Team Lead Backend Engineer

HighLevel is an AI powered, all-in-one white-label sales & marketing platform that empowers 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, comprised of agencies, consultants, and businesses of all sizes and industries. HighLevel empowers users with all the tools needed to capture, nurture, and close new leads into repeat customers. As of mid 2025, HighLevel processes over 4 billion API hits and handles more than 2.5 billion message events every day. Our platform manages over 470 terabytes of data distributed across five databases, operates with a network of over 250 microservices, and supports over 1 million hostnames.

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.

As of mid 2025, 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 each month. Behind those numbers are real people growing their companies, connecting with customers, and making their mark - and we get to help make that happen.

Our platform enables customers to create 400 million+ new entities every day and perform 35 million+ search operations daily across billions of records. We build and maintain highly scalable backend systems and search engines that operate with extremely low latency and high accuracy.

If you want to work on massive-scale distributed systems and solve real-time performance challenges, this is the right place.

We are seeking a Lead Engineer - Backend who will operate primarily as a high-impact IC, while also influencing engineering practices and technical direction across teams.

You will play a key role in improving performance, scalability, and reliability across distributed systems running at extraordinary scale.

Lead the team through critical architectural, product, and technical decisions, including long-term scalability planning

Participate in hands-on coding for critical development efforts, leading by example

Enforce engineering excellence standards through rigorous code reviews, design discussions, and the promotion of technical best practices

Own the end-to-end delivery lifecycle for large-scale, high-impact software projects

Ensure timely project delivery while maintaining high quality, system reliability, and performance

Proactively identify and mitigate technical risks, resolve system bottlenecks, and address performance issues

Actively support the professional growth and career development of team members

Influence critical talent processes, including hiring, onboarding, and team structuring, to effectively scale the organization

Drive the adoption and continuous improvement of best practices across the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Agile methodologies

5+ years in backend/system engineering roles with hands-on development

• Strong hands-on skills in Docker and Kubernetes
• Proficiency in backend languages: Node.js, Go or Similar
• Strong database experience with indexing, schema design, and optimization for Elasticsearch, Firestore, ClickHouse
• Understanding of caching strategies, message queues, and high-performance APIs
• Cloud experience with AWS/GCP and CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins or similar)
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