Lead Engineer - Courses

About the role

About us HighLevel is an AI-powered business operating system that gives agencies, entrepreneurs and SMBs the infrastructure to build, automate and scale. Today, HighLevel supports SMBs across 150+ countries, fueling community-driven growth rooted in real customer outcomes. To date, businesses operating on HighLevel have generated over $7 billion in ecosystem value, demonstrating the impact of shared infrastructure at scale. By centralizing conversations, automation and intelligence into one system, we help businesses move faster, reduce complexity and execute efficiently. Behind the platform, HighLevel powers more than 4 billion API hits and 2.5 billion message events daily. With 250 terabytes of distributed data, 250+ microservices and over 1 million domain names supported, our architecture is built for performance, resilience and long-term scalability.

Our people With over 2,000 team members across 10+ countries, HighLevel operates as a global, remote-first organization built for speed and ownership. We value initiative, clarity and execution, creating space for ambitious people to build systems that support millions of businesses worldwide. Here, innovation thrives, ideas are celebrated and people come first, no matter where they call home.

Our impact Every month, HighLevel enables more than 1.5 billion messages, 200 million leads and 20 million conversations for the more than 1 million businesses we support. Behind those numbers are real people building independence, expanding opportunity and creating measurable impact. We’re proud to be a part of that.

Learn more about us on our YouTube Channel or Blog Posts About the Role We’re seeking a Lead Engineer to join our Courses Team, where we empower creators and educators to build a thriving learning platform. Our platform, akin to Coursera or Udemy, connects over 700,000 monthly active users with thousands of courses, fostering interaction, learning, and community engagement. By streaming petabytes of video data and supporting white-labeled, customized mobile apps, we enable creators to deliver branded, seamless experiences to their audiences on both web and mobile platforms.You’ll play a critical role in shaping the frontend experience for a platform that serves over 700,000 users and thousands of creators. Your work will directly empower educators to build vibrant learning communities, streamline course delivery, and provide tailored, branded experiences. By solving frontend challenges and optimizing performance, you’ll contribute to a platform that connects like-minded individuals, fosters learning, and drives engagement at scale.

Responsibilities

• Drive developer experience and system health metrics across Courses vertical and ensure compliance to latest standards across the organization.

• Drive measurable improvements in developer productivity, system reliability, observability, and deployment speed

• Drive development and maintain reusable UI components, aligning with Highlevel’s design system to ensure consistency across web and mobile applications.

• Enhance load times, ensure smooth interactions, and improve rendering efficiency by minimising bottlenecks, leveraging techniques like lazy loading, code splitting, and caching strategies to support 700,000+ users.

• Guide frontend engineers by sharing best practices in performance tuning, UI development, and modern frameworks (e.g., React, Vue.js), fostering a culture of technical excellence.

• Identify and resolve UI/UX bottlenecks, accessibility gaps, security vulnerabilities, and frontend technical debt to deliver a polished user experience.

• Contribute to the design and development of backend APIs to support frontend functionality, ensuring efficient data flow and integration with application features.

• Gain deep insights into the product, customer needs, and competitors to enhance user experience and align features with creator and learner expectations.

• Partner with designers, product managers, and backend engineers to deliver high-quality, cohesive user experiences across web and mobile platforms.

• Keep up with the latest frontend technologies (e.g., WebAssembly, modern JavaScript frameworks) and advocate for tech stack improvements to enhance performance and developer productivity.

• Utilize AI-driven tools and frameworks to enhance frontend experiences, such as personalizing user interfaces, optimizing content delivery, or automating UI testing and performance analysis.

Requirements

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with strong expertise in frontend development.

• Experience with modern front-end frameworks (e.g., React, Vue, Angular) and building full-stack web applications.

• Prior work integrating or building AI-powered developer tools which improve developer productivity.

• Strong hands-on backend experience with Node.js and Cloud Platform, familiarity with Cloudflare CDN is a plusGood understanding of distributed systems, event-driven architectures, asynchronous job processing, and queuing systems

• Proven track record of architecting complex systems and delivering scalable, high-performance web apps in production.

• Strong understanding of software design patterns, API design, and microservices architecture in a multi-tenant environment.

• Skilled in guiding technical architecture, making high-impact engineering decisions, and mentoring fellow engineers.

• Experience with code quality practices, automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and dev tooling optimization.

• Excellent problem-solving skills, with clear and collaborative communication across cross-functional teams.

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