Lead Engineer - Courses

About Us HighLevel is an AI powered, all-in-one white-label sales & marketing platform that empowers 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, comprised of agencies, consultants, and businesses of all sizes and industries. HighLevel empowers users with all the tools needed to capture, nurture, and close new leads into repeat customers. As of mid 2025, HighLevel processes over 4 billion API hits and handles more than 2.5 billion message events every day. Our platform manages over 470 terabytes of data distributed across five databases, operates with a network of over 250 microservices, and supports over 1 million hostnames. 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 As of mid 2025, our platform powers over 1.5 billion messages, helps generate over 200 million leads, and facilitates over 20 million conversations for the more than 1 million businesses we serve each month. Behind those numbers are real people growing their companies, connecting with customers, and making their mark - and we get to help make that happen. 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.