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    Senior Software Engineer - Frontend/React

    Close
    Remote
    1 month ago
    10
    Employment Type

    Full Time

    Salary

    $130,000/yr

    Experience Level

    Mid

    Job Description

    You would be joining one of our six cross-functional product development teams. These include the CRM, Admin & Onboarding, Conversations, Messaging & Scheduling, Automations & Integrations and Data Insights teams. You will be working with other frontend engineers as well as backend engineers, product managers, designers and other teams here at Close.

    Come help us with projects like...

    Conceiving, designing, building, and launching new user-facing features

    Implementing new AI features to turbocharge our customers’ daily tasks

    Working with Twilio's API, WebSockets, and WebRTC to improve our calling and SMS features

    Building user-facing analytics features that provide actionable insights based on sales activity data

    Enhancing our web app with real-time updates powered by GraphQL Subscriptions

    Improving real-time collaboration user experience

    Leveraging the latest AI LLMs from providers like OpenAI, Groq and AssemblyAI

    Expanding our frontend GraphQL usage

    Extending our React component library

    About You We're looking for an experienced full-time Frontend Software Engineer to join our engineering team. Someone who has a solid understanding of web technologies and wants to help design, implement, and launch major 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 are able to manage your time well, communicate effectively and collaborate in a fully distributed team.

    Senior 1 & 2 level candidates should have 5+ years experience building modern frontend single page applications in JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, with at least 3 years of that experience using React.

    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.

    You should have significant experience designing, debugging, and optimizing frontend applications to make them fast and reliable. You have significant experience with REST APIs and thoroughly understand HTTP requests. You have experience participating in code reviews and providing overall code quality suggestions to help maintain the structure and quality of the codebase.

    You should have great product sense and be able to think through user experience issues before diving into the code, and you exhibit a love for great UI.

    You care about the craftsmanship of the code and systems you produce.

    You can speak and write in English

    You are located in the USA (ET, CT, MT, PT)

    Bonus points if you have...

    Experience implementing real-time (e.g. websockets, polling, etc.) web apps

    Experience working with GraphQL endpoints

    Utilized AI LLMs from providers like OpenAI, Groq and AssemblyAI in a production web app

    An eye for design and experience with Figma, Sketch, Abstract, Photoshop, or similar

    Led small project teams building and launching features

    Contributed open source code (core or plugins) for a popular frontend framework such as React, Vue, or Angular

    Built B2B SaaS products

    Experience with sales or sales tools

    Benefits Competitive compensation including an organization-wide goal-based bonus

    Paid Time Off: 5 Weeks PTO upon joining + Winter Holiday Break and Summer Holiday Break. Each year with the company, you’ll receive 2 additional PTO days

    80% Work Option: Work with your manager to choose between working 5 day weeks (standard full-time) or 4 day weeks @ 80% pay

    Paid Parental Leave for primary and secondary caregivers

    Sabbatical: After 5 years with the team, you’re eligible for a 1 month paid sabbatical

    Healthcare (US residents): Medical, Dental, Vision with HSA option (US residents), Dependent care FSA (US residents)

    401k (US residents): We match 6% contributions with immediate vesting

    Our Values Build a house you want to live in - Examine long-term thinking and action

    No BS - Practice transparency and honesty, especially when it’s hard

    Invest in each other - Build successful relationships with your coworkers and customers

    Discipline equals freedom - Keep your word to yourself and others

    Strive for greatness - Constantly challenge yourself and others

    Learn More Listen to our CEO and Founder, Steli Efti, tell the story of Close’s journey in the $0-30m Blueprint.

    Watch our culture video from our 2023 team retreat in Milan. Every year our entire team gathers in person to build connection, foster cross-functional collaboration, and have fun. In 2025, we’re headed to Paris, France.

    Explore our product. You can watch a ten-minute video demo on our home page.

    Our Hiring Process We ask a few role-specific questions as part of our application process. These questions are designed to help us learn more about you from the start so please answer each question thoughtfully. We see this as an opportunity to get to know you beyond your resume.

    While we are excited by all the opportunities that generative AI has unlocked, we request that you refrain from relying on AI tools when completing an application. Every application is read closely by humans and any obviously AI generated applications will be disregarded.

    Regardless of fit, you can expect to hear back from our team with an update on the status of your candidacy.

    If you progress to the interview process, you’ll receive a full outline of the role-specific interview process in your first touchpoint with us. We do our best to make the hiring process clear and human.