Engineering Manager

We're seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead the Custom Objects team. The team is responsible for designing, building, scaling, and supporting the foundation of flexible data models within the HighLevel CRM. This team enables users to model and manage any entity their business tracks, beyond standard CRM objects, empowering powerful workflows, relations, reporting, and automation. This is not a ticket-pushing or process-only role. You'll be a technical leader who

owns architectural direction, team outcomes, platform quality, and the future of one of HighLevel's most strategic building blocks.

Responsibilities:

• A team of ~10-15 engineers building the Custom Objects platform, including backend services, APIs, UI integrations, and automation support.
• Systems that allow customers to define, extend, associate, and use custom data objects with scale, performance, and safety in mind.
• A distributed system that sits at the heart of HighLevel automation, workflows, reporting, and data relationships.
• Engineering excellence from architecture and reliability to observability and performance.
• Architecture and Extensibility: Evolve the Custom Objects platform into a modular, reliable, extensible service that can support dynamic schemas, associations, and integrations across products.
• Execution and Reliability: Ensure clarity of shipping timelines, high quality, observability, and operational stability as new capabilities roll out.
• People and Culture: Hire effectively, develop talent, set engineering standards, and foster a psychologically safe, high-impact culture.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with Product, Design, and other engineering teams to define and deliver new capabilities users love.

Requirements:

• 8+ years in software engineering, with at least 2+ years managing teams building complex, high-scale, product-driven systems.
• Experience with scalable, high-availability distributed systems
• Demonstrated success mentoring engineers and developing leaders.
• Strong track record influencing architectural direction for multi-surface platforms.
• Preferable but not required: Experience with GoHighLevel's stack or similar (e. g., Node.js/TypeScript, Go, GCP, Firestore, MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch, ClickHouse).