Senior Backend Engineer – Backend Platform

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $140k - $210k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2013

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

☁️ SaaS

Consulting • Marketing • SaaS

Close is a customer relationship management (CRM) software platform designed for small businesses, focusing on ease of use, automation, and integration with sales processes. It offers tools for call management, emailing, text messaging, and task scheduling all within a single platform. The platform eliminates the need for multiple tools by incorporating all necessary sales tools seamlessly. Close aims to empower small businesses to grow by being user-friendly, clutter-free, and equipped with automated sales functionalities, enhancing sales efficiency and effectiveness.

📋 Description

• Build backend platform capabilities used by four product teams • Expand DevDawg cloud development environments for the full application stack • Expand Spice automated code review and root-cause tooling, including safely approving more pull requests • Build paved roads for the API layer, including REST blueprints, GraphQL schema, OpenAPI, realtime, authentication, and permissions • Modernize backend and asynchronous compute frameworks, including Flask-to-FastAPI migration paths • Establish production observability, metrics, alerting, and readiness standards • Build shared backend services and primitives for eventing, event logs, database-change safety, migrations, delegated access, auditability, internal administration, and support APIs • Set guardrails for coding agents through static analysis, linting, hooks, and test harnesses • Partner with Infrastructure, which owns AWS, Kubernetes, and datastores, while owning the application layer • Collaborate directly with internal engineering users and potentially move between teams as work shifts

🎯 Requirements

• Role open at Senior and Staff levels • Seasoned Python engineer; Python is the primary backend language • Go, Rust, or TypeScript experience is welcome • Shipped meaningful LLM-backed or agentic work to real users • Uses coding agents in day-to-day workflow and has a clear point of view on their strengths and limitations • Fluent in observability and production practice, including telemetry, metrics, tracing, alerting, and Sentry ownership • Experience designing and shipping internet-facing APIs • Production incident debugging and ownership of systems with customer impact • Experience carrying a pager for production systems • Builder-first approach focused on rapid adoption • Ability to work directly with internal engineering customers • Must be legally able to work in the US; visa requirements must be explained

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive pay plus an organization-wide goal-based bonus • ~5 weeks of PTO to start • 1-week all-company Winter Holiday Break • Paid US holidays • 2 extra PTO days for every year with Close • 80% Work Option: choose a standard 5-day week or a 4-day week at 80% pay • Paid parental leave for primary and secondary caregivers • 1-month paid sabbatical every 5 years • Two medical plans with Close covering 99% of the premium for US residents • Dental and Vision coverage • HSA and FSA • Company-paid Long-Term Disability • 401(k) contribution match up to 6%, vested immediately • Funding for best-in-class developer tools