Remote API + Developer + SaaS + Sales + Travel Jobs

### About Us\nAt Close, we're building the sales communication platform of the future. With our roots as the very first sales CRM to include built-in calling, we're leading the industry toward eliminating manual processes and helping companies to close more deals(faster). Since our founding in 2013, we've grown to become a profitable, 100% globally distributed team of ~45 high-performing, happy people that are dedicated to building a product our customers love.\n\nOur backend [tech stack](https://stackshare.io/close-crm/close) currently consists of Python Flask web apps with our TaskTiger scheduler handling many of the backend asynchronous task processing chores. Our data stores include MongoDB, Postgres, Elasticsearch, and Redis. The underlying infrastructure runs on AWS using a combination of managed services like RDS and ElasticCache and non-managed services running on EC2 instances. All of our compute runs through CI/CD pipelines that build Docker images, run automated tests and deploy to our Kubernetes clusters.Our backend primarily serves a well-documented public API that our front-end JavaScript app consumes.\n\nWe 💛open source – using dozens of open source projects with contributions to many of them, and released some of our own like ciso8601, LimitLion, SocketShark, TaskTiger, and more [here](https://github.com/closeio)\n\n### About You \nWe're looking for an experienced full-time Software Engineer to join our engineering team. Someone who has a solid understanding of web technologies and wants to help design, implement, launch, and scale major systems and user-facing features.\n\nYou should have senior level experience (~5 years) building modern back-end systems, with at least 3 years of that experience using Python.\n\nYou have hands on production experience woking with MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, or similar data stores. You have significant experience designing, scaling, debugging, and optimizing systems to make them fast and reliable. You have experience participating in code reviews and providing overall code quality suggestions to help maintain the structure and quality of the codebase. You care about the craftsmanship of the code and systems you produce.\n\nYou’re comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with a small and talented team where you're supported in your efforts to grow professionally. You are able to manage your time well, communicate effectively and collaborate in a fully distributed team.\n\nYou are located in an American or European time zone.\n\n### Bonus points if you have\n- Contributed open source code related to our tech stack\n- Led small project teams building and launching features\n- Built B2B SaaS products\n- Experience with sales or sales tools\n\n### Come help us with projects like\n- Conceiving, designing, building, and launching new user-facing features\n- Improving the performance and scalability of our GraphQL and REST API.\n- Improving how we sync millions of sales emails and calendar events each month\n- Working with Twilio's API, WebSockets, and WebRTC to improve our calling features\n- Building user-facing analytics features that provide actionable insights based on sales activity data\n- Improving our Elasticsearch-backed powerful search features\n- Improving our internal messaging infrastructure using streaming technologies like Kafka and Redis \n- Building new and enhancing existing integrations with other SaaS platforms like Google’s G Suite, Zapier, and Web Conferencing providers\n\n### Why work with us?\n- [Culture video 💚](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbyGnLhtj0o&feature=youtu.be)\n- [Our story and team 🚀](https://close.com/about/)\n- 100% remote-first company (we believe in trust and autonomy)\n- 2 x annual team retreats ✈️ [Libson Retreat Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKjyXMz-q-Q) -when travel is appropriate\n- 4 x quarterly virtual summits\n- 7 weeks PTO (includes company-wide winter holiday break)\n- 2 additional PTO days every year with the company\n- 1 month paid sabbatical every 5 years\n- $200/month co-working stipend\n- Revenue Share (after 1 year)\n- Paid parental leave (10 wks primary caregiver / 4 wks secondary caregiver)\n- 99% premiums paid for excellent medical and dental coverage, including an - - HSA option (US residents)\n- 401k matching at 6% (US residents)\n- Dependent care FSA (US residents)\n\nWe are a small team doing great things - every role is critical to the success of this company. People that are most successful at Close have a resourceful, “doer” approach and mentality. We focus on productivity, impact and quality of work. We’re looking for team members that genuinely understand the nature of being part of a small team that operates in a bootstrapped / start-up-like environment. \n\nAt Close, everyone has a voice. We encourage transparency and practicing a mature approach to the work-place. In general, we don’t have strict policies, we have guidelines. Life-work harmony is an important part of our organization - we believe you bring your best to work when you practice self-care (whatever that looks like for you). \n\nWe come from 12 countries and 16 states; a collection of talented humans rich in diverse backgrounds, lifestyles, and cultures. Twice a year we meet up somewhere around the world to spend time with one another (however we’re opting for quarterly virtual summits during 2020/2021). We see these retreats as an opportunity to strengthen the social fiber of our community. This team is growing in more ways than one - we’ve recently launched 14 babies (and counting!). \n\nUnanimously, our favorite and most impactful value is “Build a house you want to live in.” We strive to make decisions that are authentic for our organization. At Close, we have a high care factor for one another, in making an awesome product and championing the success of our customers.