Remote API + Engineering + Redis + Sales Jobs

Over the last few decades, technological innovation has relied on democratizing some of its key ingredients: knowledge (open publishing platforms), algorithms (code repositories) and computing (cloud providers). However, the last key component, data, largely remains trapped behind barriers of regulation, privacy, schema standards and competitive risk. Enabling scalable access to data will unlock enormous value for both individual developers and companies. This has only been made possible in the last few years, through advances in manifold learning algorithms and privacy-preserving computing. See our blog for more details.\n\nOne of the most valuable kinds of data today is in the financial sector. Financial data plays a key role across many industry verticals. However, it has notoriously been locked behind regulatory barriers and a lack of format standards. Our first product is an API that makes financial transactions accessible with minimal engineering overhead to both humans and machine-learning models in a scalable and privacy-preserving way.\n\nWe\n - are allergic to over-engineering.\n - are anarchists at heart and like to hack around the status quo.\n - are radically honest and appreciate challenging one another, rather than giving out “pats on the back”. Yet, we can always rely on each other for support, feedback and results. \n - are willing to learn and adapt quickly to new situations and requirements. Languages, frameworks, libraries, compilers, etc. are just tools for a job. A new problem might need a new tool. If it doesn’t exist yet, we will build it.\n - have a sense of humor (well, we think we do).\n\nAs an early member of our sales engineering team, you will help\n- scale and optimize our sales operations\n- shape our sales process, distribution strategy and culture.\n- experience the direct impact of what you build on hundreds of millions of people’s financial lives.\n- preparing and developing technical presentations to explain our company's products and services to customers\n- collaborating with sales teams to understand customer requirements and provide sales support\n- setting and achieving sales goals and quotas\n\nThe following are required:\n- experience with software engineering and REST APIs\n- at least 2 years of experience with the enterprise sales process\n\n\nFAQ\n\n\nWhat if I recommend someone who ends up getting hired?\n\nWe will give you 10k USD for the referral.\n\nWhere is Ntropy located?\n\nWe are fully remote, with a virtual base in New York, US.\n\nWhat time-zones is this position for?\n\nAnywhere in the US. Preferably on the east coast. \n\nDo you consider part-time work?\n\nNot at the moment. Full-time roles only.\n\nHow are you funded?\n\nWe are backed by some of the top fintech investors in the world. Have raised single-digit millions of dollars so far. Can share more details over the call.\n\nDo you already have a product?\n\nYes. We have been in production since 1st April 2021 and have been rapidly growing since.\n\nDo you plan to sell customer data?\n\nNtropy is on a mission to enable products without data barriers. We will never sell customer data and will always put privacy and customer benefit ahead of any auxiliary financial gains.\n\nWhat is the interview process like?\n\n1. Send us problems you have solved before and how. Please include as much detail as possible: code, algorithms, derivations, proofs, etc. We will then do a video call to kick things off and go through it (45 mins).\n\n2. We will give you a take-home project in which you will use our API to build a simple personal finance app. Alternatively, if you have a relevant project that you worked on previously that demonstrates your skills as an engineer, you are welcome to use that instead.\n\n3. We will then do a deep-dive through the project over a call and discuss the implementation, improvements and bottlenecks.\n\nAbove all, we respect your time and commitment and will keep you up to speed on where we are at during the whole process.\n\nWhat are your hiring plans?\n\nWe aim to be 22-25 people in the next 6 months. Mostly engineering roles.\n\nWhat is your current stack?\n\nback-end - Python + Rust (where performance matters)\ncompute - AWS + Azure\nML - PyTorch + ONNX\ninfra - Redis (cache), RDS + S3 (storage), EKS + Lambda (auto-scaling), EC2 4xGPU nodes (training)\n\nWork / life balance?\n\nWe are a startup which requires you to put in a lot more work and soul than a regular job. We believe, however, that nothing easy is worth doing. We will expect a lot from you, and you should expect a lot from us.\n\nWhat is the compensation?\n\n$110k • 0.03% - 0.05%\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Sales, Engineer, Video, Finance, Python and API jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $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
\n\n#Location\nRemote

**About Us**\n\nAt[ Close](https://close.com/), 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 ~33 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/Gunicorn web apps with our TaskTiger scheduler handling many of the backend asynchronous task processing. 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 ](https://developer.close.com/) 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](https://github.com/closeio/ciso8601), [LimitLion](https://github.com/closeio/limitlion), [SocketShark](https://github.com/closeio/socketshark), [TaskTiger](https://github.com/closeio/tasktiger), and more at https://github.com/closeio\n\n\n**About You**\n\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 also have around five years experience using 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.\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\n**Bonus point if you have**\n\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\n* Conceiving, designing, building, and launching new user-facing features\n* Improving the performance and scalability our API. Help expand our GraphQL implementation.