Our new developers were able to hit the ground running, we've worked with them for over two years now, and they are truly part of our team.
Alison WhittleProduct Delivery Manager, BladeFSIn-house feel, nearshore
Webflow Developers
Webflow engineers working your British day on the parts the visual editor does not cover. The building is the easy half; what we staff for is structure that will not need rebuilding in a year.
- CMS collections designed to grow, not just to launch
- Custom code where Webflow runs out
- Working your hours and embedded in your team
CMS-Powered PlatformsInteractive ComponentsSEO & Performance
Our service
Webflow engineers embedded in your UK team
We match engineers who treat a Webflow site as a product rather than a page, covering integrations, performance and accessibility as well as layout. Because Cloud Employee is the employer of record, you get a full-time member of your team rather than a contractor.
- CMS architecture that survives real content
- Integrations with the systems you already run
- Fast and accessible, not merely finished
Fast and accessible, not merely finished
From landing pages to CMS engines
- Pixel-perfect sites that align with your brand, strategy, and campaign goals.
- CMS-Powered PlatformsDynamic content structure using Webflow CMS for blogs, case studies, directories & more.
- Interactive ComponentsCustom animations, transitions, and JS integrations for richer UX.
- Design System ImplementationFigma-to-Webflow translation with class structure that scales.
- SEO & PerformanceSites optimized for Core Web Vitals, crawlability, and fast load times.
- Multi-Language & LocalisationSites that scale globally - clean, maintainable and translated effectively.
The alternative
Get speed, fit and in-house feel without the hiring grind.
Cloud EmployeeIn-house hiringDev agenciesFreelancers
Speed to hire✓-✓✓
Flexibility to scale✓-✓✓
Developer fit (embedded)✓✓✓-
Full-time, only for you✓✓--
No overhead or upfront fees✓--✓
Solid lime = yes · outline lime = partial · grey dash = no
Vetting
You see two people - not 200 CVs.
Engineers vet engineers
A senior engineer runs a live technical conversation on the candidate's real stack, not a recruiter working from a keyword list.
Live coding, not take-homes
Real problems solved in front of an assessor, with anti-cheating checks. You see how they actually work, not what they submitted overnight.
A full profile, not a CV
Every candidate arrives with a CV, interview summary, coding-test breakdown and rate in pounds. You decide on evidence.
Every tab is a stage a candidate has to clear. Six of them, all run by our own internal engineers at Cloud Employee, before you see a name.
- Overview
- CV
- Tech interview
- Coding test
- Psychometric
- Soft skills
Scored by people. We use AI to cross-check our own consistency - never to decide who reaches your shortlist.
✓Luka M.
VettedSenior Software Engineer · TypeScript · Python · Cloud · 6 yrs · Zagreb, Croatia (GMT+1)
Assessment
Six years in production Python, the last three on LLM systems - retrieval pipelines, eval suites, and agent tooling for UK fintech. Owns delivery end to end.
Stack
Python · LangGraph
English
C1 fluent
Overlap
8 hrs UK
Notice
2 weeks
AI in practiceShips with Copilot and Claude Code daily, and rewrote 40% of the generated code in his observed task - the judgement is his, the tooling only makes him faster.
Career history
2023 - now
Senior AI Engineer
UK payments platform · 40-person product team
Built the retrieval assistant now resolving 30% of tier-1 tickets; owns its eval suite and guardrails.
2020 - 2023
Backend Engineer, Python
Travel booking SaaS · Zagreb
Moved fraud scoring onto a real-time feature pipeline; cut false declines by 18%.
2019 - 2020
Data Engineer
Agency · Python, Postgres, AWS
- Python
- FastAPI
- LangGraph
- pgvector
- Evals & tracing
- AWS
- Docker
Technical interview
Assessed by Marco R., Principal Engineer
12 Jun 2026
55 min · live call
"Walked me through an assistant that was quietly hallucinating refund policy, how he caught it in evals, and what he got wrong on the first fix. Hire-ready for a senior seat."
Live coding test
Repair a leaking retrieval pipeline
88
score
Tests passed
21 / 21
Time used
62 of 90 min
Anti-cheat flags
0
retrieval.py · submitted diff
- hits = index.query(q, k=50)+ hits = index.query(rewrite(q), k=50, filter=tenant)+ hits = rerank(hits, q)[:8] # recall 0.62 -> 0.91+ assert_context_budget(hits, max_tokens=6000)
Psychometric · technical thinking
How he reasons under a real deadline - not a personality quiz.
Top 9%of engineers
we test
A 45-minute reasoning test, scored against the 4,000+ engineers we have already placed. Our assessors do the marking - AI only flags where our own scoring looks inconsistent.
Soft skills · working with your team
Spoken English
C1 · assessed on call
References
2 of 2 verified
"He raised the payment edge case nobody else had spotted, in writing, two days before release."
This is what you receive - not a CV.
Ask our AI anythingWhy Cloud Employee
Engineers who ship, not designers who dabble
Webflow work stalls where it meets real systems and real content volumes. We vet for engineers who have crossed that line before, and who will tell you honestly when a site has outgrown the platform, at 50 to 75% less than hiring the same seniority in Britain.
- Vetted on delivered sites, not templates
- Working your hours and embedded full time
- Supported after the hire by our talent team
More than developers
We handle onboarding, HR and compliance, with a UK-based account manager as your point of contact.
Fully supported
We handle the rest so your engineers can focus on building.