\n\nInterested in Close but don't think this role is the best fit for you? View our [other positions](https://jobs.lever.co/close.io/). \n\nPlease mention the words **HURRY TURKEY WRITE** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4yNTA=). This is a feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human.\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n $90,000 — $180,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n ⏰ Async\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n
\n\n#Location\n Americas & European Time Zones - 100% Remote

Looking to join a fun, highly-talented team that’s working on an edtech product the world really needs right now?\n\nLearnCube is on a mission to transform live online education across the globe. Through our award-winning online classroom and online school, we help education entrepreneurs to succeed online. We also have a special strength in online language education, where we work with iconic language education companies like Babbel.\n\nWe're growing fast and need your help.\n\n\n**More about LearnCube and our development stack:**\n \nLearnCube is a leading edtech SAAS provider. Our Virtual Classroom and Online School platform makes it easy for language teachers and tutors to teach online professionally. \n \nLearnCube’s customers are individual tutors, edupreneurs, online language schools and tutoring companies.\n \nWe’re a fast-growing company founded in 2014, based in London but with a “remote-first” culture. \n \nAs a web developer for LearnCube, you will be working with a close, highly-talented team on our online classroom and online school products.\n \nYou will have so much more opportunity to learn, contribute and grow professionally with a startup like LearnCube, than you would from working for a big but soulless technology company.\n\nWe use vue.js, Python and Django to build our cutting-edge solution but there’s also plenty of room to build your skills, experiment and play with other exciting technologies.\n\n\n**What you’ll do:**\n\n- Contribute to online classroom features and new products. For example, in the last year, we released new homework, large group classroom and breakout room features for our online classroom. \n- Improve the experience for our school administrators, teachers and students through learning analytics and data logging. \n- Scaling infrastructure is not the focus of your work but we offer a unique opportunity to gain experience if you’re curious. COVID-19 has increased the number of classes we deliver by more than 10-fold with more high-potential opportunities on the horizon. \n- Collaborate with other areas of LearnCube - customer support, customer success and sales - to improve the business, user experience and customer experience.\n- Provide some technical customer support for customer queries, especially for our VIP customers using our API products.\n- Keep up-to-date with best practices and technology.\n- Support research and development of our most innovative ideas within our “Learncube Labs” including smart ways to improve education through A.I.\n\n\n**More about the role:**\n\n- Competitive salary with a generous vacation policy and company bonus.\n- This a remote position. There is no office!\n- There is a lot of opportunity to grow your career into a leadership role if that is your desired path.\n\n\n**Criteria for a successful candidate:**\n\n- Honest, humble, highly competent, fast-learner, self-starter and motivated by the mission\n- Minimum of 3+ years of software development experience\n- Excellent communication skills and ability to work in a team\n- Attention to detail\n- Shows initiative and not shy from taking on responsibility and projects\n- Ability to adapt and grow (startup life isn’t a straight line)\n- Able to overlap with European business hours at least once per day\n\n\n**Bonus points for a successful candidate:**\n\n- Some experience with VueJS\n- Some experience with Django\n- Some experience with MySQL\n- Experience with WebRTC / Websockets\n- Experience with Redis\n- Experience with AWS tech stack\n- API gateway, Lambda, DynamoDB, ELB, EC2, RDS\n- Experience with Elasticsearch\n- Design / UX skills\n- Association or experience with tutoring or learning spoken languages\n- Startup experience\n- Evidence of creating your own products and solutions\n\n\n**Non-negotiables**\n\n- Are you a team player and a good person? We have a strict no d///head policy and are not looking for “programming purists”.\n- Do you have a strong interest in education and edtech? \n- Are you fluent in spoken and written English? Note, you don’t have to be a perfect native speaker.\n- Do you already share our values: honesty, trust, grit, motivation, and energy?\n- Can you demonstrate strong skills in customer support and care, understanding how to work with people and getting them the help they need?\n- Can you provide evidence of at least 6-12 months of experience working at least 20 hours a week remotely?\n \n \n**LearnCube perks and path**\n\n- Freedom to live wherever you like as long as you have reliable internet and a permanent residence.\n- Annual all-expenses-paid team trip to an exciting location in Europe (when it's properly safe to travel again).