Lead Engineer - Whatsapp

2 hours, 3 minutes ago
Full-time
Lead
Software Development
HighLevel

HighLevel

HighLevel provides an all-in-one sales and marketing platform that agencies can white label and resell, offering tools and resources designed to help businesses consolidate their marketing efforts and achieve their growth objectives.

Internet Software & Services
251-1K
Founded 2018
$60M raised

Description

  • Stabilize and scale mission-critical WhatsApp platform services by addressing bottlenecks, improving fault tolerance, and ensuring high availability.
  • Optimize resource usage across CPU, memory, and network to support millions of operations while reducing cloud costs.
  • Lead long-term refactoring and modernization efforts, including deprecating legacy systems and introducing scalable patterns.
  • Strengthen security, data protection, access controls, and auditability across the WhatsApp infrastructure.
  • Improve tooling, observability, automation, and developer workflows to increase engineering velocity.
  • Collaborate with product, infrastructure, and cross-functional engineering teams to align on platform priorities and delivery.
  • Design robust APIs and improve end-to-end delivery pipelines for the WhatsApp ecosystem.
  • Guide engineers, set architectural standards, and help drive the long-term platform roadmap.
  • Own architectural decisions and resolve complex technical problems across distributed, high-scale systems.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of backend engineering experience, including work on fault-tolerant and high-scale systems.
  • Deep expertise in distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and asynchronous job processing.
  • Strong experience with relational and NoSQL data models, especially complex temporal data.
  • Proven ability to architect complex systems and deliver scalable, high-performance web applications in production.
  • Strong understanding of software design patterns, API design, and microservices architecture in a multi-tenant environment.
  • Experience with code quality practices, automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and dev tooling optimization.
  • Excellent problem-solving skills and clear, collaborative communication.
  • Experience guiding technical architecture, making high-impact engineering decisions, and mentoring engineers.
  • Preferred experience with AI tools and contributions to open-source tools, internal platforms, or engineering blogs.
  • Preferred experience with modern front-end frameworks such as React, Vue, or Angular and building full-stack web applications.

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