Base Salary
$140k - $210k/yr
Responsibilities
- Expand DevDawg cloud development environments and Spice automated review and root-cause tooling.
- Build shared API-layer patterns covering REST blueprints, GraphQL schemas, OpenAPI, realtime functionality, authentication, and permissions.
- Modernize the backend framework layer, including web and asynchronous compute frameworks, performance improvements, and Flask-to-FastAPI migration paths.
- Own observability, metrics, alerting, and production-readiness standards across backend systems.
- Develop shared backend services and primitives for eventing, event logs, database-change safety, migrations, delegated access, auditability, internal administration, and support APIs.
- Set static-analysis, linting, hooks, and test-harness guardrails for coding agents.
- Partner with infrastructure teams while owning the application layer above AWS, Kubernetes, and datastores.
- Work directly with internal engineering customers and contribute across teams as organizational priorities shift.
Requirements
- Seasoned Python engineering experience with strong architectural judgment.
- Meaningful production experience shipping LLM-backed or agentic work to real users.
- Hands-on use of coding agents and a well-developed perspective on their strengths and limitations.
- Experience with observability, telemetry, metrics, tracing, alerting, Sentry, and production operations.
- Experience designing and shipping internet-facing APIs.
- Experience debugging production incidents, owning relied-upon systems, and responding to customer-impacting failures.
- A builder-oriented approach focused on adoption and practical delivery.
- Experience with or willingness to work across Go, Rust, or TypeScript is welcome.
Benefits
- 100% remote role for candidates in the USA.
- Approximately five weeks of PTO initially, plus a one-week company winter holiday break and paid US holidays.
- Choice of a standard five-day workweek or a four-day week at 80% pay, coordinated with the manager.
- Paid parental leave for primary and secondary caregivers.
- One month of paid sabbatical every five years.
- For US residents, Close covers 99% of medical premiums and provides dental, vision, HSA, FSA, and company-paid long-term disability coverage.
- For US residents, 401(k) contributions are matched up to 6% with immediate vesting.
- Competitive pay, organization-wide goal-based bonus, and annual company gatherings.
Tech Stack
About Close
Close is the sales CRM built for founders, startups, and small businesses that want to grow faster. We help teams find, communicate with, and convert more customers without the complexity of traditional CRM software. Unlike CRMs that simply store customer data, Close brings calling, email, SMS, automation, and AI together in a single platform designed to help sales teams take action. Trusted by more than 11,500 businesses worldwide, Close powers billions of sales interactions every year. Teams use Close to manage leads, streamline follow-up, improve productivity, and drive predictable revenue growth. Our newest product, Chloe, extends that mission even further. Built directly into Close, Chloe is an AI sales teammate that helps businesses respond faster, follow up more consistently, and engage more leads without adding headcount. Whether contacting a new inbound lead in seconds or re-engaging opportunities that have gone cold, Chloe helps small teams operate like much larger sales organizations. From founder-led sales to growing revenue teams, Close gives businesses everything they need to manage customer relationships, communicate with prospects, and drive revenue from a single platform. Learn more at Close.com.