Lead Engineer - Contacts

Job Description

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’re looking for a Team Lead – Full Stack (Node.js & Vue.js) to drive technical excellence, lead a team of high-caliber engineers, and build next-generation CRM marketing solutions.


Responsibilities
  • Lead & Mentor: Guide a team of developers, ensuring best practices in software development, clean architecture, and performance optimization.
  • Architect & Scale: Design and build highly scalable and reliable backend services using Node.js, MongoDB, and ElasticSearch, ensuring optimal indexing, sharding, and query performance.
  • Frontend Development: Develop and optimize user interfaces using Vue.js (or React/Angular) for an exceptional customer experience.
  • Event-Driven Systems: Design and implement real-time data processing pipelines using Kafka, RabbitMQ, or ActiveMQ.
  • Optimize Performance: Work on autoscaling, database sharding, and indexing strategies to handle millions of transactions efficiently.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with Product Managers, Data Engineers, and DevOps teams to align on vision, execution, and business goals.
  • Quality & Security: Implement secure, maintainable, and scalable codebases while adhering to industry best practices.
  • Code Reviews & Standards: Drive high engineering standards, perform code reviews, and enforce best practices across the development team.
  • Ownership & Delivery: Manage timelines, oversee deployments, and ensure smooth product releases with minimal downtime.

  • Requirements
  • 5+ years of hands-on software development experience with at least 2+ year in a leadership role.
  • Strong proficiency in Node.js, Vue.js (or React/Angular), MongoDB, and Elasticsearch.
  • Experience in real-time data processing, message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ, or ActiveMQ), and event-driven architectures.
  • Scalability expertise: Proven track record of scaling services to 200k+ MAUs and handling high-throughput systems.
  • Strong understanding of database sharding, indexing, and performance optimization.
  • Experience with distributed systems, microservices, and cloud infrastructures (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
  • Proficiency in CI/CD pipelines, Git version control, and automated testing.
  • Strong problem-solving, analytical, and debugging skills.
  • Excellent communication and leadership abilities—able to guide engineers while collaborating with stakeholders.

  • Good to Have
  • Bonus PointsExperience with big data technologies like Apache Flink, Spark, Hadoop, or Data Lakes.
  • Familiarity with real-time analytics, data ingestion pipelines, and large-scale event processing systems.
  • Previous experience in CRM or SaaS environments.