Remote Senior Software Engineer - Backend/Python

Summary

Join Close, a 100% remote, profitable company, as a US-based Software Engineer. We offer a salary range of $140,000 to $210,000 for Senior I & II roles. You'll collaborate with a cross-functional team on projects involving designing, building, and launching new features, improving API performance and scalability, and working with various technologies like GraphQL, REST, WebSockets, and AI. We value a fast-paced environment, effective communication, and professional growth. We offer excellent benefits including 5 weeks PTO, paid parental leave, comprehensive health insurance, 401k matching, and a 1-month paid sabbatical every 5 years.

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
• Located in the USA (lower 48 timezones)

Responsibilities

• Conceive, design, build, and launch new user-facing features
• Implement new AI features to turbocharge our customers’ daily tasks
• Improve the performance and scalability of our GraphQL and REST API
• Improve how we sync millions of sales emails and calendar events each month
• Work with Twilio's API, WebSockets, and WebRTC to improve our calling features
• Build user-facing analytics features that provide actionable insights based on sales activity data
• Improve our Elasticsearch-backed powerful search features
• Improve our internal messaging infrastructure using streaming technologies like Kafka and Redis
• Build new and enhance existing integrations with other SaaS platforms like Google’s G Suite, Zapier, and web conferencing providers
• Enhance our web app with real-time updates powered by GraphQL Subscriptions
• Leverage the latest AI LLMs from providers like OpenAI, Groq and AssemblyAI
• Help manage our ever growing data processing needs…

Preferred Qualifications

• Contributed open source code related to our tech stack
• Led small project teams building and launching features
• Built B2B SaaS products
• Implemented features that leveraged AI to deliver unimaginable new product capabilities
• Worked with complex architectures that support multiple APIs (e.g. REST, GQL, WebSockets) as well as async task and event processing frameworks

Benefits

• 100% remote company
• 5 weeks PTO + Winter & Summer Holiday Breaks 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)
• 401k matching at 6% (US residents)
• Dependent care FSA (US residents)