Senior Backend Engineer, CMS Extensibility

As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll:

• Collaborate with designers, product managers, and engineers to plan and build product capabilities that enable our ambitious visual development goals.
• 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.
• Solve problems in a highly technical platform that empowers hundreds of thousands of people.
• Improve our planning, development, and deployment processes to help you and your fellow team members.
• Tackle complex technical challenges on a collaborative and geographically distributed team

About you 

You’ll thrive as a Senior Software Engineer, CMS Extensibility if you…

• Have 5+ years of experience shipping features and products, with a focus on web frameworks and products
• Have proven experience scaling Mongo systems 
• Are familiar with Node.js and TypeScript and can write scalable services and APIs using Express.js, GraphQL, Apollo, and MongoDB
• Can debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack
• Have an innate interest in the Web Platform, visual development, and the intersection of building platforms that enable customers
• 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
• Take pride in taking ownership and driving projects to business impact
• Deeply understand data design and modeling
• 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.