Staff Software Engineer, Developer Productivity

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote-first (United States; BC & ON, Canada)
• Job Type: Full-time, Permanent
• Salary:
  • United States (USD): Zone A: $175,780 - $247,690, Zone B: $164,500 - $232,180, Zone C: $154,160 - $217,610
  • Canada (CAD): $199,280 - $281,060
• Company Mission: To bring development superpowers to everyone by redefining how teams Build, Manage, and Optimize for the web through a Website Experience Platform (WXP).
• Role Focus: Establish best-in-class AI tools and frameworks to empower teams in building LLM-powered applications with speed, quality, and scalability. Integrate cutting-edge AI technologies and define best practices.

About the Role

• Reporting to: Engineering Manager
• Team: Diverse, remote-first, agile team supporting iterative and incremental shipping.

Responsibilities

• Improve developer processes for building LLM-powered applications.
• Establish best practices in prompt engineering, experimentation, and quality assessments.
• Develop hands-on training resources, prompt guides, and best practices.
• Grow as the AI Subject Matter Expert (SME).
• Identify, evaluate, and operationalize third-party AI tools, vendors, open-source tools, and custom models for compliance, security, and scalability.
• Leverage quantitative and qualitative metrics (DX Core 4) to eliminate engineering bottlenecks and make data-informed decisions.
• Communicate regularly with stakeholders on progress, challenges, and solutions.
• Participate in all engineering activities: technical designing, implementation, testing, validation, releasing new capabilities, incident response, and interviewing.
• Solve problems in a highly technical platform empowering hundreds of thousands of people.
• Identify and incorporate personal interests and development opportunities into the role.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in Developer Tooling.
• 2+ years of software development focused on AI and/or AI Platform Teams.
• 2+ years of experience tech-leading platform teams on engineering build and delivery problems.
• Accelerate the development of AI-based software at Webflow.
• Bring software development best practices to AI tooling.

Company Information

• Webflow: Pioneer of the Website Experience Platform (WXP).
• Platform Features: Visual development, content management systems, AI-driven personalization, seamless hosting, end-to-end analytics.
• AI Integration: AI is at the core of Webflow, enabling faster development, more performant digital experiences, and scaling without heavy engineering support.
• User Base: Hundreds of thousands of organizations, from independent designers and agencies to global enterprises.
• Bonus Program: Eligible to participate in Webflow's company-wide bonus program, with target amounts as a percentage of base salary, varying by career level and based on company performance.

Application Instructions

• Please visit our Careers page for more information on which locations are included in each of our geographic pay zones.
• Confirm the zone for your specific location with your recruiter.