Remote Staff Backend Engineer – Scale Global APIs

HighLevel; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

HighLevel is seeking a Staff Engineer – Backend to design, build, and evolve systems powering the CRM platform. This senior IC role demands solving complex backend and distributed systems problems, influencing architecture across teams, and raising the engineering bar across the organization.

You will tackle high-volume APIs, asynchronous processing, large datasets, search, indexing, and event-driven workflows at scale.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience building backend systems at scale.
• Strong proficiency in Node.js/TypeScript, Go, Java or similar.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems and microservice architecture.
• Experience with large datasets and high request volumes.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve scalable backend systems and services.
• Lead architecture for cross-team backend initiatives.
• Design APIs, data models, event-driven workflows, and service boundaries.
• Build systems for high-throughput requests and large datasets.
• Improve API latency, throughput, and system scalability.
• Mentor senior engineers and develop stronger technical ownership.

Skills

Backend systems design

Distributed architectures

API design

Performance optimization

Leadership

Mentoring

Hands-on coding

Cloud & Kubernetes

Tools

Elasticsearch/OpenSearch

PostgreSQL

MySQL

MongoDB

Firestore

Redis

Kafka

Pub/Sub

RabbitMQ

SQS

Kubernetes

OpenTelemetry

Grafana/Prometheus

Job description

HighLevel is seeking a Staff Engineer – Backend to design, build, and evolve systems powering the CRM platform. This senior IC role demands solving complex backend and distributed systems problems, influencing architecture across teams, and raising the engineering bar across the organization.

You will tackle high-volume APIs, asynchronous processing, large datasets, search, indexing, and event-driven workflows at scale.