Software Development Engineer II - Commerce

High Level is an AI-powered business operating system that gives agencies, entrepreneurs and SMBs the infrastructure to build, automate and scale. Today, High Level supports SMBs across 150+ countries, fueling community-driven growth rooted in real customer outcomes.

To date, businesses operating on High Level have generated over $7 billion in ecosystem value, demonstrating the impact of shared infrastructure at scale.

By centralizing conversations, automation and intelligence into one system, we help businesses move faster, reduce complexity and execute efficiently.

Behind the platform, High Level powers more than 4 billion API hits and 2.5 billion message events daily. With 250 terabytes of distributed data, 250+ microservices and over 1 million domain names supported, our architecture is built for performance, resilience and long-term scalability.

With over 2,000 team members across 10+ countries, High Level operates as a global, remote-first organization built for speed and ownership. We value initiative, clarity and execution, creating space for ambitious people to build systems that support millions of businesses worldwide. Here, innovation thrives, ideas are celebrated and people come first, no matter where they call home.

Every month, High Level enables more than 1.5 billion messages, 200 million leads and 20 million conversations for the more than 1 million businesses we support. Behind those numbers are real people building independence, expanding opportunity and creating measurable impact. We’re proud to be a part of that.

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The Commerce & Payments team is a newly formed organization to add High Level’s evolving capabilities and make it both a Commerce Platform and a surface where our customers can perform their sales motions for their products. Building Catalogs, subscriptions, fulfillment , payment processing engines, inventory mgmt, pricing, documents/contracts and more to enable our SMBs to increase their revenue will be the core focus of the org.

Hardly any tech debt, mostly green field work working closely with product folks to build, ship and refine our Commerce offerings makes this an exciting place to learn, engage and thrive.

We’re building a global commerce platform to power $1T+ in annual transactions for millions of SMEs. As an SDE III, you’ll design core models—subscriptions, payments, reconciliation , and tax —plus the services around them. You’ll define event contracts , data policies , and consistency guarantees to ensure every transaction is correct by design, traceable, and delightful at scale.

• Design and ship multi-tenant services: checkout, subscriptions, payments orchestration, invoicing, tax hooks
• Integrate PSPs and local methods (UPI, wallets, BNPL, cards/3DS) with resilient webhooks and idempotent APIs / Implement an append-only double-entry ledger; apply event sourcing/CQRS where it improves scale and correctness
• Write production-grade code with deep test coverage and Open Telemetry instrumentation
• Operate on GKE with CI/CD, autoscaling, SLIs/SLOs, and on-call ownership
• Collaborate with PM/Design and mentor junior engineers

• 2+ years in software development
• Experience with MongoDB/Firestore, Redis, and event-driven systems (Kafka, Pub/Sub)
• Strong distributed systems fundamentals: idempotency, retries, ordering, concurrency, and consistency
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and GCP; familiarity with secrets/KMS and PCI basics
• Deep testing discipline: unit, integration, contract, and performance testing
• Schema design for scale and backward compatibility
• Excellent debugging and problem-solving…