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Senior/Staff Software Engineer - Backend/Python - USA (100% Remote)
Close, United States
Experience
1 Year
Salary
Job Type
Job Shift
Job Category
Traveling
No
Career Level
Telecommute
Qualification
As mentioned in job details
Total Vacancies
1 Job
Posted on
Apr 10, 2023
Last Date
May 10, 2023
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Job Description
About UsAt 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 50+ high-performing, happy people that are dedicated to building a product our customers love.
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 open sourcing our code and ideas on our GitHub and onThe Making of Close, our behind-the-scenes Product amp; Engineering blog. Check out our projects like SocketShark, TaskTiger, LimitLion and ciso8601.
About YouWe’re looking for high achieving full-time Software Engineers to join our engineering team. Someone who has interest and a good understanding in web technologies and wants to help design, implement, launch, and scale major systems and user-facing features. This person will need to be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with a small and talented team where they're supported in their efforts to grow professionally. They'll need to be able to manage their 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. Not in the US? Check out this job post for our non-US BE position.
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 work with us?- Culture video
- 100% remote company(we believe in trust and autonomy)
- Choose between working 5 days/wk (standard full-time) or 4 days/wk @ 80% pay
- Annual team retreats
- Quarterly virtual summits
- 5 weeks PTO + Winter Holiday Break
- 2 additional PTO days every year with the company
- 1 month paid sabbatical every 5 years
- Paid parental leave
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