Senior Backend Engineer, Assets

About the Role

Join the Assets team to build a next-generation, AI-native Digital Asset Manager (DAM), a core component of Webflow’s Website Experience Platform. This is a zero-to-one opportunity to solve challenging problems and make a high impact in the early stages of product development, integrating asset workflows to enable enterprise-scale content management.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with designers, product managers, data scientists, and engineers to plan and build product capabilities for visual development goals.
• Tackle complex technical challenges within a collaborative, geographically distributed team.
• Apply web best practices, including performance optimization, accessibility standards, and secure data exchange.
• Build, document, and test production code that impacts all Webflow customers.
• Participate in all engineering activities, including incident response, interviewing, technical design, code review, and releasing new functionality.
• Improve planning, development, and deployment processes to enhance team efficiency.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience shipping features and products.
• Backend development experience with Node.js, Express, and MongoDB.
• Strong understanding of web development best practices and principles, including responsive design and accessibility standards.
• Ability to effectively communicate and collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Eagerness to learn and adapt to new technologies and tools.
• Passion for thinking through large technical problems and navigating complexity within a distributed team.
• Comfort in building mental models of products and architectures through code reading and debugging.
• Capability to debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack.
• Proven ownership and drive in delivering projects with business impact.
• Experience consistently communicating trade-offs to meet both technical and business requirements.

About the Team

The Assets team is building a startup within a startup, focused on a critical component of Webflow’s WXP vision. Our mission is to integrate scattered critical assets (images, video, PDFs) into a unified platform, enabling customers to manage content at enterprise scale while maintaining fast, on-brand creation.