Lead Engineer - Funnels (Full-stack)
Summary
Lead Engineer (50% people management, 50% hands-on) for HighLevel's Funnel & Website Builder team in India, guiding multiple squads while architecting and coding scalable, real-time collaborative funnel/website rendering, publishing, and analytics at global scale. Core stack: Vue 3, Nuxt, Module Federation, NestJS, MongoDB/Firestore/Elasticsearch/ClickHouse, CDNs and microservices.
About Us
Our People
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About the Role
Responsibilities
- Contribute directly to codebases across Vue 3, Nuxt, Module Federation, / NestJS services, and supporting infrastructure
- Architecture & System DesignDesign and review architectures for scalable, low-latency, high-traffic systems, including:CDN and global traffic routing strategies
- Routing and publishing serversCaching & edge rendering layersReal-time collaborative editing pipelinesStability and performance instrumentation
- Lead architectural discussions and help teams make informed technical decisionsIdentify stability risks, performance bottlenecks, and systemic reliability gaps and drive targeted initiatives to eliminate them
- Work with infra/SRE teams to ensure systems meet global scale requirements across millions of daily page loadsDefine architectural guardrails, standards, and best practices for frontend and backend services
- Build impactful product features, performance improvements, and internal tooling
- Prototype and ship enhancements to the rendering engine, builder UX, theme system, component framework, publishing flows, or AI-powered creation features
- Debug complex production issues across distributed microservices, CDN layers, and global traffic patterns
- Improve developer experience through better tooling, automation, and build pipelines
- Manage and mentor developers across Builder squads including performance management, career growth, and technical guidance
- Lead and facilitate sprint planning, sprint creation, execution tracking, and sprint reporting
- Work with PMs, designers, and engineering managers to translate roadmap goals into executable sprint plans
- Review team deliverables and ensure engineering direction is consistent, maintainable, and aligned with long-term platform strategy
- Conduct code reviews, provide constructive feedback, and set quality standards across teamsEnsure team velocity remains high, proactively identify blockers, resource gaps, or architectural misalignment
- Encourage a culture of ownership, iterative execution, and engineering excellence
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners to refine roadmap, prioritize work, and ensure predictable delivery
Requirements
- 7+ years of full-stack engineering experience building high-scale backend systems and complex UI platforms
- Strong experience with Vue 3, Nuxt, Module Federation, and component-driven frontend architectures
- Solid backend skills with , NestJS, event-driven systems, queues, and high-throughput APIs
- Experience working with:MongoDB, Firestore, Elasticsearch, ClickHouseNginx, CDN strategies, multi-region deployments
- Caching systems, distributed architectures, proxy serversStrong understanding of real-time collaboration, rendering engines, asynchronous processing, and fault-tolerant design
- Ability to design systems prioritizing reliability, maintainability, extensibility, and performance
- Experience improving availability, stability, and responsiveness of large-scale production systems
- Comfortable defining and working with SLOs, structured logging, distributed tracing, and performance dashboards
- Strong debugging skills across frontend, backend, infrastructure, and distributed network layers
- Proven experience leading engineers or squads including mentorship and technical guidance
- Ability to drive sprint execution, reporting, stakeholder communication, and predictable delivery
- Excellent communication and ability to influence without authority
- Collaborative, pragmatic, and solution-oriented mindset
- Thrives in fast-paced environments with high product usage and large-scale impact