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Director, Engineering - Marketplace & Dev Ecosystem
HighLevel
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Key highlights
- 12+ years of engineering experience
- 5+ years managing other managers or multiple teams
- Remote-first organization
- Focus on Public APIs and App Marketplace
Role overview
HighLevel is an AI-powered business operating system providing infrastructure for agencies, entrepreneurs, and SMBs to build, automate, and scale globally. We are seeking a strategic and seasoned engineering leader to lead our massive Marketplace and Developer Ecosystem, owning the engineering vision for how third-party developers, partners, and native integrations interact with our platform. In this high-impact role, you will oversee multiple squads responsible for Public APIs, Monetization infrastructure, and the App Marketplace. Your focus will be on building a world-class developer experience, ensuring API scalability, and driving revenue through robust monetization channels, all while mentoring engineering leaders and fostering a high-performance culture.
Responsibilities
- Mentor and coach Engineering Managers, Staff Engineers, and Tech Leads, fostering a culture of technical excellence and ownership
- Lead performance evaluations and create clear career distinct paths for engineers within the Marketplace organisation
- Build a resilient team capable of managing high-traffic public APIs and complex financial transactions with zero margin for error
- Translate complex business requirements into scalable technical roadmaps for the Marketplace ecosystem
- Drive process improvements to manage the lifecycle of hundreds of integrations and thousands of developer apps
- Ensure teams are set up for agile delivery while maintaining strict security and governance standards required for open platforms
- Oversee the architecture of our Public API (v1/v2), ensuring backward compatibility, versioning strategies, and high availability
- Collaborate with Product Managers to design the "Plumbing" of our economy—from payout automations to usage-based billing systems.
- Maintain high engineering quality across the SDKs, Sandbox environments, and Native Integrations
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define the strategy for the App Marketplace and Partner Program
- Design extensible architectures that allow our platform to integrate seamlessly with major players (Google, Meta, Slack) and custom solutions
Requirements
- Extensive hands-on experience with Node.js and Vue.js (or React/Angular)
- Proven track record of building/managing Public APIs, Developer Platforms, or App Marketplaces
- 12+ years of engineering experience, with at least 5+ years in leadership or management roles managing other managers or multiple teams
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field
- Strong capability in architectural decision-making regarding API versioning, backward compatibility, and system security
Nice to have
- SaaS Experience: Majority of experience in a high-growth SaaS company is a huge plus
Additional details
- HighLevel supports SMBs across 150+ countries
- Businesses operating on HighLevel have generated over $7 billion in ecosystem value
- Platform powers more than 4 billion API hits and 2.5 billion message events daily
- Architecture includes 250 terabytes of distributed data, 250+ microservices and over 1 million domain names supported
- Over 2,000 team members across 10+ countries
- Global, remote-first organization
- HighLevel enables more than 1.5 billion messages, 200 million leads and 20 million conversations for the more than 1 million businesses we support
- 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 recordkeeping, 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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