Lead Engineer - Revex Platform

## About us HighLevel is an AI-powered business operating system that gives agencies, entrepreneurs and SMBs the infrastructure to build, automate and scale. Today, HighLevel supports SMBs across 150+ countries, fueling community-driven growth rooted in real customer outcomes. To date, businesses operating on HighLevel have generated over $7 billion in ecosystem value, demonstrating the impact of shared infrastructure at scale. By centralizing conversations, automation and intelligence into one system, we help businesses move faster, reduce complexity and execute efficiently. Behind the platform, HighLevel powers more than 4 billion API hits and 2.5 billion message events daily. With 250 terabytes of distributed data, 250+ microservices and over 1 million domain names supported, our architecture is built for performance, resilience and long-term scalability. ## Our people With over 2,000 team members across 10+ countries, HighLevel operates as a global, remote-first organization built for speed and ownership. We value initiative, clarity and execution, creating space for ambitious people to build systems that support millions of businesses worldwide. Here, innovation thrives, ideas are celebrated and people come first, no matter where they call home. ## Our impact Every month, HighLevel enables more than 1.5 billion messages, 200 million leads and 20 million conversations for the more than 1 million businesses we support. Behind those numbers are real people building independence, expanding opportunity and creating measurable impact. We’re proud to be a part of that. Learn more about us on our YouTube Channel or Blog Posts ## About the Role We are looking for a Lead Software Engineer to join the Revex Platform team. The Revex Platform is the shared foundation that supports more than 25 product teams (Revex Pods) and powers our entire revex vertical. It serves over 35 frontend applications and 100+ backend services and workers across critical services. ## Responsibilities - Drive developer experience and system health metrics across revex vertical and ensure compliance to latest standards across the organization. - Drive measurable improvements in developer productivity, system reliability, observability, and deployment speed across 35+ frontend and 100+ backend services & workers. - Explore and adopt modern tools, including AI-powered solutions, to accelerate development and reduce repetitive work. - Identify recurring pain points, bottlenecks, and repetitive work across engineering teams, then design and deliver scalable solutions that eliminate them permanently. - Solve complex UI performance and reactivity issues to deliver fast, consistent user experiences at scale. - Define and enforce engineering standards and best practices across the organization and revex vertical. - Continuously improve CI/CD pipelines, testing, monitoring, alerting, and overall developer experience. - Mentor engineers, lead architecture discussions, conduct code reviews, and foster technical excellence and ownership. - Proactively identify and solve performance bottlenecks, scalability challenges, and security concerns in a multi-tenant environment. ## Requirements - 6+ 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 plus. - Good 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. ## Nice to Have - Proven experience treating internal platforms as products (Platform as a Product mindset) - Contributions to open-source projects, internal platforms, developer tools, or engineering blogs - Experience of Module Federation, Micro Apps and Frontend SDKs ## EEO Statement The company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. 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