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Close Senior Software Engineer - Backend (100% Remote)

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Headquarters: Remote
URL: https://close.com/

About You

We'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.

You should have senior level experience (~5 years) building modern back-end systems, with at least 3 years of that experience using Python.

You 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.

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 are able to manage your time well, communicate effectively and collaborate in a fully distributed team.

You are located in an American or European time zone.

Bonus points if you have...

Contributed open source code related to our tech stack
Led small project teams building and launching features
Built B2B SaaS products
Experience with sales or sales tools

Come help us with projects like...

Conceiving, designing, building, and launching new user-facing features
Improving the performance and scalability our API. Help expand our GraphQL implementation.
Improving how we sync millions of sales emails 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 Elasticsearch-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 work with us?

100% Remote (we believe in trust and autonomy)
2 x Annual Team Retreats ✈️ (Lisbon Retreat Video)
Competitive salary
Medical, Dental with HSA option - 99% premiums paid (US residents)
5 Weeks PTO + 6 Government Holidays + Dec 24 - Jan 1 Company Holiday
Parental Leave (10 wks primary caregiver / 4 wks secondary caregiver)
401k matching at 4% (US residents)
Paid 1 month Sabbatical after 5 years
Our story and team 🚀
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At 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).

We 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.

This 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.

Interested in Close but don't think this role is the best fit for you? View our other positions.

To apply: https://jobs.lever.co/close.io/592193bf-8a9c-43cf-86a1-faeb75107939

Posted Close Senior Software Engineer - Backend (100% Remote) on August 15, 2019 via