Team: Backend Platform · Source: jobright · Posted by joined-scrapper
About the role
Close seeks a Senior Backend Engineer to join its Backend Platform team, building shared foundations and AI-powered developer tools that product engineers rely on. The role centers on Python, observability, API design, and practical AI-in-production experience, with internal engineers as direct users.
What you’ll do
Build shared backend foundations for product engineering teams
Develop AI-powered developer tools like automated code review
Create and maintain development environments and backend services
Define API patterns and production-ready observability practices
Own telemetry, metrics, tracing, alerting, and Sentry
Support internal customers directly via Slack and debug incidents
What you’ll need
Seasoned Python engineer — Python is the backbone
Shipped meaningful LLM-backed or agentic work to real users
Uses coding agents in your daily workflow
Fluent in observability and production practice
Opinionated about API design with internet-facing API experience
Battle-tested in debugging incidents and owning critical systems
Original job description
Close is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer for its Backend Platform team. The role builds shared backend foundations and AI-powered developer tools, including development environments, automated code review, API patterns, observability, and backend services used by product engineering teams.A seasoned Python engineer. Python is our backbone and it matters…