# Lead Engineer - Funnels

**Company:** [GoHighLevel](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/gohighlevel)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Vue 3, Nuxt, Module Federation, Node.js, Nestjs, MongoDB, Firestore, Elasticsearch, ClickHouse, Nginx, Cdn, Multi-Region Deployments, Distributed Architectures, Real-Time Collaboration, Distributed Tracing
**Posted:** 2025-12-05

> Leads and mentors engineers while remaining hands-on building scalable funnel and website-builder systems. The role requires 7+ years of full-stack experience, expertise across Vue/Nuxt and Node.js/NestJS, and demonstrated ability to drive architecture, reliability, and delivery across multiple squads.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Contribute directly to codebases across Vue 3, Nuxt, Module Federation, Node.js/NestJS services, and supporting infrastructure.
- Design and review architectures for scalable, low-latency, high-traffic systems, including:
  - CDN and global traffic-routing strategies
  - Routing and publishing servers
  - Caching and edge-rendering layers
  - Real-time collaborative editing pipelines
  - Stability and performance instrumentation
- Lead architectural discussions and guide informed technical decisions.
- Identify stability risks, performance bottlenecks, and systemic reliability gaps, and drive initiatives to address them.
- Partner with infrastructure and SRE teams to meet global scale requirements across millions of daily page loads.
- Define architectural guardrails, standards, and best practices for frontend and backend services.
- Build product features, performance improvements, and internal tooling.
- Prototype and ship enhancements to the rendering engine, builder UX, theme system, component framework, publishing flows, and AI-powered creation features.
- Debug complex production issues across distributed microservices, CDN layers, and global traffic patterns.
- Improve developer experience through tooling, automation, and build pipelines.
- Manage and mentor developers across Builder squads, including performance management, career growth, and technical guidance.
- Lead sprint planning, execution tracking, and reporting.
- Translate roadmap goals into executable sprint plans with product managers, designers, and engineering managers.
- Review deliverables and ensure engineering direction is consistent, maintainable, and aligned with platform strategy.
- Conduct code reviews, provide constructive feedback, and set quality standards.
- Identify blockers, resource gaps, and architectural misalignment to maintain team velocity.
- Promote ownership, iterative execution, and engineering excellence.
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners to refine the 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 Node.js, NestJS, event-driven systems, queues, and high-throughput APIs.
- Experience with MongoDB, Firestore, Elasticsearch, ClickHouse, Nginx, CDN strategies, multi-region deployments, caching systems, distributed architectures, and proxy servers.
- Strong 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.
- Familiarity 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.
- Ability to thrive in fast-paced environments with high product usage and large-scale impact.

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