Remote Platform Architect — Special Projects Lead

Lever, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

HighLevel is hiring a senior architect to lead the design and delivery of industry solutions in a global, remote-first environment. You will work with product and domain experts to translate customer problems into scalable platforms and reusable industry layers.

You will balance speed with long-term scalability, build integrations with major platforms, and mentor engineers to maintain high quality and reliability across thousands of accounts.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of backend or platform engineering experience; 2+ years in technical leadership.
• Experience designing configurable, multi-tenant platforms with metadata-driven models/workflows.
• Proven track record delivering products from 0 to 1 into production and scaling.
• Ability to learn unfamiliar domains quickly and translate to solid designs.
• Strong product/customer sense linking tech decisions to business outcomes.
• Experience building third-party integrations incl. OAuth, webhooks, data sync.
• Security, scalability, and data isolation in multi-tenant SaaS contexts.
• Excellent communication with engineers and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and delivery of industry solutions from problem understanding to scalable launch.
• Balance speed vs. scale; ship lean versions to validate with customers and harden into platform capabilities.
• Design a reusable industry layer: configurable objects, workflows, templates, and automations.
• Build integrations with platforms like Uber Eats, Stripe, and booking systems.
• Define versioning, feature flags, and rollout controls across thousands of accounts.
• Develop reliable event-driven systems for real-time workflows; observability and quality.
• Collaborate with core teams to expose safe extension points for industry solutions.
• Lead and mentor engineers, emphasizing code quality and reliability.
• Drive observability and performance improvements across workflows and integrations.
• Partner with product/go-to-market teams to measure adoption and value.

Skills

Backend engineering

Technical leadership

Multi-tenant design

Product thinking

OAuth flows

Webhooks

Security in SaaS

Communication

Tools

Node.js

NestJS

TypeScript

Vue 3

OpenAPI/Swagger

Kubernetes (GKE)

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Job description

HighLevel is hiring a senior architect to lead the design and delivery of industry solutions in a global, remote-first environment. You will work with product and domain experts to translate customer problems into scalable platforms and reusable industry layers.

You will balance speed with long-term scalability, build integrations with major platforms, and mentor engineers to maintain high quality and reliability across thousands of accounts.