\n* Improving how we [sync ](https://close.com/emailing/) millions of sales emails each month\n* Working with Twilio's API, WebSockets, and WebRTC to improve our [calling features](https://close.com/calling/)\n* Building user-facing analytics features that provide actionable insights based on sales activity data\n* Improving our Elasticsearch-backed powerful [search features](https://close.com/search/)\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\n**Why work with us?**\n\n* 100% Remote *(we believe in trust and autonomy)*\n* 2 x Annual Team Retreats ✈️ ([Lisbon Retreat Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKjyXMz-q-Q&feature=youtu.be))\n* Competitive salary\n* Medical, Dental with HSA option - 99% premiums paid (*US residents)*\n* 5 Weeks PTO + 6 Government Holidays + Dec 24 - Jan 1 Company Holiday\n* Parental Leave *(10 wks primary caregiver / 4 wks secondary caregiver)*\n* 401k matching at 4% *(US residents)*\n* [Our story and team](https://close.com/about/) 🚀\n* [Glassdoor Reviews ](https://www.glassdoor.co.uk/Reviews/Close-Reviews-E1155591.htm)\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. Work/Life 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 14 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. We see these retreats as an opportunity to strengthen the social fiber of our community.\n\nThis team is growing in more ways than one - we’ve recently launched 8 babies (and counting!). Unanimously, 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\n*Interested 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 **NEGLECT YEAR POSITION** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xMjU=). 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 No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Elasticsearch, Python, Senior, Engineer, Backend, Redis, Developer, Digital Nomad, JavaScript, API, Sales and SaaS jobs that are similar:\n\n $62,500 — $125,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n ⏰ Async\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n
\n\n#Location\nAMERICAS OR EUROPEAN TIME ZONE

The Ruby on Rails Engineer position is vital to the success of our company.\n\nYou’ll use your initiative in implementing API’s and integrations to address our business needs along with the rest of the engineering team. Both our clients and staff will be using the software you write. Our small and close knit engineering team currently consists of a UX specialist, 2 frontend engineers, one backend engineer, one WordPress engineer and several QA specialists. You’ll work closely with the team to implement solutions for all departments within Empire Flippers, be it compliance, customer support, sales and migrations. You’ll work closely with the frontend and WordPress engineers to ensure features are implemented correctly to the highest standard, and you’ll work closely with one more backend engineer to ensure scalability, speed, code cleanliness and readability.\n\nThe feature set will have already been decided on – it’s your responsibility to plough ahead with the implementation and to ensure the user experience is elevated to unprecedented levels and ultimately, close more deals.\n\n# Responsibilities\n We believe in hiring people that are a good fit for us culturally.\n\nA good fit is actually more important to us than the skill set since we will teach you everything you need to know.\n\nYou should have a few good years of experience under your belt, having implemented some complex, data driven applications. Your portfolio speaks louder than your words.\n\nYou should be a ninja with every component of our tech stack. You must have a complete working knowledge of RoR in API mode, SQL, Postgres, Sidekiq, Rspec, Git, Redis.\n\nExperience working with a wide range of 3rd party integrations. Our platform talks to many 3rd party applications, you should have experience building and maintaining such integrations in a test driven fashion.\n\nDev-ops/sysadmin skills. Experience with managing servers, maintaining hosting environments, being responsible for uptime and responsiveness, addressing bottlenecks, ensuring backups are kept safe and sound.\n\nYou need to have immaculate attention to detail. We need to hear you grunting and moaning if something doesn’t quite look or feel right, to the nearest code change and to the nearest hexadecimal color, to the point you become annoying to us. At times other developers may edit your code, you’ll be watching to ensure the code base remains readable, scalable and fast.\n\nBe a good communicator. It sounds very cliché, but you’ll immerse yourself in almost every department, you’ll be learning problems and presenting solutions, and also overseeing the implementation of those solutions too.\n\nA self-starter. We need to see some evidence that you’re able to get up every morning, bite the bullet and just get on with it, even if you’ve tried four coffee shops and none have decent wifi. You won’t have eyes looking over your shoulder on a day to day basis, you’ll be working in almost full autonomy, we’ll need to trust you to deliver the goods. We don’t believe in micro-management.\n\nThe following skills/experience would be a bonus, but not required:\n\nReact. Our client code is written in React. Being able to navigate the front-end code and patch things up would be a huge bonus.\n\nPHP/WordPress. We will be interfacing with WordPress significantly, being able to speak the same language would be great.\n\nDatabases. A comprehensive experience working with various types of SQL and noSQL databases would be very useful. MySQL, Postgres, DynamoDB, Cassandra, to name a few.\n\nCaching. The software we’re building needs to be fast and to remain fast as we scale, both in terms of traffic and database size. Having experience with Memcached, Redis, Varnish or experience with complicated CDN setups with many rules would be a plus. \n\n# Requirements\nHere is the sequence of events we use when hiring our Rails Engineer:\n\nYou record a YouTube video* explaining who you are and why you’re a good fit for the position, fill out an application, and submit it ASAP.\nThe deadline is the 1st of May 2019.\nWe review submissions and schedule interviews.\nSecond interviews are conducted, and a final decision is made.\nThe chosen candidate will begin in May. \n\nPlease mention the words **CAPTAIN HEART TUITION** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xMjU=). 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 No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to DevOps, Quality Assurance, PHP, NoSQL, Git, Ruby, API, Admin, Engineer, Sys Admin, Cassandra, Redis, Wordpress, Sales and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $120,000/year\n

