Software Development Engineer III - Platform
HighLevel
IndiaremotePosted 4 days ago
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Key highlights
- Senior individual contributor SDE3 – Platform Developer engineer role.
- Requires 5+ years of software engineering experience.
- Must have strong hands‑on experience with Node.js and TypeScript.
- Focus on building internal developer platforms, tooling, and workflows.
- Remote‑first, global distributed team as a key benefit.
- Supports over 1 million businesses generating >$7 billion ecosystem value.
Role overview
We are seeking an experienced SDE3 – Platform Developer engineer to help build and scale HighLevel’s internal developer platforms, tooling, and workflows. This senior individual contributor role focuses on improving developer productivity, build and release workflows, internal tooling, and platform usability while working closely with Platform, Cloud Infrastructure, and Product Engineering teams to enable engineers to ship faster and safer.
Responsibilities
- Design and build internal developer tools and platforms using Node.js, TypeScript, and Vue.js.
- Develop user-friendly interfaces and APIs that enable self-service workflows for engineers.
- Improve developer onboarding and day-to-day workflows through automation and tooling.
- Partner with Internal Developer Platform (IDP) and Platform Engineering teams on shared capabilities.
- Improve CI/CD developer experience by building tooling around build, test, and deployment workflows.
- Create abstractions and interfaces that simplify interaction with CI/CD pipelines.
- Help standardize development and release workflows across teams.
- Identify bottlenecks in the developer workflow and drive improvements.
- Build and maintain internal web applications and dashboards using Vue.js, focusing on usability, performance, and consistency across DevEx tools.
- Work closely with designers and platform engineers to deliver intuitive developer-facing experiences.
- Build backend services and APIs using TypeScript to support DevEx tooling.
- Integrate with platform services, CI/CD systems, and infrastructure APIs.
- Ensure reliability, scalability, and security of internal tools.
- Automate manual processes to reduce developer wait times and friction.
- Enable self-service capabilities for environment provisioning, access management, debugging and observability.
- Reduce reliance on ticket-based workflows through automation.
- Act as a senior engineer within the DevEx team.
- Mentor mid-level engineers and review code/designs.
- Contribute to technical standards and best practices.
- Collaborate across teams to influence developer experience improvements.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience.
- Strong hands-on experience with Node.js and TypeScript.
- Experience building internal tools or developer-facing platforms.
- Strong understanding of modern web application architecture.
- Experience collaborating with backend, platform, and infrastructure teams.
- Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.
Nice to have
- Experience building frontend applications, preferably with VueJS.
- Experience with Golang (Go) for backend or platform services.
- Familiarity with CI/CD systems and developer workflows.
- Experience building platforms or tooling at scale.
- Exposure to cloud-native or Kubernetes-based environments.
- Prior experience in DevEx or platform teams.
- Build or contribute to backend services in Go (Golang) where appropriate.
Benefits
- Remote-first organization with a global distributed team across 10+ countries.
- Over 2,000 team members fostering a culture of initiative, clarity, and execution.
- Innovation‑focused environment where ideas are celebrated and people come first.
Additional details
- About HighLevel: HighLevel is an AI‑powered business operating system that gives agencies, entrepreneurs and SMBs the infrastructure to build, automate and scale.
- HighLevel supports SMBs across 150+ countries, fueling community‑driven growth and has generated over $7 billion in ecosystem value.
- The platform handles more than 4 billion API hits and 2.5 billion message events daily, with 250 TB of distributed data, 250+ microservices, and over 1 million domain names.
- HighLevel enables more than 1.5 billion messages, 200 million leads and 20 million conversations each month for over 1 million businesses.
- EEO Statement: The company is an Equal Opportunity Employer and invites voluntary demographic information for compliance.
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