Staff Backend Engineer - Trust & Control Safety Systems
Skills
About the role
This is a staff-level backend engineering role architecting a real-time trust, controls and safety platform at HighLevel. It suits a senior distributed-systems engineer who can set technical direction for systems covering signups, checkouts, user management and communications abuse controls, working remotely from India. The role includes mentoring engineers and partnering across teams on platform-wide problems.
What you’ll do
- Architect a real-time trust, controls and safety platform
- Lead technical direction for signups, checkouts, user management and communication usage systems
- Build a highly available, low-latency control plane balancing enforcement with user experience
- Set technical direction and mentor engineers
- Partner with cross-functional teams on complex platform problems
- Redesign data models and optimize search reliability
- Ensure system performance at scale
What they’re looking for
- At least eight years building high-scale, mission-critical backend systems
- Expertise in distributed systems
- Financial rigor in transactional domains
- Proficiency with both relational and NoSQL data models
- Track record of technical leadership
- Excellent communication skills
- Experience designing policy-driven systems
Questions about this role
Is this role remote?
Yes, the posting lists it as India Remote.
How many years of experience do I need?
At least eight years of experience building high-scale, mission-critical backend systems.
What technologies are used?
The listing names Go, Lua and JavaScript along with MongoDB, Elasticsearch, ClickHouse, Redis, Kafka and BigQuery.
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