SDE 3

HighLevel; Dallas (TX); Híbrido; USD 120.000 - 180.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

HighLevel is seeking a seasoned software engineer to own architecture and lead the development of scalable backend services and frontend experiences for agency management, onboarding, and billing workflows. You will design robust data models, drive technical decisions, and collaborate across teams to deliver high-performance, secure solutions.

The role emphasizes AI-assisted development practices, strong observability, and end-to-end SDLC participation, with a focus on reliability and security

Formación

• 4+ years of hands-on software engineering experience building and scaling robust backend systems and high-performance frontend applications.
• Strong backend engineering skills with hands-on experience in Node.js, TypeScript, API development, data modeling, and system design.
• Experience with RESTful API design, microservices, distributed systems, and cross-service communication.
• Hands-on experience with MongoDB and Redis, data modeling, query design, and performance optimization.
• Experience with event-driven architectures and messaging systems like GCP Pub/Sub, Kafka, RabbitMQ.
• Exposure to AI/LLM development, such as integrating LLM APIs and AI-assisted workflows.
• Frontend experience with Vue.js, React, or Angular, and CSS frameworks like Tailwind or Bootstrap.
• Experience with frontend state management libraries (Vuex/Pinia, Redux, MobX).
• Strong observability and debugging skills using Grafana, Prometheus, Sentry; CI/CD and automated testing.
• Familiarity with ClickHouse and Elasticsearch; productive use of modern SDLC and Git workflows.

Responsabilidades

• Own and contribute to architecture, design, and development of key product areas.
• Design and build scalable backend services, APIs, and integrations across microservices and third-party platforms like Stripe.
• Build frontend experiences for agency management, onboarding, and billing workflows with modern frameworks.
• Drive technical decisions, identify risks, and own complex features from design to production.
• Leverage AI-assisted development tools to improve development, testing, and refactoring while maintaining quality.
• Design data models and run efficient queries across Firestore, MongoDB, ClickHouse, and Elasticsearch.
• Participate in full SDLC: requirements, design, implementation, deployment, monitoring, and support.
• Write clean, secure code with unit and integration tests; maintain observability through logs and metrics.
• Collaborate with product managers and other teams to translate requirements into scalable solutions.
• Follow security, scalability, maintainability, testing, and production-readiness practices.

Conocimientos

Backend engineering

Node.js

TypeScript

API design

Microservices

Distributed systems

Data modeling

Event-driven architectures

AI/LLM development

Frontend state management

Herramientas

Vue.js

React

Angular

Tailwind CSS

Bootstrap

MongoDB

Redis

ClickHouse

Elasticsearch

GCP Pub/Sub

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Grafana

Prometheus

Sentry

Cursor

Claude Code

GitHub Copilot

Descripción del empleo

Responsibilities:

• Own and contribute to the architecture, design, and development of key product areas.
• Design and build scalable backend services, APIs, and integrations, working across internal microservices and third-party platforms such as Stripe, with a strong focus on reliability, security, and performance.
• Build performant and scalable frontend experiences for agency management, onboarding, and billing workflows using modern frontend frameworks and component-driven architecture with strong state management practices.
• Drive technical decisions, identify risks and trade-offs, and independently own complex features from technical design through production.
• Leverage AI-first development practices and AI-assisted development tools to improve development, testing, debugging, and refactoring while maintaining strong quality and security standards.
• Design data models and build efficient queries across data stores such as Firestore, MongoDB, ClickHouse, and Elasticsearch.
• Participate across the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), from requirement analysis and technical design to implementation, deployment, monitoring, and production support.
• Write clean, efficient, secure, and testable code with appropriate unit and integration test coverage.
• Build and maintain effective observability through logs, metrics, monitoring, and tracing to improve system reliability and enable faster production issue resolution.
• Participate in code reviews, technical design discussions, incident resolution, and operational support, including on-call responsibilities where applicable.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and other engineering teams to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Follow engineering best practices around security, scalability, maintainability, testing, documentation, and production readiness.

Requirements:

• 4+ years of hands-on software engineering experience building and scaling robust backend systems and high-performance frontend applications.
• Strong backend engineering skills with hands-on experience in Node.js, TypeScript, API development, data modeling, and system design. Experience with NestJS is preferred.
• Strong understanding of RESTful API design, microservices architecture, distributed systems, and cross-service communication.
• Hands-on experience working with data stores such as MongoDB and Redis, with a strong understanding of data modeling, query design, and performance optimization.
• Experience working with event-driven architectures and messaging systems such as GCP Pub/Sub, Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar technologies.
• Exposure to AI/LLM application development, such as integrating LLM APIs, prompt/context design, or building AI-assisted product workflows.
• Good frontend development experience with modern frameworks such as Vue.js, React, or Angular, with Vue.js preferred, along with a good understanding of component-driven architecture and modern CSS frameworks such as Tailwind CSS or Bootstrap.
• Experience with frontend state management patterns and libraries such as Vuex/Pinia, Redux, MobX, or similar solutions.
• Good understanding of production observability and debugging, including logging, monitoring, tracing, error tracking, and performance profiling using tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, Sentry, or similar platforms.
• Experience with modern SDLC practices, Agile development methodologies, Git workflows, automated testing, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiarity with specialized data platforms such as ClickHouse and Elasticsearch, and an understanding of when to use document databases, analytical/columnar databases, and search engines.
• Familiarity with modern developer productivity tools, including hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or similar tools.
• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills, with the ability to investigate issues across frontend, backend, databases, integrations, and distributed services.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills, with the ability to drive technical discussions, make sound engineering trade-offs, and mentor other engineers.
• Strong ownership mindset with the ability to independently drive complex engineering problems and deliver high‑quality solutions.