Webflow is building the world’s leading AI-native Digital Experience Platform as a remote-first company focused on creativity and quality. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Developer Tooling to enhance the developer experience by building platform primitives, APIs, and tooling for Webflow Cloud.
Responsibilities:
- Work across infrastructure, backend services, CLI tooling, and dashboard interfaces to deliver cohesive platform capabilities
- Drive architectural decisions that balance scalability, security, and developer experience
- Build APIs and internal systems that abstract complex infrastructure into simple, developer-friendly workflows
- Implement and maintain edge compute or middleware capabilities for request handling, authentication, and response transformation
- Architect reliable, scalable, and performant compute infrastructure to support high levels of parallel builds and deployments
- Implement observability across the build pipeline (metrics, tracing, logging) to diagnose bottlenecks and improve system resilience
Requirements:
- BS / BA college degree or relevant experience
- 5+ years of experience shipping features and products
- Development experience with AWS, Cloudflare, Node.js, and MongoDB
- Passionate about building developer platforms and tooling, especially focused on building and hosting modern web frameworks
- Effectively communicate and collaborate with cross-functional teams
- Love thinking through large technical problems and working through that complexity on a collaborative, distributed team
- Get excited about the mission of making deploying with Webflow as seamless as designing in it
- Think in terms of scalability and operability, and like owning systems that require real production rigor (visibility, troubleshooting, and scale)
- Are comfortable collaborating across product + design + engineering to deliver cohesive experiences that span API/backend services, CLI tooling, and dashboard UX
- Stay curious and open to growth — demonstrating a proactive embrace of AI, and actively building and applying fluency in emerging technologies to elevate how we work, drive faster outcomes, and expand collective impact