Software Development Engineer III - Full Stack Development (Social Planner)

HighLevel; India; Hybrid; INR 800,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

HighLevel is seeking an experienced software engineer to join their Social Planner team in India. This role focuses on developing full-stack web apps and APIs that enhance social media management experiences. You will work with designers, product managers, and other engineers to deliver impactful solutions.

The ideal candidate will have over 4 years of experience, proficiency in JavaScript and other languages, and a passion for user-centered design. This position allows for significant collaboration and innovation within a dynamic team.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in a full-stack environment.
• Proficient with various programming languages and tools.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a remote setting.

Responsibilities

• Build backend & Frontend API features and architecture.
• Collaborate closely with our leadership team.
• Optimize application performance and scalability.

Skills

JavaScript

TypeScript

Vue.js

NodeJS

GraphQL

Job description

About the Team

The Social Planner team is a dedicated product group within HighLevel’s Leadgen organization, focused on delivering a seamless social media management experience. We empower agencies and businesses to create, schedule, and manage posts across multiple platforms, while also providing automation, analytics, and engagement tools.

Our primary objectives are to drive Social Planner adoption, improve feature retention, and maximize user engagement by making social publishing effortless and impactful.

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced software engineer with strong technical and communication skills who has developed full stack web apps, created solid APIs and beautiful interfaces for consuming them in user friendly apps. Focusing on details and well written self documented code are essential for this position. You can expect to collaborate with a solid team of designers, product managers, developers and testers on a daily basis. You must be experienced in building highly scalable and resilient systems that can meet our customer needs.

Platform Responsibilities

• Post Publishing & Scheduling – We enable agencies to publish and schedule posts across major social platforms, ensuring timely and consistent content delivery.
• Post Automation – We support advanced publishing workflows, including CSV uploads, RSS‑to‑post, Review Posts, Category Queues, and Recurring Queues – giving agencies full flexibility to manage content at scale.
• Engagement & Insights – Through Social Statistics, Comment Management, and Social Listening, we provide agencies with deep insights into performance and engagement, enabling data‑driven content strategies.
• Best Time to Post – We surface AI‑driven recommendations on when to post for maximum reach and engagement, helping agencies optimize their content strategy.
• Multi‑Platform Integration – We currently support integrations with 9 major platforms – Google Business Profile, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, YouTube, Pinterest, Threads, and Bluesky – along with HighLevel’s internal Community product.

Responsibilities

• Improve and create new lead capture domain models.
• Build backend & Frontend API features and architecture.
• Work cross‑functionally across our platform, experience, integrations, payments and marketplace teams.
• Drive performance through benchmarking and optimization.
• Work with a wide range of systems, processes, and technologies to own and solve problems from end to end.
• 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.
• Work on 1 to 2 products.
• Create and improve lead capture tools like funnels, websites, forms, surveys, social media.
• Architect and build backend & Frontend APIs and features.

Core Skills

• 4+ years of experience in a full‑stack environment.
• Develop and maintain a highly scalable email builder web App, enabling customers to send ~30 million emails per day. Manage email statistics and integrate with internal teams leveraging email builder templates.
• Scale and optimize our countdown timer, used across emails, websites, and funnels, with more than 300 K daily views. Design and develop Brand Board, a tool that helps customers build and integrate their brand identity seamlessly across the platform. Optimize application performance and scalability using modern development practices.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and implement improvements to existing systems.
• Proficient with various programming languages and tools such as but not limited to Javascript, TypeScript, Vue.js, NodeJS, and GraphQL. Must be able to work with a team and collaborate remotely.
• You have an entrepreneurial mindset, are eager to take on different roles when necessary and know how to navigate a start‑up environment. You are fulfilled by being a generalist working on both the frontend, backend, and anything it takes to solve problems and delight users and take pride in working on projects involving a variety of technologies and systems.
• Ability to stitch together many different services and processes together, even if you have not worked with them before.
• Hold a great deal of empathy for your team and users, you are a steward of crafting great experiences.
• Have great communication skills and can thrive in a highly collaborative environment when working cross‑functionally with many stakeholders.
• Driven by product quality, and innately know how to balance trade‑offs with time to launch new features.
• A keen eye for design and love to think about user flows and user experiences. Must have experience with HTML5 and CSS3.

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.