Senior Backend Engineer – Backend Platform

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Develop backend platform functionalities utilized by four product teams.

• Enhance DevDawg cloud development environments for the entire application stack.

• Improve Spice automated code review and root-cause analysis tools, including safely approving additional pull requests.

• Create paved paths for the API layer, which encompasses REST blueprints, GraphQL schemas, OpenAPI, real-time capabilities, authentication, and permissions.

• Modernize backend and asynchronous computing frameworks, including pathways for migrating from Flask to FastAPI.

• Establish standards for production observability, metrics, alerting, and readiness.

• Develop shared backend services and foundational elements for event handling, event logs, database change safety, migrations, delegated access, auditability, internal administration, and support APIs.

• Set coding agent guardrails through static analysis, linting, hooks, and testing harnesses.

• Collaborate with the Infrastructure team, which manages AWS, Kubernetes, and data stores, while overseeing the application layer.

• Work closely with internal engineering users and may transition between teams as project needs evolve.

⛳️ Requirements

• Position available at Senior and Staff levels.

• Experienced Python engineer; Python is the primary backend programming language.

• Familiarity with Go, Rust, or TypeScript is advantageous.

• Experience delivering significant LLM-backed or agentic projects to real users.

• Utilizes coding agents in daily tasks and possesses a clear understanding of their advantages and limitations.

• Proficient in observability and production practices, including telemetry, metrics, tracing, alerting, and Sentry management.

• Skilled in designing and launching internet-facing APIs.

• Experienced in debugging production incidents and owning systems that impact customers.

• Familiar with being on-call for production systems.

• Builder-first mindset focused on swift adoption.

• Capable of working directly with internal engineering stakeholders.

• Must have legal authorization to work in the US; visa requirements must be clarified.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary along with an organization-wide performance-based bonus.

• Approximately 5 weeks of paid time off to begin with.

• One-week all-company Winter Holiday Break.

• Paid holidays in the US.

• Two additional PTO days for each year of service with Close.

• 80% Work Option: select between a standard 5-day work week or a 4-day work week at 80% pay.

• Paid parental leave for primary and secondary caregivers.

• One month of paid sabbatical every five years.

• Two medical plans with Close covering 99% of the premium for US residents.

• Coverage for dental and vision.

• Health Savings Account (HSA) and Flexible Spending Account (FSA).

• Company-paid Long-Term Disability insurance.

• 401(k) contribution matching up to 6%, with immediate vesting.

• Funding for top-tier developer tools.