Software Development Engineer III (Courses)

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 1 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 Team:

The Courses team empowers 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.

About the Role:

We are looking for an experienced software engineer with strong technical and communication skills who has developed full stack web apps, created solid APIs and beautiful interfaces for consuming them in user friendly apps. Focusing on details and well written self documented code are essential for this position. You can expect to collaborate with a solid team of designers, product managers, developers and testers on a daily basis. You must be experienced in building highly scalable and resilient systems that can meet our customer needs.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for developing scalable backend services for memberships & courses
• Taking the lead in designing, developing and managing APIs, services
• Creating / customizing various components and web applications in Vue.js
• Work with a great team of developers, designers and QA testers
• Reviewing, writing clean, tested, manageable code for services that scale to affect thousands of users everyday
• Troubleshoot, test, and maintain the core product software and databases to ensure strong optimization and functionality

Qualifications:

• 4+ years of solid Experience in Full stack engineering with Node.js and modern Javascript frameworks like Vue.js[preferred], React.js, Angular.
• Proficient in building scalable applications and should be comfortable understanding the flow of the software
• Experience with relational/non-relational databases ex: MySQL / MongoDB / Firestore and have used them to build backend services
• Ability to design and build web services, and integrations with third parties through API
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git / SVN
• Experience with GCP technologies
• Experience with Stripe integrations
• Experience building media streaming applications

EEO Statement:

At HighLevel, we value diversity. In fact, we understand it makes our organisation stronger. We are committed to inclusive hiring/promotion practices that evaluate skill sets, abilities, and qualifications without regard to any characteristic unrelated to performing the job at the highest level. Our objective is to foster an environment where really talented employees from all walks of life can be their true and whole selves, cherished and welcomed for their differences while providing excellent service to our clients and learning from one another along the way! Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.