HighLevel

Software Development Engineer III (CRM - Opportunities - AI)

Remote (India) · Senior · Remote

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About HighLevel:
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 peopleWith 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 impactEvery 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 seeking an SDE-3 Backend Builder to own the CRM Opportunities product end-to-end. Opportunities is the deal and pipeline engine at the heart of our CRM — the system of record for every revenue motion our customers run, from lead conversion to closed-won.

This role emphasises deep backend ownership: designing data models, APIs, and distributed workflows that power pipelines, stages, automations, reporting, and integrations at scale. You will operate with high autonomy, turning ambiguous problems into production systems, with enough frontend fluency to ship the occasional UI surface without waiting on anyone.

Opportunities is also where a growing set of AI-assisted features live — things like surfacing what needs attention in a pipeline, summarising deal context, and suggesting next steps. To be clear about the shape of that work: we are not training or serving models. These features are built on top of existing AI capabilities, and the engineering problem is the product plumbing around them — assembling the right context from CRM data, keeping latency and cost sane, handling failure and non-deterministic output gracefully, and making the results trustworthy enough for a customer to act on. You do not need an ML background; you need the judgement to build a reliable product feature on top of a probabilistic dependency.

What you will do:

Own the full lifecycle of the Opportunities backend: translate business and customer needs into scalable, production-grade services

Design and evolve the data model for pipelines, stages, deals, and associated entities — getting consistency, throughput, and query patterns right

Build and scale APIs, event-driven workflows, and background jobs that handle high-volume writes, automations, and integrations

Tackle distributed systems concerns: idempotency, eventual consistency, race conditions, hot tenants, and noisy-neighbor isolation

Improve performance and reliability of large pipelines (millions of opportunities per workspace) through indexing, sharding, caching, and query optimization

Build the AI-assisted surfaces of Opportunities on top of existing AI capabilities — context assembly from CRM data, prompt and response contracts, caching, cost and latency budgets, graceful degradation when a call is slow, wrong, or unavailable, and a feedback loop for measuring output quality

Ship end-to-end when needed — including UI changes in Vue — without blocking on cross-functional handoffs

Instrument the system: logs, metrics, traces, and SLOs that make production behavior legible

Drive incident response, postmortems, and the engineering hygiene that keeps a high-traffic product healthy

What you will need:

4+ years building and operating production backend systems at scale

Strong fundamentals in data modeling (SQL and NoSQL), API design, and distributed systems

Hands-on experience with Node.js or Go in production

Track record of owning services end-to-end — design, build, deploy, on-call

Comfort working independently in ambiguous problem spaces with high ownership

Solid grasp of scalability, performance, and reliability trade-offs

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience building CRM, sales, pipeline, or workflow products

Worked on multi-tenant SaaS at scale (sharding, tenant isolation, fair-use limits)

Familiarity with event streaming (Kafka/Redis Streams), queues, and async processing

Exposure to MongoDB, Postgres, ElasticSearch, ClickHouse, or similar at non-trivial scale

Have shipped a customer-facing feature backed by an LLM or similar AI API — and have opinions on where it worked and where it did not. No modelling or ML-infrastructure background required

Frontend fluency in Vue.js — enough to ship a feature without a frontend partner

Strong product instincts and a portfolio or GitHub of shipped work

Tech Skill Set:

Node.js (NestJS), Go, Vue.js, MongoDB, Redis, Kafka / Pub-Sub, ElasticSearch — running on a distributed microservices architecture over Istio service mesh, with AI-assisted features built on top of existing AI/LLM APIs.

What Success Looks Like:

Ships Opportunities features from idea to production with minimal cycle time

Builds services that stay reliable as workspaces grow from thousands to millions of deals

Makes sound trade-offs between speed, quality, and long-term maintainability

Ships AI-assisted features that customers actually trust — useful often enough to matter, and well-behaved when the underlying call is not

Raises the bar on data correctness, API design, and operational excellence for the product

Continuously sharpens the customer experience through iteration and instrumentation

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