Senior Staff Backend Architect — Remote

Webflow; United States; On-site; USD 232,000 - 290,000; Full time

Job summary

Webflow is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to set the long-term technical vision for backend systems powering experimentation, personalization, analytics, and conversion optimization across Webflow.

You will architect high-throughput distributed services, ingest and process large volumes of event data with low latency, and collaborate with data science and product teams to productionize AI capabilities into reliable real-time infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Set the long-term technical vision and architecture for backend systems powering experimentation, personalization, analytics, and conversion optimization across Webflow.
• Architect and evolve high-throughput distributed systems and APIs that ingest, process, and serve large volumes of visitor and event data with low latency, high availability, and strong consistency guarantees where it matters.
• Lead foundational platform investments and the data infrastructure that supports them, that unlock new product capabilities for years to come.
• Partner closely with data scientists, ML engineers, and product engineers to productionize statistical and AI/ML capabilities into reliable, real-time backend infrastructure.
• Lead complex, multi-team, multi-quarter technical initiatives end-to-end: from problem framing and technical strategy through implementation, launch, and long-term operational ownership.
• Influence the engineering roadmap and technical strategy across the Convert

Job description

Webflow is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to set the long-term technical vision for backend systems powering experimentation, personalization, analytics, and conversion optimization across Webflow.

You will architect high-throughput distributed services, ingest and process large volumes of event data with low latency, and collaborate with data science and product teams to productionize AI capabilities into reliable real-time infrastructure.