HighLevel

Sr. SDE (Email)

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14 days ago
Remote, IndiaSenior

Responsibilities

  • Translate business goals into deployable systems and own modules from design and release through post-launch stability and improvement.
  • Design architecture, data models, workflows, versioned APIs, and implementation plans for email platform features.
  • Rapidly prototype, validate with experiments and user feedback, and iterate features to production quality using AI tools.
  • Build scalable, reliable email systems handling 40M+ emails per day, including sending infrastructure, IP pools, domains, retries, graceful degradation, and deliverability.
  • Optimize frontend rendering and state management, backend queries, caching, and latency at scale.
  • Design transactional and analytical data models and analytics using ClickHouse, MongoDB, and Firestore.
  • Integrate AI and LLM capabilities while balancing token consumption, inference cost, latency, and quality.
  • Maintain automated testing, secure handling of authentication, secrets, customer data and PII, monitoring, telemetry, evaluation loops, documentation, and workflow automation.

Requirements

  • 4+ years of experience building and operating production systems, including on-call, incident response, and fixes.
  • Production experience with Node.js and TypeScript for high-throughput backends and Vue.js or React for product user interfaces.
  • Experience designing or re-architecting systems for 10x growth, including queues, caching, partitioning, and storage tradeoffs.
  • Experience building reliable data pipelines with idempotency, deduplication, reconciliation, and robust error handling.
  • Experience modeling transactional and analytical data and querying billions of rows in ClickHouse, BigQuery, Snowflake, or similar systems.
  • Production cloud experience with GCP or AWS, including Kubernetes, Pub/Sub or SQS, managed databases, and IAM.
  • Experience writing tests alongside development and incorporating authentication, secrets, PII protection, and abuse prevention into system design.
  • Experience shipping at least one AI or LLM-powered feature to real users and explaining model choice, prompts, evaluations, cost, and latency.
  • Daily use of AI coding tools with end-to-end ownership of shipped code.
  • Ability to break down vague problems and independently deliver working solutions.
  • Preferred experience with Go, email rendering, templates, SMTP or ESPs, email deliverability, data pipelines, analytics, telemetry, strong UX and frontend sensibility, or deployed systems demonstrated through a portfolio or GitHub.

Benefits

  • Remote-first work arrangement, indicated by the #LI-Remote listing tag.

Tech Stack

AWSClickHouseGoGoogle BigQueryGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesMongoDBNestJSNode.jsReactRedisSnowflakeTypeScriptVue.js
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About HighLevel

1,001-5,000 employees

HighLevel builds a white-label, all-in-one marketing and CRM platform for agencies, entrepreneurs, and SMBs, combining lead capture, automation, email/SMS, websites and funnels, payments, and appointment management. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Dallas, it is privately held and raised $60M in private equity funding in 2024. The subscription SaaS serves customers in 150+ countries and is used by over one million businesses.

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