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 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 (lower 48 timezones)

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 extra 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

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.

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