Lead Engineer – Courses

Role Overview

• Drive developer experience and system health metrics across Courses vertical and ensure compliance to latest standards across the organization.
• Drive measurable improvements in developer productivity, system reliability, observability, and deployment speed.
• Drive development and maintain reusable UI components, aligning with Highlevel’s design system to ensure consistency across web and mobile applications.
• Enhance load times, ensure smooth interactions, and improve rendering efficiency by minimising bottlenecks, leveraging techniques like lazy loading, code splitting, and caching strategies to support 700,000+ users.
• Guide frontend engineers by sharing best practices in performance tuning, UI development, and modern frameworks (e.g., React, Vue.js), fostering a culture of technical excellence.
• Identify and resolve UI/UX bottlenecks, accessibility gaps, security vulnerabilities, and frontend technical debt to deliver a polished user experience.
• Contribute to the design and development of backend APIs to support frontend functionality, ensuring efficient data flow and integration with application features.
• Gain deep insights into the product, customer needs, and competitors to enhance user experience and align features with creator and learner expectations.
• Partner with designers, product managers, and backend engineers to deliver high-quality, cohesive user experiences across web and mobile platforms.
• Keep up with the latest frontend technologies (e.g., WebAssembly, modern JavaScript frameworks) and advocate for tech stack improvements to enhance performance and developer productivity.
• Utilize AI-driven tools and frameworks to enhance frontend experiences, such as personalizing user interfaces, optimizing content delivery, or automating UI testing and performance analysis.

Requirements

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with strong expertise in frontend development.
• Experience with modern front-end frameworks (e.g., React, Vue, Angular) and building full-stack web applications.
• Prior work integrating or building AI-powered developer tools which improve developer productivity.
• Strong hands-on backend experience with Node.js and Cloud Platform, familiarity with Cloudflare CDN is a plus
• Good understanding of distributed systems, event-driven architectures, asynchronous job processing, and queuing systems
• Proven track record of architecting complex systems and delivering scalable, high-performance web apps in production.
• Strong understanding of software design patterns, API design, and microservices architecture in a multi-tenant environment.
• Skilled in guiding technical architecture, making high-impact engineering decisions, and mentoring fellow engineers.
• Experience with code quality practices, automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and dev tooling optimization.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, with clear and collaborative communication across cross-functional teams.

Tech Stack

• Angular
• Cloud
• Distributed Systems
• JavaScript
• Microservices
• Node.js
• React
• Vue.js