About HighLevel:

HighLevel is a cloud-based, all-in-one white-label marketing and sales platform that empowers marketing agencies, entrepreneurs, and businesses to elevate their digital presence and drive growth. We are proud to support a global and growing community of over 2 million businesses, from marketing agencies to entrepreneurs to small businesses and beyond. Our platform empowers users across industries to streamline operations, drive growth, and crush their goals.

HighLevel processes over 15 billion API hits and handles more than 2.5 billion message events every day. Our platform manages 470 terabytes of data distributed across five databases, operates with a network of over 250 micro-services, and supports over 1 million domain names.

Our People

With over 1,500 team members across 15+ countries, we operate in a global, remote-first environment. We are building more than software; we are building a global community rooted in creativity, collaboration, and impact. We take pride in cultivating a culture where innovation thrives, ideas are celebrated, and people come first, no matter where they call home.

Our Impact

Every month, our platform powers over 1.5 billion messages, helps generate over 200 million leads, and facilitates over 20 million conversations for the more than 2 million businesses we serve. Behind those numbers are real people growing their companies, connecting with customers, and making their mark - and we get to help make that happen.

Learn more about us on our YouTube Channel or Blog Posts

About the Role:

We seek an experienced Full Stack Engineer with strong technical and communication skills who has worked extensively on backend and frontend engineering systems. This role involves building systems that process large amounts of data at scale and handle thousands of requests per minute.

You’ll be responsible for designing, optimizing, and scaling our platform while collaborating with engineers across teams, designers and product managers. As a key contributor, you’ll be expected to work autonomously, guide other developers, and help drive technical decisions that impact the entire system.

Responsibilities:

Create new reporting features and upscale the existing functionalities to take the product to a new height
Design scalable backend & frontend architecture
Drive performance through benchmarking, and optimisation and adhere to security best practices
Work with a wide range of systems, processes, and technologies to own and solve problems from end to end
Work cross-functionally across our platform and with different teams
Collaborate closely with our leadership team including engineers, designers and product managers to build new features and products
Uphold high engineering standards and bring consistency to the many codebases and systems you will encounter

Requirements:

4+ years of experience in full-stack development with a focus on scale with proficiency in Node.js, Nest.js/Express.js
1.5+ years of experience with Vue.js/React.js or frontend similar frameworks
Strong understanding of databases (MySQL, MongoDB, ElasticSearch or similar engines) and caching strategies (Redis or similar engines)
Experience handling high-scale traffic, distributed systems, and concurrency challenges
Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
Experience with messaging systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ, Google Pub/Sub etc.) for event-driven architecture
Proficiency in testing frameworks for frontend and backend (e.g., Jest, Mocha, Cypress)
Strong fundamentals, debugging, performance optimisation, and problem-solving skills
Ability to work autonomously and collaborate effectively in a remote environment
Strong communication skills and a product-driven mindset to balance trade-offs efficiently

Interview Process:

Technical Interview I
Assignment
Technical Interview II
Final HR Interview

EEO Statement:

At HighLevel, we value diversity. In fact, we understand it makes our organisation stronger. We are committed to inclusive hiring/promotion practices that evaluate skill sets, abilities, and qualifications without regard to any characteristic unrelated to performing the job at the highest level. Our objective is to foster an environment where really talented employees from all walks of life can be their true and whole selves, cherished and welcomed for their differences while providing excellent service to our clients and learning from one another along the way! Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

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