# Senior Software Engineer, Convert

**Company:** [Webflow](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/webflow)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Python, TypeScript, Node.js, AWS, Kubernetes, MongoDB, Docker, CI/CD, Observability, Distributed Systems, Event Streaming, Temporal, Airflow, Llm Systems, Agentic Workflows
**Posted:** 2026-08-07

> Build and operate reliable distributed backend systems for Webflow’s recommendations pipeline and AI workflow execution engine. The role requires 5+ years of production backend experience, strong Python or TypeScript/Node.js skills, and hands-on ownership of AWS, Kubernetes, data, and observability infrastructure.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate distributed backend systems for recommendations and AI workflow execution using Python and TypeScript/Node.js.
- Own and harden infrastructure on AWS and Kubernetes, improving reliability, observability, and scalability.
- Strengthen eventing and streaming systems through retries, backpressure, and recovery mechanisms.
- Reduce infrastructure single points of failure and share operational and on-call ownership.
- Design service and API boundaries and optimize MongoDB data models and queries.
- Build reliable systems on top of LLM-backed components and agentic workflows.
- Partner with product engineers, product managers, and designers to ship end-to-end solutions.
- Improve tested, observable, maintainable code and technical documentation.
- Mentor engineers on backend and reliability practices.

## Requirements
- BA/BS degree or equivalent experience.
- Business-level fluency in English.
- 5+ years of experience building and operating backend systems in production, ideally in scalable, multi-tenant SaaS.
- Deep experience with distributed systems, concurrency, asynchronous and eventually consistent processing, queues or streaming, and failure-aware design.
- Strong Python and/or TypeScript/Node.js skills.
- Experience modeling data in MongoDB or a comparable database.
- Hands-on experience with AWS, containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and observability, including metrics, logging, and tracing.
- Commitment to testing, documentation, reliability, communication, and mentoring.
- Proactive adoption of AI and emerging technologies.

## Nice to Have
- Experience with workflow or orchestration engines such as n8n, Temporal, or Airflow.
- Experience building or operating LLM-backed or agentic systems in production.
- Experience improving unreliable services to become highly reliable.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Equity through RSUs for permanent employees.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage for full-time employees and dependents.
- Paid parental leave and additional paid leave for birthing parents.
- Flexible vacation, paid holidays, and a sabbatical program.
- Mental health resources, therapy, and coaching.
- Retirement savings support, including a 401(k) employer match up to $6,000 per year in the U.S.
- Monthly work and wellness expense stipends.
- Eligibility for the annual WIN bonus program for full-time, permanent, non-commission employees.

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