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Staff Software Engineer, Convert

Backend Developer • Principal • Remote • Full-time • 📍 Remote (US)

Webflow is building the world's leading Agentic Marketing Experience Platform, and is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to help lead the technical future of Convert, its suite of products that give marketing and growth teams tools to experiment, personalize, and drive revenue. This is a cross-team technical leadership role working across a large, complex, revenue-generating system. You will partner with senior leaders across Engineering, Product, and Design to turn vision into shippable reality. The role is remote-first in Argentina.

Responsibilities

  • Set the long-term technical vision and architecture for backend systems powering experimentation, personalization, analytics, and conversion optimization
  • Architect and evolve high-throughput distributed systems and APIs that ingest, process, and serve large volumes of visitor and event data with low latency and high availability
  • Lead foundational platform and data infrastructure investments that unlock new product capabilities
  • Partner with data scientists, ML engineers, and product engineers to productionize statistical and AI/ML capabilities into real-time backend infrastructure
  • Lead complex, multi-team, multi-quarter technical initiatives end-to-end
  • Influence the engineering roadmap and technical strategy across Convert and partner pillars
  • Raise the engineering bar through architecture review, technical standards, and operational excellence
  • Mentor and grow staff and senior engineers

Requirements

  • BA/BS degree or equivalent experience
  • 8+ years of software engineering experience, including building and operating backend and distributed systems at scale
  • Strong foundation in one or more languages such as Python, Java, or Go, with fluency in modern frameworks and system design
  • Experience designing, building, and operating high-throughput, data-intensive distributed systems in production
  • Demonstrated technical leadership on complex initiatives, influencing architecture and execution beyond the immediate team
  • Ability to partner with product, design, data science, and ML stakeholders to translate business needs into scalable solutions
  • Strong judgment and clear communication with technical audiences
  • A proactive embrace of AI and emerging technologies

Nice to have

  • Experience with experimentation platforms (A/B testing, feature flagging, multi-armed bandits), personalization or recommendation systems, marketing analytics, or customer data platforms
  • Familiarity with the statistical foundations of online experimentation (variance reduction, sequential testing, CUPED) and the infrastructure to support them at scale
  • Experience with Node.js and TypeScript in large production systems

Soft skills

Cross-team technical leadershipClear communication and pragmatic tradeoffs in fast-moving environmentsMentoring and multiplying impact through othersStrong judgment

What we offer

  • Equity (RSUs) for every permanent employee
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans with Webflow covering most premiums
  • 12 weeks of paid parental leave for all parents and 6+ weeks of additional paid leave for birthing parents
  • Flexible vacation, paid holidays, and a sabbatical program
  • Access to mental health resources, therapy and coaching
  • 401(k) with 100% employer match (up to $6,000/year) in the U.S. and retirement support globally
  • Monthly stipends for work and wellness expenses
  • Annual WIN bonus program for eligible employees
  • Eligible to participate in Webflow's company-wide bonus program

About the company

Webflow is building the world's leading Agentic Marketing Experience Platform as a remote-first company built on trust, transparency, and creativity. Its mission is to bring development superpowers to everyone, from entrepreneurs to global enterprises, empowering teams to design, launch, and optimize for the web without barriers.

Education: BA/BS diploma vagy egyenértékű tapasztalat.