Senior Backend Engineer - CRM Opportunities at Scale

Remote; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 190,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Job summary

HighLevel, a remote-first AI-powered business operating system, seeks an SDE-3 Backend Builder to own the CRM Opportunities product end-to-end. You will design data models, build scalable services, and ship pipelines at scale for thousands to millions of deals across workspaces.

You will work with Node.js or Go, contribute UI surfaces in Vue when needed, and drive reliability with logs, metrics, and SLOs while maintaining a strong focus on system performance and multi-tenant isolation.

Qualifications

• 4+ years building and operating production backend systems at scale.

Responsibilities

• Own the full lifecycle of Opportunities backend: translate business and customer needs into scalable, production-grade services
• Design and evolve the data model for pipelines, stages, deals, and associated entities - getting consistency, throughput, and query patterns right
• Build and scale APIs, event-driven workflows, and background jobs that handle high-volume writes, automations, and integrations
• Tackle distributed systems concerns: idempotency, eventual consistency, race conditions, hot tenants, and noisy-neighbor isolation
• Improve performance and reliability of large pipelines (millions of opportunities per workspace) through indexing, sharding, caching, and query optimization
• Ship end-to-end when needed - including UI changes in Vue - without blocking on cross-functional handoffs
• Instrument the system: logs, metrics, traces, and SLOs that make production behavior legible. Drive incident response, postmortems, and the engineering hygiene that keeps a high-traffic product healthy

Skills

Backend systems

Data modeling

API design

Distributed systems

Node.js

Go

Multi-tenant SaaS

Vue.js frontend

CRM experience

Tools

Kafka/Redis Streams

MongoDB

Postgres

ElasticSearch

ClickHouse

Job description

HighLevel, a remote-first AI-powered business operating system, seeks an SDE-3 Backend Builder to own the CRM Opportunities product end-to-end. You will design data models, build scalable services, and ship pipelines at scale for thousands to millions of deals across workspaces.

You will work with Node.js or Go, contribute UI surfaces in Vue when needed, and drive reliability with logs, metrics, and SLOs while maintaining a strong focus on system performance and multi-tenant isolation.