Staff Engineer - Funnels

HighLevel; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

HighLevel is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the LC Phone Team, shaping the core communication platform for SMS, voice, and messaging across products. You will mentor 10+ engineers, drive long-term architecture, and raise engineering standards to ensure reliable, scalable experiences for millions of users.

You will partner with PMs, infra, and security to define technical roadmaps, lead cross-squad initiatives, and elevate the platform with defensible, high-quality design and code.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of full stack engineering experience across frontend, backend, and cloud.
• Expert-level Vue and modern JavaScript/TypeScript knowledge.
• Strong backend skills with NestJS/Express and scalable services.

Responsibilities

• Own architecture and scaling strategy for key systems across multiple products.
• Improve observability with Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry; define SLOs.
• Lead design reviews, architecture deep dives, and mentoring across squads.

Skills

Vue

TypeScript

NestJS

Express

SQL

NoSQL (MongoDB/Firestore)

Elasticsearch

Nginx

GCP

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Job description

About Us

HighLevel is an AI powered, all-in-one white-label sales & marketing platform that empowers agencies, entrepreneurs, and businesses to elevate their digital presence and drive growth. We are proud to support a global and growing community of over 2 million businesses, comprised of agencies, consultants, and businesses of all sizes and industries. HighLevel empowers users with all the tools needed to capture, nurture, and close new leads into repeat customers. As of mid 2025, HighLevel processes over 15 billion API hits and handles more than 2.5 billion message events every day. Our platform manages over 470 terabytes of data distributed across five databases, operates with a network of over 250 microservices, and supports over 1 million domain names.

Our People

With over 1,500 team members across 15+ countries, we operate in a global, remote-first environment. We are building more than software; we are building a global community rooted in creativity, collaboration, and impact. We take pride in cultivating a culture where innovation thrives, ideas are celebrated, and people come first, no matter where they call home.

Our Impact

As of mid 2025, our platform powers over 1.5 billion messages, helps generate over 200 million leads, and facilitates over 20 million conversations for the more than 2 million businesses we serve each month. Behind those numbers are real people growing their companies, connecting with customers, and making their mark - and we get to help make that happen.

About the Role

We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our LC Phone Team, which powers the core communication platform handling SMS, MMS, Voice Calls, Whatsapp and RCS messaging across our product ecosystem. This team is responsible for delivering a reliable, secure, and performant infrastructure that handles millions of time-critical operations — from Purchasing Phone numbers, Delivering SMS, Connecting Voice calls, Conferences, Automated Billing systems through multiple service providers.

Millions of SMBs on our platform utilise these services to communicate with their customers, provide services and updates. Currently the system handles 100M+ events on a daily basis spanning across 15+ different services. LC Phone is a major contributor to Highlevel’s revenue where services uptime, reliability are paramount, making sure customers are having the best experience possible on the platform.

As a Staff Engineer, you’ll lead the technical direction of the platform, solve complex distributed system problems, and mentor 10+ engineers across squads of 5 different products. You’ll partner closely with PMs, designers, infra, and security teams to drive long-term architecture, elevate engineering standards, and ensure seamless user experiences at scale.

Responsibilities

• Platform Architecture & System DesignOwn architecture and scaling strategy for key Funnel/Website Builder systems (real-time collaborative editor, rendering engine, theme system, publishing pipeline)Lead major cross-cutting initiatives focused on reliability, rendering performance, delivery latency, and workflow consistency across builder surfacesDrive long-term technical direction for the Builder’s component framework, visual layout engine, template system, and underlying microservicesArchitect low-latency, high-availability systems that serve traffic across global regions for millions of page loads per second
• Performance, Observability & ReliabilityImprove platform-wide observability using Prometheus/Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and structured logsCreate and enforce SLOs around page rendering time, editor responsiveness, AI generation latency, and publishing reliabilityElevate resiliency across builder services through improved caching, CDN strategies, edge rendering, pre-rendering, and failover patternsDeveloper Experience & QualityDrive improvements to internal tools, build pipelines, shared component libraries, and design systems powering the Builder ecosystemEstablish coding standards, testing frameworks, and architectural patterns that scale across dozens of engineers and multiple productsLeverage LLM-assisted development workflows to accelerate code quality, refactoring, and debugging while enforcing guardrails for reliability
• Leadership & CollaborationMentor and guide engineers across squads, encouraging technical excellence, growth, and strong engineering fundamentalsPartner with PMs, designers, infra, and security to define technical roadmap and deliver impactful, high-quality experiences Lead design reviews, architecture deep-dives, and on-call rotations that reinforce a high-bar culture of ownership and operational excellence

Requirements

• 8+ years of full stack engineering experience with deep knowledge across frontend, backend, and cloudExpert-level knowledge of Vue , modern JavaScript/TypeScript, and component-driven architectures
• Advanced experience with NestJS, Express , and building scalable backend servicesStrong understanding of SQL databases and NoSQL systems (MongoDB, Firestore)
• Hands-on experience with ElasticSearch for indexing, search, and analyticsDeep familiarity with Nginx , proxies, load balancers, caching headers, and HTTP performance tuningStrong experience with GCP (Cloud Run, GKE, Pub/Sub, Firestore, CloudSQL, etc.)
• Knowledge of CDN strategies across Cloudflare & GCP (caching, edge rules, performance optimization)
• Operational & Architectural ExcellenceStrong grasp of distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and microservices design
• Experience with observability tools, dashboards, logs, and SLOsAbility to lead large-scale refactoring, platform migrations, or architectural rewrites
• Soft SkillsExceptional communication and cross-team influenceAbility to lead engineering initiatives across multiple squads
• Pragmatic, hands-on approach to problem solving and decision makingStrong mentorship and leadership instincts
• Preferred ExperienceContributions to design systems, internal dev tooling, or platform engineering initiativesExperience with high-traffic consumer or SaaS web applicationsExperience with real-time systems, collaborative editors, or large-scale rendering pipelinesBackground with AI integrations or LLM-driven product featuresOpen-source contributions or technical writing

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 record keeping, 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.