About the role
HighLevel is hiring a Lead Engineer for its AI Studio team - the group building an AI-based React application builder that generates production-ready websites and apps from natural language prompts. You'll drive technical direction for prompt-driven app generation, component/layout creation, real-time preview, and one-click deployment across the product ecosystem.
What you'll do
Own architecture and scaling decisions for core AI Studio platform components
Build scalable, fault-tolerant LLM pipelines for content generation and layout creation
Design distributed systems handling high-throughput generative and analytical workloads
Implement hallucination mitigation strategies - structured outputs, verification layers, retrieval guards
Mentor engineers through code reviews and design discussions as a hands-on individual contributor
What we're looking for
6++ years of relevant experience
6+ years of backend engineering experience, including distributed system design at high scale
Strong proficiency in Go (Golang) for high-performance concurrent backend services, alongside Node/NestJS
Hands-on experience with edge/serverless services (Cloudflare Workers or comparable)
Deep expertise in event-driven architectures and high-throughput data pipelines
Fluency in LLM integrations, vector search, embeddings, and RAG patterns
Strong command of PostgreSQL and NoSQL data models
Nice to have
Familiarity with frontend architecture using VueExperience with Prometheus/Grafana or OpenTelemetry for observability