We are looking for US-based Senior and Staff level engineers to join our team. Base salary range is $140,000 to $200,000. These are fully remote positions. Read on to learn more!
About Us
Close is a bootstrapped, profitable, 100% remote, ~90 person team of thoughtful individuals who value autonomy and impact. We’re eager to make a product our customers fall in love with over and over again.
We ❤️ startups & SMBs. Since 2013, we’ve been building a CRM that focuses on better communication, without the hassle of manual data entry or complex UI. Our goal: double the productivity of every sales rep.
Our backend tech stack currently consists primarily of Python Flask web apps with our TaskTiger scheduler handling many of the backend asynchronous task processing chores. Our data stores include MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, and Redis. The underlying infrastructure runs on AWS using a combination of managed services like EKS, MSK, 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. Our infrastructure is heavily automated using Terraform, Ansible and other AWS tools.
We’re looking for high achieving full-time Software Engineers to join our engineering team. Someone who has a good understanding in web technologies and wants to help design, implement, launch, and scale major systems and user-facing features.
You'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're able to manage your time well, communicate effectively and collaborate in a fully distributed team.
Requirements...
Senior/Staff level candidates should have 5+ years experience building modern back-end systems. Mid-level candidates should have ~3 years of similar experience and be eager to level up with the right opportunity.
Python experience is preferred but experience in other languages is acceptable if you have a desire to work with Python.
You have hands-on production experience working with MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, or similar data stores.
You have experience designing, scaling, debugging, and optimizing systems to make them fast and reliable.
You have participated in code reviews and provided 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.
Located in the USA.
Bonus point if you have…
Contributed open source code related to our tech stack
Led small project teams building and launching features
Built B2B SaaS products
Worked with complex architectures that support multiple APIs (e.g. REST, GQL, WebSockets) as well as async task and event processing frameworks
Come help us with projects like...
Conceiving, designing, building, and launching new user-facing features
Improving the performance and scalability of our GraphQL andREST API.
Improving how we sync millions of sales emails and calendar events each month
Working with Twilio's API, WebSockets, and WebRTC to improve our calling features
Building user-facing analytics features that provide actionable insights based on sales activity data
Improving our Elastic search-backed powerful search features
Improving our internal messaging infrastructure using streaming technologies like Kafka and Redis
Building new and enhancing existing integrations with other SaaS platforms like Google’s G Suite, Zapier, and Web Conferencing providers
🌏 Why Close?
Watch our most recent culture video featuring our annual team retreat in Italy
100% remote company
Choose between working 5 days/wk (standard full-time) or 4 days/wk @ 80% pay
5 weeks PTO + Winter Holiday Break with 2 additional PTO days for every year with the company
1 month paid sabbatical every 5 years
Paid parental leave
Medical, Dental, Vision with HSA option (US residents)
Build a house you want to live in -- Examine long-term thinking and action
No BS -- Practice transparency and honesty, especially when it’s hard
Invest in each other -- Build successful relationships with your coworkers and customers
Discipline equals freedom -- Keep your word to yourself and others
Strive for greatness -- Constantly challenge yourself and others
How We Work Together
Productivity, Quality & Impact: We don’t track hours. We trust you’re an adult and know best how to prioritize, meet your goals and contribute at a high level.
Asynchronous communication & collaboration: We have team members all over the world. We don’t expect anyone to work untraditional hours, that means our default is async. Most teams have 2-5 hours of internal meetings weekly.
Appreciation for Deep Work: *During your normal work day, not after a day of meetings*.
Autonomy & Freedom: Create a work environment that is sustainable for you. We place a high amount of trust and responsibility with our team members from the start.
Working from 22+ countries, we’re a collection of talented humans rich in diverse backgrounds, lifestyles, and cultures. Close has been 100% remote since 2016, creating an intentional workplace around asynchronous communication and collaboration. Every year we meet up somewhere around the world to spend time with one another. These gatherings are an opportunity to strengthen the relationships within our global community.
We practice a mature approach to the workplace -- manage your time effectively, communicate thoughtfully with your teammates and customers, and produce high quality work. We have impressive tenure amongst the team; we stay at Close because we love working with our colleagues, we appreciate the autonomy and we thrive in an environment that challenges us to do our best work.
Unanimously, our favorite value is “Build a house you want to live in.” We make decisions that are rooted in helping our customers become more successful. We care equally about the health of our business and the wellbeing of our people.
Our application process was designed to promote equitable and unbiased hiring practices. We ask a small series of questions that are similar to what would be asked in the first interview. This helps us learn more about you right from the start so please be sure to answer each question thoughtfully. Each application will receive two screens by two different reviewers. Regardless of fit, you will hear back from us letting you know if we'll be moving forward.
While we are excited by all the opportunities that generative AI has unlocked, we request that you refrain from relying on AI tools when completing an application. We ask these questions because we want to get to know you, your experience, and your communication style. All responses are read closely by multiple humans and any obviously AI generated applications will be disregarded.
Interested in Close but don't think this role is the best fit for you? View our other positions.
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### 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 (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xMjQ=). 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
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Do you love clean code?\n\nDo you love exploring new technologies and programming languages?\n\nIf all of these sound appealing and you have a passion for software engineering we want you!\n\nWe are a fast growing, profitable SAAS product for ecommerce looking for like-minded individuals to join our team.\n\nWe are a remote team, and our customer base is primarily USA and Europe.\n\nWe are currently looking to hire a Senior Front End Developer\n\n* JavaScript with ECMAScript 6.\n* CSS with any responsive framework.\n* Charting experience.\n* At least one front end framework (Angular, React, Vue, etc)\n* Frontend architecture.\n* Website optimisation.\n* Experience with a backend framework.\n\n(We use Ruby on Rails)\n\n\nTravel\n\nWith the role, you may need to travel for meet ups.\n\nNext meet up: Japan (All of September 2017)\n\n\nREQUIRED\nSend the following to Antoni at [email protected]\n\n- Cover Letter Required\n\n- Up to date Resume / CV\n\n- Expected Monthly Salary (Full Time)\n\n- Tell us what cool new technology/language you have been trying out?\n\n- What is the latest technical book you have read?\n\n- Please send me links to your recent work?\n\n- What is the biggest project you have done?\n\nHiring Process\n\n- Cover Letter and CV Review\n\n- Coding Test (3 Hours)\n\n- Technical Interview\n\n- Co-Founder Interview \n\nPlease mention the words **PICTURE SIMPLE FALL** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xMjQ=). 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 JavaScript, React, Angular, Ruby, Front End, Developer, Digital Nomad, CSS, Travel, Senior, SaaS, Backend and Ecommerce jobs that are similar:\n\n
$60,000 — $120,000/year\n
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