Job Description
About HighLevel
HighLevel is a cloud-based, all-in-one white-label marketing and sales platform that empowers marketing 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, from marketing agencies to entrepreneurs to small businesses and beyond. Our platform empowers users across industries to streamline operations, drive growth, and crush their goals.
HighLevel processes over 15 billion API hits and handles more than 2.5 billion message events every day. Our platform manages 470 terabytes of data distributed across five databases, operates with a network of over 250 micro-services, 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
Every month, 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. Behind those numbers are real people growing their companies, connecting with customers, and making their mark - and we get to help make that happen.
Learn more about us on our YouTube Channel or Blog Posts
About the Role
We’re hiring a Software Development Engineer III (SDE III) who loves owning features end-to-end and can move seamlessly between backend architecture and frontend delivery.
Must-have skills:
Expert-level Node.js and deep hands-on experience with MongoDB (complex queries, aggregations, indexing, sharding)Strong production experience with Redis (caching, rate-limiting, pub/sub, distributed locks)Proven ability to build responsive, high-quality UIs with any modern framework (Vue.js is a big plus; React/Angular also perfectly fine)Real-world experience designing and running microservices on KubernetesSolid track record shipping scalable, reliable systems on any major cloud platform (GCP, AWS, or Azure)You write clean, modular, reusable code — on both backend and frontend
What you’ll own (true full-stack impact):You’ll join the Sub-Accounts team that powers the entire end-business layer — handling hierarchy, permissions, data isolation, reporting, and performance for over 2 million end businesses (our agencies’ customers) — making sure every single one of them gets a fast, secure, and seamless experience on our platform.
This is genuine end-to-end ownership:Design and deliver new sub-account features from API to pixel-perfect UIBuild scalable microservices and event-driven workflowsOptimize performance, cost, and reliability across the entire stackHarden security and access control at every layerReduce tech debt and improve observability (logs, metrics, tracing)Work directly with product and customers to ship experiences people loveYou’ll split your time roughly 50/50 backend ↔ frontend — deep systems work one sprint, beautiful UI the next.
If you get excited about building complex hierarchy & permission systems, love shipping complete features fast, and want to make sub-accounts feel effortless for thousands of users — this role is made for you.
