Software Development Engineer III - Custom Objects (Backend)

HighLevel is looking for a Software Development Engineer III to build systems that operate at scale, with a focus on backend system ownership, API craftsmanship, data at scale, scalability and resilience, frontend integration, and observability and production ownership.

Requirements

• 4+ years of professional engineering experience
• Strong backend-heavy fullstack background
• Deep comfort with Node.js + TypeScript
• Experience building and scaling microservices (NestJS / Express)
• Modern frontend experience (Vue 3 or similar)
• Strong understanding of: API design, data modeling, distributed systems tradeoffs, concurrency & rate limiting, real production debugging experience
• Comfortable in cloud-native environments (GCP / AWS)
• CI/CD and containerization familiarity