Senior Front-End Engineer III - Platform - UI /FE

About HighLevel:

HighLevel is a cloud-based, all-in-one white-label marketing and sales platform that empowers marketing agencies, entrepreneurs, and businesses to elevate their digital presence and drive growth. With a focus on streamlining marketing efforts and providing comprehensive solutions, HighLevel helps businesses of all sizes achieve their marketing goals. We currently have 1000+ employees across 15 countries, working remotely as well as in our headquarters, which is located in Dallas, Texas. Our goal as an employer is to maintain a strong company culture, foster creativity and collaboration, and encourage a healthy work-life balance for our employees wherever they call home.

Our Website - https://www.gohighlevel.com/

YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXFiV4qDX5ipE-DQcsm1j4g

Blog Post - https://blog.gohighlevel.com/general-atlantic-joins-highlevel/

Our Customers:

HighLevel serves a diverse customer base, including over 60K agencies & entrepreneurs and 450K million businesses globally. Our customers range from small and medium-sized businesses to enterprises, spanning various industries and sectors.

Scale at HighLevel:

We work at scale; our infrastructure handles around 3 Billion+ API hits & 2 Billion+ message events monthly and over 25M views of customer pages daily. We also handle over 80 Terabytes of data across 5 Databases.

About the Team:

Currently we have millions of sales funnels, websites, attributions, forms and survey tools for lead generation. Our B2B customers use these tools to bring in the leads to the HighLevel CRM system. We are working to continuously improve the functionality of these tools to solve our customers’ business needs. In this role, you will be expected to be autonomous, guide other developers who might need technical help, collaborate with other technical teams, product, support and customer success

**Job Description:**We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Front-End Performance Engineer to join our dynamic and innovative development team. The ideal candidate is not only a proficient UI developer but also possesses a deep understanding of performance optimization techniques for web applications. You will be responsible for enhancing the performance, scalability, and user experience of our high-traffic and complex applications. As a Senior Front-End Performance Engineer, you will play a key role in leading a team, collaborating with cross-functional groups, and creatively solving challenging technical problems.

Responsibilities

Lead efforts to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks in our front-end applications.
Optimize existing codebase to enhance loading times, responsiveness, and overall user experience.
Contribute to enhancing development processes and coding standards, with a focus on performance-oriented practices.
Showcase strong engineering skills by designing and writing well-organized code. Independently handle medium to large features, completing numerous tasks without the need for constant guidance.
Possess an in-depth understanding of the assigned codebase, product area, or systems. You initiate and drive necessary changes.
Evaluate and incorporate open-source tools, libraries, and frameworks to boost development efficiency and performance.
Demonstrate effective collaboration with other teams (Support/Success, Product, Design, Platform Engineering), understanding how our organization collaborates for tasks like releases and product launches.
Provide technical leadership and mentor junior team members, guiding them in implementing performance optimization best practices.
Actively participate in code reviews, offering valuable feedback to ensure code quality and adherence to performance guidelines.

Your Core Skills

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
5+ years of experience in front-end development with a strong focus on performance optimization.
Proven track record of successfully optimizing large-scale and complex web applications.
Proficiency in Vue.js, Webpack, TypeScript, Node.js, and MongoDB is a plusDeep understanding of browser rendering behavior, network performance, and caching strategies.
Experience in leading or mentoring development teams.
Creative problem-solving skills with the ability to tackle challenging technical issues.
Strong communication and collaboration skills to work effectively in a cross-functional team environment.
Familiarity with open-source software development and contributions.
Up-to-date knowledge of industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies in front-end development and performance optimization. Note: The responsibilities and qualifications mentioned above are representative and not exhaustive, and other tasks and duties may be assigned based on business needs

EEO Statement:

At HighLevel, we value diversity. In fact, we understand it makes our organisation stronger. We are committed to inclusive hiring/promotion practices that evaluate skill sets, abilities, and qualifications without regard to any characteristic unrelated to performing the job at the highest level. Our objective is to foster an environment where really talented employees from all walks of life can be their true and whole selves, cherished and welcomed for their differences while providing excellent service to our clients and learning from one another along the way! Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.