Webflow - Engineering Manager, Convert ROI
Requirements
• You have 2+ years experience managing a team in a high growth environment. • You have 5+ years as a technical individual contributor, including meaningful time as a senior or staff engineer before moving into management. • You have experience leading teams with modern tech stacks such as TypeScript, React, Node.js, Mongo and AWS. • You have experience building or shipping AI-powered product features and a clear point of view on where AI adds real value vs. where it doesn't. • Experience in mentoring, influencing, and growing senior+ engineers across organizations. • You are committed to cultivating an inclusive team culture. • You have managed geographically distributed teams. • Enjoy opportunities to build structure that impacts your team members and their coworkers. • Can empathetically deliver tough feedback with respect and kindness. • Value accountability and will support your team in reaching their fullest potential. • Stay curious and open to growth, build on your experience with emerging technologies like AI to unlock creativity, accelerate progress, and amplify impact. • Business-level fluency to read, write and speak in English • You’ll thrive as a/an if you: • Have a genuine player-coach mindset, you're energized by both leading people and writing code, and you've found a sustainable rhythm doing both. • Depth in analytics or data-intensive systems, such as event pipelines, time-series data, OLAP/columnar stores, query engines, or experimentation/A-B testing platforms. • Comfort with conversion concepts, funnels, attribution, experimentation, segmentation, even if you haven't worked directly on conversion products before. • Familiarity with web analytics standards (events, sessions, identity resolution, privacy/consent). • 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. • Our Core Behaviors: • Build lasting customer trust. We build trust by taking action that puts customer trust first. • Win together. We play to win, and we win as one team. Success at Webflow isn't a solo act. • Reinvent ourselves. We don't just improve what exists, we imagine what's possible. • Deliver with speed, quality, and craft. We move fast because the moment demands it, and we do so without lowering the bar.
Responsibilities
• Set the long-term technical vision and architecture for backend systems powering experimentation, personalization, analytics, and conversion optimization across Webflow. • Architect and evolve high-throughput distributed systems and APIs that ingest, process, and serve large volumes of visitor and event data with low latency, high availability, and strong consistency guarantees where it matters. • Lead foundational platform investments and the data infrastructure that supports them, that unlock new product capabilities for years to come. • Partner closely with data scientists, ML engineers, and product engineers to productionize statistical and AI/ML capabilities into reliable, real-time backend infrastructure. • Lead complex, multi-team, multi-quarter technical initiatives end-to-end: from problem framing and technical strategy through implementation, launch, and long-term operational ownership. • Influence the engineering roadmap and technical strategy across the Convert pillar and partner pillars, identifying the highest-leverage investments and aligning teams behind them. • Raise the engineering bar across the org through architecture review, technical standards, observability and operational excellence practices, and the systems and tooling that support long-term quality. • Mentor and grow staff and senior engineers, multiplying your impact through the people you develop and the technical culture you help shape. • Stay current with industry trends in distributed systems, experimentation platforms, real-time data, and AI/ML infrastructure, and proactively identify opportunities to advance Webflow's backend platform and engineering practices. • Translate product vision into concrete technical problems and execution plans. • BA/BS degree or equivalent experience • Bring 8+ years of software engineering experience, including hands-on expertise building and operating backend systems and distributed systems at scale. • Have a strong technical foundation in one or more programming languages such as Python, Java, or Go, with solid fluency in modern frameworks, distributed systems patterns, and system design. • Have designed, built, and operated high-throughput, data-intensive distributed systems in production — with a strong understanding of scalability, fault tolerance, consistency tradeoffs, observability, and performance optimization. • Have demonstrated technical leadership on complex initiatives, influencing architecture and execution within and beyond your immediate team. • Partner effectively with product, design, data science, and ML stakeholders to translate business needs and customer outcomes into scalable technical solutions. • Bring strong judgment, communicate clearly with technical audiences, and make pragmatic tradeoffs in fast-moving environments. • Demonstrate a proactive embrace of AI, actively building and applying fluency in emerging technologies to elevate how we work and drive faster outcomes. • 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, etc.) and the infrastructure required to support them at scale. • Experience with Node.js and TypeScript in large production systems is a plus, but not required. • Our Core Behaviors: • Our Core Behaviors: • Build lasting customer trust. We build trust by taking action that puts customer trust first. • Build lasting customer trust. • Win together. We play to win, and we win as one team. Success at Webflow isn't a solo act. • Win together. • Reinvent ourselves. We don't just improve what exists, we imagine what's possible. • Reinvent ourselves. • Deliver with speed, quality, and craft. We move fast because the moment demands it, and we do so without lowering the bar. • Deliver with speed, quality, and craft.
Benefits
• Ownership in what you help build. Every permanent Webflower receives equity (RSUs) in our growing, privately held company. • Ownership in what you help build. • Health coverage that actually covers you. Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans for full-time employees and their dependents, with Webflow covering most premiums. • Health coverage that actually covers you. • Support for every stage of family life. 12 weeks of paid parental leave for all parents and 6+ weeks of additional paid leave for birthing parents. Plus inclusive care for family planning, menopause, and midlife transitions. • Support for every stage of family life • Time off that’s actually off. Flexible vacation, paid holidays, and a sabbatical program to help you recharge and come back inspired. • Time off that’s actually off. • Wellness for the whole you. Access to mental health resources, therapy and coaching. • Wellness for the whole you. • Invest in your future. A 401(k) with 100% employer match (up to $6,000/year) in the U.S., and support for retirement savings globally. • Invest in your future. • Monthly stipends that flex with your life. Localized support for work and wellness expenses — from Wi-Fi to workouts. • Monthly stipends that flex with your life. • Bonus for building together. All full-time, permanent, non-commission employees are eligible for our annual WIN bonus program. • Bonus for building together. • Temporary employees may be eligible for paid holiday and time off, statutory leaves of absence, and company-sponsored medical benefits depending on their Fixed Term Contract and their country/state of employment. • Remote, together • Remote, together
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