Performance reviews
Payroll & complianceEquipment
WorkspaceIn-house, without the friction
No upfront fees. No lock-in contracts.
- No placement or upfront fees
- Rolling 30-day contract, cancel anytime
- One monthly rate, everything included
Ready to find your engineer?
Tell us exactly who you need.
In 90 seconds
Two matched engineers in 7 days. No fees, no obligation.
What role are you hiring for?
Pick one to start - you'll see matching engineers at the end.
- Founded in 2014
- 97% stay 2+ years
- Replace if it isn't working
Got questions?
The questions CTOs and founders ask.
01How much does it cost to hire a Webflow developer in the UK?
For most roles, 50 to 75% less than the full cost of a comparable British hire, including salary, employer national insurance, pension, recruitment fees and overheads. Yes, we place UK-based Webflow developers. Most clients still end up in Eastern Europe, the Philippines or Latin America, because the talent is comparable and the price is not, and Eastern Europe overlaps a British day almost completely. Webflow work in Britain blends design sensibility with front-end build skill, and most who hold both work through agencies charging design-agency rates. You pay one monthly fee, nothing for interviewing.
02What is Webflow and why do teams choose it?
Webflow is a visual platform for designing, building and hosting marketing websites, pairing a designer-grade canvas with a CMS, animations and clean generated markup. Teams choose it because it removes the developer bottleneck from the website; marketing can change copy, publish pages and run campaigns without a deployment, while the site stays fast and polished. It occupies a specific niche extremely well, brochure sites, content sites and landing-page programmes, and its limits are just as specific, complex logic means bolting on external tools. If you need a real application with accounts, hire for that instead.
03What skills should I look for in a Webflow developer now?
Structure and taste, in that order; a strong Webflow developer builds sites with a coherent class system, sound semantic markup and CMS collections modelled like data, not decoration. The craft gap between a tidy build and a haystack of one-off classes is enormous, and it determines whether your marketing team can work in the site safely for years. Look for accessibility habits, performance awareness around images, and enough JavaScript to extend the platform. AI belongs here too, drafting copy variants and embed code, so keeping the design system consistent is the judgement that matters.
04How do I assess a Webflow developer, and what should I ask?
Open one of their live sites and audit it together; the structure of a Webflow build is fully inspectable, which makes assessment unusually honest work. Look at class naming, responsive behaviour and how CMS collections are modelled, then ask why it is built that way. Set a small live exercise, a section from a design file, and watch the system thinking rather than the pixel speed. Let them use AI tools naturally during the exercise; what you are grading is whether the output gets checked for accessibility and performance before it ships.
05Are Webflow developers in demand, and is it worth building on?
Yes, demand keeps growing as companies move marketing sites off developer-dependent stacks, and the platform has become a standard tool for design-led teams. For the marketing layer of a business, genuinely yes; the site ships faster, iterates faster and needs no engineering rota. The honest boundary is that Webflow is a channel, not a product platform, and that makes the decision lower-stakes than a technology bet; if you outgrow it, the content migrates while your product code was never in it. If your real need is an application, hire an application developer instead.
06Do your developers use AI tools, and how do you know the code is sound?
Yes, though on Webflow the question shifts shape, because most of the work is visual construction and the code that exists lives in custom embeds and integrations. Where our developers do write code, assistants are part of the toolkit, and vetting assesses whether they use AI well; generated scripts get checked for accessibility, performance and page weight before going near production. The soundness question we actually watch on this platform is structural, whether the class system stays coherent and the CMS model stays clean at AI-accelerated pace, because a fast mess is still a mess.
07How does Cloud Employee vet Webflow developers?
Through the same CTO-led vetting as our software engineers, adapted to the craft, because a Webflow build can be judged as rigorously as a codebase. Candidates face a technical assessment, live pair programming with a senior engineer applied to a real build, a cultural fit screen and a psychometric assessment built for software engineers. We inspect live sites for structure, semantics and CMS modelling, and check how candidates work with AI tools across copy, embeds and integrations. Engineers who join tend to stay, 97% beyond two years, with a 1,000 pound annual learning budget each.
08How quickly can a developer start, and how does the engagement work?
You are typically interviewing matched candidates within 7 working days of a requirements call, and developers are often embedded and pushing code within about two weeks. From there it is a rolling monthly contract with 30 days' notice, one monthly fee, and no placement charges. You can scale up or down as the work changes, and you pay nothing to interview.
09What happens if the developer is not the right fit?
There is a two-week money-back guarantee, and if you want to continue we replace the developer free of charge. In practice this rarely comes up, because you interview a shortlist of two candidates who have already passed a CTO-led technical assessment and a live pair programming session, so the fit question is largely settled before anyone starts.
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What the difference feels like
Alison WhittleProduct Delivery Manager, BladeFSWhat I love about Cloud Employee is that you have taken all of that hard work off my shoulders.
Marcus KilgourCTO, Salmon SoftwareWorking with Cloud Employee developers is great, because they're not afraid to push back. They're proactive, they're positive, and they feel like part of the team.
Doran EskinaziHead of Engineering, HealthpointeWe actually hired the whole team remotely, having never met them. And we made a bunch of really good hires.
Euan CameronCEO, WilloCloud Employee provides a level of professionalism, communication and support we haven't found elsewhere.
Trevor SathorManaging Director, Square EyeWorking in tandem with Cloud Employee we have successfully released a major version of our main software product during a critical period for us.
James StringerManaging Director, CleanLink