Staff Engineer - Backend

About the role

We are looking for a Staff Engineer – Backend to help design, build, and evolve the systems powering HighLevel’s CRM platform. This is a senior individual contributor role for an engineer who can solve complex backend and distributed systems problems, influence architecture across teams, and raise the engineering bar across the organization.

What you'll do

• Design and evolve highly scalable, reliable backend systems and services
• Lead architecture for complex and cross-team backend initiatives
• Design APIs, data models, event-driven workflows, and service boundaries
• Build systems capable of handling high-throughput requests and large-scale datasets
• Design asynchronous processing using queues, events, streams, and background workers

What you need

• 8–14 years in software engineering
• Node.js
• TypeScript
• System design
• SQL
• REST APIs
• Java
• Any graduate

Good to have

• Go
• MongoDB
• Microservices
• Kafka
• Redis
• Kubernetes