Senior Software Engineer, Close
Backend, Python
$140-210k
More information about location
CRM for small scaling businesses
Job no longer available
CRM for small scaling businesses
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
$140-210k
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To help startups and SMBs grow. Since 2013, we’ve been building a CRM that focuses on better communication, without the hassle of manual data entry or complex UI.
Role
Who you are
- We’re looking for high achieving, full-time Software Engineers to join our engineering team
- Someone who has a good understanding in web technologies and wants to help design, implement, launch, and scale major systems and user-facing features
- You're comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with a small and talented team where you're supported in your efforts to grow professionally
- You're able to manage your time well, communicate effectively, and collaborate in a fully distributed team
- 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)
- Contributed open source code related to our tech stack
- Implemented features that leveraged AI to deliver unimaginable new product capabilities
Desirable
- 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
What the job involves
- 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
- 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
Our take
Close is a customer relationship management (CRM) software company that has helped a diverse range of companies scale their teams and acquire more customers. Founded in 2013 by serial entrepreneur Steli Efti, the company was initially propelled by the Y Combinator scheme.
Close was originally a spinoff of a parent company named Elastic Sales. The software that became the basis for Close was built to run sales campaigns for Elastic’s customers. Understanding the market appeal and potential of Close as a standalone product, Elastic was eventually shut down in favor of a refocus on the CRM software.
Close is a bootstrapped company that has expanded rapidly. They have attracted some particularly fast scaling sales teams, including customer.io, toggl, and Hipcamp. Going forward they are focusing on product development and marketing efforts, aiming to become the leader in the CRM space for sales teams.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
46% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Aug 2013
$0.3m
SEED
Mar 2011
$0.2m
SEED
Total funding: $0.4m
Company benefits
- Paid time off and family leave
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Company goal-based bonus
- 5 weeks PTO + Winter Holiday Break
- Flexible working hours
- 100% remote company (we believe in trust and autonomy)
- Choose between working 5 days/wk (standard full-time) or 4 days/wk @ 80% pay
- Quarterly virtual summits
- 1 month paid sabbatical every 5 years
- 401k with 6% match
- Dependent care FSA (US residents)
Leadership
Steli Efti
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously Owner at Whittibar Workshops and Teletrance, CEO of Supercool School and Senior Venture Partner at Pioneer Fund.
Anthony Nemitz
(Co-Founder & COO)Previously worked in Product and Engineering at eBay.
Thomas Steinacher
(Co-Founder & CTO)Also co-founder of Elastic. Previously co-founded SwipeGood.
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