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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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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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