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    Senior Backend Engineer - Backend Platform (USA Only, 100% Remote)

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    USA - Remote
    Remote
    Senior
    Full Time
    💰$ 140,000 - $ 210,000
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    Requirements

    • •Seasoned Python engineer
    • •Experience shipping meaningful LLM-backed or agentic AI work to real users
    • •Use coding agents in daily workflow with a point of view on their effectiveness
    • •Fluent in observability and production practices including telemetry, metrics, tracing, alerting
    • •Opinionated about API design with experience shipping internet-facing APIs
    • •Experience debugging incidents with real customer impact
    • •Builder mindset prioritizing adoption over elegance
    • •Energized by working with internal customers directly

    What You'll Do

    • •Expand DevDawg and Spice cloud development environments and automated review tooling
    • •Build paved roads for API layer including REST blueprints, GraphQL schema, OpenAPI, auth and permission plumbing
    • •Modernize backend framework layer including web and async compute frameworks and migration paths
    • •Own production observability, metrics, alerting, and readiness bar
    • •Ship shared backend services and primitives like eventing patterns, database-change safety, delegated access, internal admin framework
    • •Set guardrails for coding agents including static analysis, linting, hooks, test harnesses
    • •Partner across the organization with infrastructure teams

    Nice to Have

    • •Experience with Go, Rust, or TypeScript
    • •Experience with Flask, FastAPI, GraphQL, TaskTiger, Kafka, Redis, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions

    Benefits

    • •Competitive pay plus organization-wide goal-based bonus
    • •~5 weeks PTO to start plus 1-week Winter Holiday Break and paid US holidays
    • •Earn 2 extra PTO days per year with Close
    • •80% work option (4-day week at 80% pay)
    • •Paid parental leave for primary and secondary caregivers
    • •1-month paid sabbatical every 5 years
    • •Healthcare plans covering 99% of premium plus Dental, Vision, HSA, FSA, Long-Term Disability
    • •401k with up to 6% match vested immediately

    About Close

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    San Francisco, CA
    100-250
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