Lead Engineer - Platform

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. With a focus on streamlining marketing efforts and providing comprehensive solutions, HighLevel helps businesses of all sizes achieve their marketing goals. We currently have ~1200 employees across 15 countries, working remotely as well as in our headquarters, which is located in Dallas, Texas. Our goal as an employer is to maintain a strong company culture, foster creativity and collaboration, and encourage a healthy work-life balance for our employees wherever they call home.

Our Website - https://www.gohighlevel.com/

YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXFiV4qDX5ipE-DQcsm1j4g

Blog Post - https://blog.gohighlevel.com/general-atlantic-joins-highlevel/

Our Customers:

HighLevel serves a diverse customer base, including over 60K agencies & entrepreneurs and 500K businesses globally. Our customers range from small and medium-sized businesses to enterprises, spanning various industries and sectors.

Scale at HighLevel:

We operate at scale, managing over 40 billion API hits and 120 billion events monthly, with more than 500 micro-services in production. Our systems handle 200+ terabytes of application data and 6 petabytes of storage.

About the Role:

We are looking for a Lead Engineer for the platform team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for building common services that shall be used by other product engineering teams. The candidate will be involved in solving complex engineering problems and building solutions around efficient event-driven communication. you will

play a crucial part in architecting, developing, and maintaining the backend infrastructure.

• Architecture-Design the architecture and make sure it is cost-efficient and aligned to the overall architectural vision

• Implementation-Implementing major/complex parts of the product
• Ownership-Take ownership of the delivery timeline and coordinate the complete development of products

• Releases-Take ownership of the product releases, pre-plan and scale the infrastructure accordingly.

• Leadership-Communicate clear goals, provide constructive feedback, manage, coach, and support the engineering team

• Quality-Maintain high standards of code quality through regular design and code reviews

• Experience with scaling the services to atleast 200k+MAUs
• A thorough understanding of event-driven architecture is a must
• Extensive hands-on experience with NodeJS & Typescript is required
• Proficiency in Message Queues(Kafka/Google PubSub or any other)is required
• Experience in writing common library code is a plus
• Experience with GCPCloud Tasks, and Cloud functions is a plus
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Engineering or related field of study
• 5+ years of engineering experience.
• Strong people, communication, and problem-solving skills.

EEO Statement:

The company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. As an employer subject to affirmative action regulations, we invite you to voluntarily provide the following demographic information. This information is used solely for compliance with government recordkeeping, reporting, and other legal requirements. Providing this information is voluntary and refusal to do so will not affect your application status. This data will be kept separate from your application and will not be used in the hiring decision.

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