Lead Engineer – LC Phone Platform
HighLevel
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: India
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About the role
- Stabilize & Scale the Platform: Tackle systemic bottlenecks, improve fault tolerance, and ensure high availability for mission-critical phone services.
- Efficiency & Performance: Optimize resource usage (CPU, memory, network) to handle millions of operations while reducing cloud costs.
- Tech Debt & Modernization: Lead long-term refactoring efforts, deprecate legacy systems, and introduce scalable patterns.
- Security & Compliance: Strengthen data protection, access controls, and auditability across the platform.
- Developer Velocity: Improve tooling, observability, and automation to accelerate engineering workflows.
- Cross-Team Collaboration: Work with product, infrastructure, and other engineering teams to align on platform priorities.
- Mentorship & Leadership: Guide engineers, set architectural standards, and drive the platform roadmap.
Requirements
- 6+ years of backend engineering experience, including designing fault-tolerant systems and working on high-scale platforms.
- Deep expertise in distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and asynchronous job processing
- Strong experience with relational and NoSQL data models (especially with complex temporal data)
- Experience with modern front-end frameworks (e.g., React, Vue, Angular) and building full-stack web applications.
- 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
- Preferred Experience: Experience with AI Tools and contributions to open-source tools, internal platforms or engineering blogs
Benefits
- Equal Opportunity Employer
- Voluntary demographic information for compliance
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
backend engineeringdistributed systemsevent-driven architecturesasynchronous job processingrelational data modelsNoSQL data modelssoftware design patternsAPI designmicroservices architectureCI/CD pipelines
Soft Skills
problem-solvingcollaborative communicationmentorshipleadershipcross-team collaboration