**ABOUT US**\n\n\n\nAt Close.io we’re building the sales communication platform of the future. We’ve built a next-generation CRM that eliminates manual data entry and helps sales teams close more deals. We are hiring engineers to join our DevOps team to help take our platform to the next level by adding new features, providing better performance, and even higher reliability. We are a ~30 person entirely remote team (with ~13 engineers) that is profitable and building a product our customers love.\n\n\n\nOur backend tech stack currently consists of Python Flask/Gunicorn web apps with our TaskTiger scheduler handling many of the backend asynchronous processing tasks. Our data stores include MongoDB, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Redis. Our infrastructure runs on AWS using a combination of managed services like RDS and ElastiCache as well as EC2 instances managed by Puppet. These EC2 instances run everything from our databases to our Kubernetes clusters.\n\n\n\n**ABOUT YOU**\n\n\n\nWe're looking for a full-time DevOps Engineering Manager / Team Lead to join our core team who has significant experience in building, managing, and monitoring infrastructure and backend services at scale.\n\nIn this Team Lead role, you will be doing *both* hands-on technical work yourself *and* managing/leading a small remote team (2-3 people) of exceptional Senior SRE/DevOps Engineers.\n\n\n\n**Come help us with projects like**\n\n\n\n* Building out our Kubernetes infrastructure to include additional services, increased redundancy/scalability, and harnessing new k8s features\n\n* Scale our Elasticsearch and MongoDB clusters to support our data growth\n\n* Tune our MySQL and PostgreSQL databases\n\n* Improve our public Close.io API performance and resiliency\n\n* Tighten security across our infrastructure\n\n* Implement autoscaling techniques that balance performance, workload demands and costs\n\n* Improve our CI/CD process making builds/deployments faster and safer\n\n* Further develop our Prometheus/Grafana monitoring infrastructure\n\n* Enhance our Elasticsearch/Logstash/Kibana (ELK) logging stack\n\n\n\n**And leadership responsibilities like**\n\n\n\n* Being responsible for the happiness, well-fare, and productivity of the DevOps team; do regular 1:1s.\n\n* Leading the strategy, roadmap, and goals for the DevOps team\n\n* Coordinating with other engineers on current and upcoming infrastructure needs for Product and overall business goals\n\n* Having the primary responsibility for the stability, performance, and security of our infrastructure\n\n* Hiring/growing the team as needed, while keeping a high quality bar\n\n\n\n**You should**\n\n\n\n* Have 2+ years managing & leading an engineering team, including experience recruiting/hiring great engineers\n\n* Have a servant leadership attitude with the ability to foster a collaborative & positive energy work environment, especially when PagerDuty is calling\n\n* Have real world experience building scalable systems, working with large data sets, and troubleshooting various back-end challenges under pressure\n\n* Have significant experience with *nix, Python, bash, and Puppet or similar backend systems and frameworks\n\n* Experience working with large databases running on MySQL, PostgreSQL, and/or Mongo\n\n* Have experience configuring monitoring, logging, and other tools to provide visibility and actionable alerts\n\n* Enjoy automating processes using Python, bash, Puppet, or other scripting languages\n\n* Have experience with Docker containers and microservices\n\n* Understand the full web stack, networking, and low level Unix computing\n\n* Always be thinking of ways to improve reliability, performance, and scalability of the infrastructure\n\n\n\n**Why work with us?**\n\n\n\n* Our story and [team retreat video!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKjyXMz-q-Q&feature=youtu.be)\n\n* Stellar team reviews on [Glassdoor](https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Close-io-Reviews-E1155591.htm)\n\n* Work remotely and create your own schedule (we believe in trust and autonomy)\n\n* Enjoy face-to-face time with the whole team on all-expense paid retreats 2x year.\n\n* Experience building a truly successful SaaS company with a dedicated, small team where you can have a huge impact\n\n* Above market salary\n\n* Excellent medical & dental coverage, including 99% paid premiums and HSA option (**US residents)\n\n* Matching 401k (**US residents)\n\n\n\nInterested in DevOps but think this Team Lead role isn't the right fit? View our [SRE/DevOps Engineering role](https://jobs.lever.co/close.io/38d0c4ac-c3eb-47e9-a49e-4611f96eef8d) or all our other positions. \n\nPlease mention the words **THUMB PERSON ROUTE** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xMjU=). 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 No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to DevOps, Elasticsearch, Engineer, Redis, Executive, Python, API, Senior, Sales, SaaS, Medical and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n ⏰ Async\n\n