\n- A clear career path to lead part of our development and product team as we grow.\n- We offer a supportive, safe and fun work environment. Whatever gender, race, sexuality, nationality, religion, education, languages or quirks you have (or don’t), we don’t mind. Just bring strong values of honesty, trust, grit, motivation, and energy.\n- We’ll provide a monthly contribution towards your home-office or favourite local co-working space.\n- Loads of opportunity for professional development.\n- Oh… and you’ll feel much more motivated knowing you’re changing the world for the better; improving both the access to and quality of education across the world.\n\n\n**Final words**\n \nAside from the non-negotiables, please don’t worry if you can’t check absolutely every criteria above (you’re probably more awesome than you think).\n\n \n\nPlease mention the words **BOAT GUARD PURITY** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4yNTA=). This is a feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human.\n\n \n\n#Location\nWorldwide

\n[Note: we are open to remote work but only if you can spend a minimum of one day per week in our Belfast office.]\n\nTHE ROLE\nYou’ll be the person responsible for building the front-ends to Opal, a cloud platform to create and manage Structured Documents: documents represented as data, created and managed programatically.\n\nYou'll be using JavaScript, React, HTML, and CSS to make the user experience sing. We don’t want your typical ugly enterprise app: it has to be elegant, delightful to use, and enticing during a demo.\n\nAs well as a magnificent web front-end, you’ll be working with Microsoft’s Office 365 JS API & Office Fabric to build document editing services right into the Word app.\n\nOur clients will generally be financial firms in the world’s leading financial centers, primarily New York City and London. You may need to travel occasionally, but not often.\n\nWe don’t care about prior experience in our industry (fintech); frankly we’d love it if you came from a design agency or other non-enterprise background. We want someone to build a wonderful user experience, and you can learn about the business domain while doing so.\n\nYOUR RESPONSIBILITIES\nYou’ll be doing some or all of the following:\n\n\n* working with our product manager to refine the UI/UX requirements\n\n* coding the front-end for the web and Office apps\n\n* writing some basic test packs. We won’t go overboard but we aren’t flying by the seat of our pants, either\n\n* in partnership with the CTO, the technical lead, and the rest of your team, defining and implementing standards for how we work: our agile methodology, coding standards, development tools, deployment practices, and more. This is a green field development and we want to use tomorrow’s best practices today.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWHO WE WANT \nWe are looking for a smart person with initiative and good judgment, who works well with others, and who will always look to balance the urgent needs of clients with the long-term technical architecture for our product.\n\nYou need to have:\n\n\n* excellent verbal and written communication skills\n\n* an eye for good design. You won’t be getting detailed wireframes, so your role will be at least partly that of a designer\n\n* a minimum of three years’ experience using client-side web technologies with a solid knowledge of HTML5 and CSS3, preferably gained from working at a design agency or product company\n\n* experience with ReactJS and knowledge of Node JS and webpack, as well as a unit testing framework such as Jest\n\n* prior experience working in agile \n\n* a pragmatic, get-it-done approach to things developers often don’t like e.g. writing tests, updating documentation, and talking to clients\n\n* a desire to learn new things. For example, we have a Ruby on Rails API, so there is an opportunity for someone who has good front end skills to become a full stack developer.\n\n\n\n\nA degree in Comp Sci or equivalent is great, but it’s not essential. It’s most important that you have good coding & design skills.\n\nAny of these things will help you stand out:\n\n\n* opinions – preferably grounded in knowledge and experience \n\n* experience on a team that has implemented a good continuous integration strategy (or if not, an awareness of the benefits of these strategies so you can champion them within the role)\n\n* Office 365 JS API experience would be wonderful (we know it’s a bit niche)\n\n* experience with Bootstrap or similar – we’ll be using Office Fabric, a similar library from Microsoft\n\n* working with RESTful API back-end components\n\n* development of a SaaS web product \n\n* experience working within a distributed development model i.e. with people in other locations and time zones. We’ll mostly be Belfast-based, but we may use specialists in other places such as sales engineers in London and New York. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nWHAT WE OFFER\n\nSalary is dependent on your experience and skillset. As well as the basics - competitive pay and benefits – we offer work on a greenfield product, in a small startup-like team. We’ll invest so you have good tools to work with and we’ll keep your skills up-to-date with a budget for technical books, training, and the like. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to JavaScript, React, Finance, Design, Executive, Developer, Digital Nomad, CSS, Node, Ruby, API, Travel, Sales and SaaS jobs that are similar:\n\n $65,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n