work and wellness
• 401k plan or pension schemes (in countries where statutorily required), and other financial wellness benefits, like CPA and financial advisor coverage

Equal Opportunity Employer statement: Webflow is an equal opportunity employer committed to building an inclusive global team. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other classification protected by applicable law.