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

  • Architect and deliver multi-tenant commerce services for checkout, subscriptions, payments, invoicing, and tax.
  • Own protobuf and ConnectRPC API conventions, versioning, compatibility, and deprecation practices.
  • Design resilient payment systems using idempotency, retries, circuit breakers, Saga/outbox patterns, and graceful degradation.
  • Ensure auditability through ledgers, immutable event streams, traceability, and financial reconciliation.
  • Define error contracts, compensating actions, backfills, and automated replay across failure domains.
  • Own service catalogs, SLO scorecards, infrastructure limits, capacity planning, and operational standards.
  • Lead observability, production excellence, incident response, disaster recovery, and multi-region strategies.
  • Embed security and compliance controls for PCI scope reduction, secrets management, privacy, and data retention.
  • Establish developer enablement practices including service templates, ADRs, contract testing, and performance tooling.
  • Provide organization-wide technical leadership through design reviews, mentoring, hiring, roadmap planning, and cross-functional partnership.

Requirements

  • 10+ years building and operating backend systems, including 5+ years with Go.
  • 2–3+ years as a Staff or Principal Engineer or technical lead for critical systems.
  • Proficiency with protobuf, ConnectRPC/gRPC, API lifecycle management, versioning, compatibility, contract testing, and Buf.
  • Strong distributed-systems knowledge, including idempotency, deduplication, ordering, backpressure, and concurrency control.
  • Experience with GCP Pub/Sub, Redis, MongoDB or Firestore, ClickHouse, Kubernetes/GKE, and CI/CD.
  • Experience operating scalable Kubernetes environments with autoscaling, PDBs, resource controls, multi-region topologies, and canary or blue-green deployments.
  • Expertise in reliability engineering, including SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, load testing, incident management, and disaster recovery.
  • Knowledge of security, PCI fundamentals, KMS, secrets management, data retention, and compliance practices.
  • Experience with unit, integration, contract, property-based, and performance testing.
  • Strong technical writing and communication skills; Vue.js and TanStack Query collaboration experience preferred.
  • Experience with payment service providers, local payment rails, active-active systems, chaos engineering, OpenTelemetry, FinOps, or PCI DSS/SOC 2/ISO 27001 preferred.

Benefits

  • Global, remote-first work environment.
  • Equal opportunity employment.
  • Applicant privacy protections and voluntary demographic-information disclosure.

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