The Role
About HighLevel:
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 2 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 are seeking a highly skilled Lead Engineer to drive the design, development, and scaling of our Generative AI products. In this role, you will set technical direction, own critical architectural decisions, and collaborate across teams to deliver AI-driven systems at scale. You’ll balance hands-on coding with guiding best practices, ensuring our AI platforms are performant, reliable, and innovative.
Responsibilities:
- Architecture - Design the architecture and make sure it is cost-efficient and aligned to the overall architectural vision
- Implementation - Implementing major/complex parts of the product
- Ownership - Take ownership of the delivery timeline and coordinate the complete development of products
- Releases - Take ownership of the product releases, pre-plan and scale the infrastructure accordingly
- Leadership - Communicate clear goals, provide constructive feedback, manage, coach, and support the engineering team
- Quality - Maintain high standards of code quality through regular design and code reviews
Requirements:
- Proven expertise in architecting and scaling AI Agent platforms with measurable adoption
- Strong knowledge of RAG pipelines (retrieval optimization, reranking, chunking, knowledge graphs)
- Deep experience with conversational AI systems and evaluation frameworks
- Track record of scaling services to 200K+ MAUs (or equivalent scale)
- 7+ years of engineering experience, with demonstrated leadership in technical decision-making
- Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across engineering, product, and design
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
- Experience in Node.js and modern front-end frameworks (Vue.js/React/Angular) is a plus
EEO Statement:
The company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. As an employer subject to affirmative action regulations, we invite you to voluntarily provide the following demographic information. This information is used solely for compliance with government record-keeping, reporting, and other legal requirements. Providing this information is voluntary and refusal to do so will not affect your application status. This data will be kept separate from your application and will not be used in the hiring decision.
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The Company
What We Do
https://www.gohighlevel.com/quick-links
One white-labeled marketing app to rule them all. HighLevel is everything your business needs to succeed!
Capture leads using our landing pages, surveys, forms, calendars, inbound phone system & more!
Automatically message leads via voicemail, forced calls, SMS, emails, FB Messenger & more!
Use our built in tools to collect payments, schedule appointments, and track analytics
