CLOSE: SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER - FRONTEND/REACT - USA ONLY (100% REMOTE)
About the Role
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.
Projects You'll Help With
- 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.
Requirements
- 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.
- Significant experience designing, debugging, and optimizing frontend applications to make them fast and reliable.
- Significant experience with REST APIs and thoroughly understand HTTP requests.
- Experience participating in code reviews and providing overall code quality suggestions to help maintain the structure and quality of the codebase.
- Great product sense and ability to think through user experience issues before diving into the code, and exhibit a love for great UI.
- Care about the craftsmanship of the code and systems you produce.
- Located in the USA (lower 48 timezones).
Bonus Points
- 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