Staff Software Engineer, Assets - Distributed Systems

About the Role

Join the Assets team as a Staff Software Engineer to build a next-generation, AI-native Digital Asset Manager (DAM) within Webflow’s Website Experience Platform. This is a zero-to-one opportunity to solve challenging problems, address emerging customer needs, and make a high impact in the early stages of product development.

About the Assets Team

The Assets team is building a core component of Webflow’s WXP vision. Today, critical assets (images, video, PDFs) are often scattered, making reuse, governance, organization, and performance insights difficult. 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Coordinate projects that directly impact team and engineering organization's deliverables.
• Drive architectural solutions for our team and shape technical approaches across Webflow engineering.
• Lead with technical expertise and guidance that strengthens multiple teams and drives progress on the engineering organization’s strategy.
• Produce and elevate the quality of maintainable, tested, performant, and scalable code.
• Author and collaborate on design documents and influence pillar-level technical priorities.
• 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.
• Mentor other engineers in technical skills, best practices, and quality.
• Participate in engineering citizenship activities such as co-authoring engineering blogs, strengthening and improving our hiring processes, and leading internal hackathon teams.

Requirements

• 7+ 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, and MongoDB.
• Curious and motivated by complex challenges, with a commitment to finding thoughtful, scalable solutions.
• Able to debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack.
• Experienced in designing and evolving complex web systems that balance reliability, performance, and maintainability.
• Familiar with testing frameworks such as Jest, Mocha, Playwright, and Cypress.
• Finds energy in highly collaborative, cross-functional environments, working closely with engineers, designers, and product managers.
• Comfortable working in an agile, iterative, and supportive environment, clarifying ambiguous requirements and designing well-scoped solutions.
• Values mentorship, knowledge-sharing, and empowering teammates to do their best work.
• Committed to inclusive practices, whether in coding standards, design discussions, or strengthening team culture.