Location
USA - Remote
Employment Type
Full time
Location Type
Remote
Department
Engineering
Compensation
USA Based
$140K – $210K
Overview

ABOUT US

Close is a bootstrapped, profitable, 100% remote, ~100 person team of thoughtful individuals who prioritize taking ownership and making a meaningful impact. We’re eager to make a product our customers fall in love with over and over again.
We small scaling businesses. Since 2013, we’ve been building a CRM that focuses on better communication, without the hassle of manual data entry or a complex UI. We are out to supercharge sales productivity with the most modern, thoughtfully designed, all-in-one, communication-focused CRM.
Our backend tech stack 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. We have CI/CD pipelines that build Docker images, run automated tests and deploy to Kubernetes clusters. We also use these images in our local development environment allowing coding locally against all of our services. We have a well-documented public API that is consumed by our front-end JavaScript app as well as numerous integrations. Our infrastructure is heavily automated using Terraform, Ansible and other AWS tools.
Our product development process is inspired by Shape Up. We love open sourcing our code and ideas on our GitHub and on The Making of Close, our behind-the-scenes Product & Engineering blog. Check out our open source projects like SocketShark, TaskTiger, LimitLion and ciso8601.

REQUIREMENTS…

• Senior 1 & 2 level candidates should have 5+ years of experience building modern back-end systems.
• Staff level candidates should have 8+ years of experience.
• Mid-level candidates should have ~3 years of similar experience and be eager to level up with the right opportunity.
• Professional Python experience is preferred but a working knowledge of Python with additional experience in other languages is acceptable if you have a desire to work with Python.
• You have built web APIs that were Internet facing or supported other high volume loads.
• 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.
• You are able to speak and write in English
• You are located in the USA (ET, CT, MT, PT)

You will be joining one of our six cross-functional teams. These are the CRM, Admin & Onboarding, Conversations, Messaging & Scheduling, Automations & Integrations and Data Insights teams. You will be regularly collaborating with other backend & frontend engineers, product managers, designers, and other teams here at Close.