Talent Network: Tech Lead

4 days, 5 hours ago
Full-time
Lead
Software Development
Toptal

Toptal

Toptal is a curated talent marketplace connecting freelance software developers, designers, finance experts, product managers, and project managers with businesses globally. With a focus on top 3% talent in software engineering, design, and finance, To...

Construction & Engineering
5K-10K
Founded 2010
$4M raised

Description

  • Set the end-to-end architecture for data storage, task orchestration, model-in-the-loop pipelines, multi-tenancy, and observability.
  • Drive build-versus-buy decisions and establish the initial technology stack, including cloud, languages, frameworks, and infrastructure-as-code.
  • Prototype core services quickly and contribute hands-on production code as needed.
  • Collaborate with the Product Lead to translate customer needs into clear technical requirements.
  • Participate in recruiting, mentor engineers, and unblock a small growing team across back-end, full-stack, and front-end roles.
  • Establish engineering culture, coding standards, and CI/CD processes from day one.
  • Represent the technology vision with stakeholders, design partners, and early enterprise customers.
  • Lead technical initiatives and help shape the long-term roadmap, scalability, and technical strategy.
  • Identify bottlenecks, improve the codebase, and help balance technical debt with sustainable growth.
  • Support compliance planning and scaling efforts for the data-labeling engine over time.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience designing and shipping distributed systems at scale.
  • Experience with a major cloud platform such as GCP or AWS.
  • Experience with a modern tech stack such as Ruby/Rails, Python, Rust, Golang, or Java.
  • Strong experience architecting large-scale, multi-tenant applications and platforms.
  • Experience hiring, mentoring, and growing a small engineering team.
  • Hands-on experience building zero-to-one products and working through rapid iteration under ambiguity.
  • Ability to communicate clearly in writing and speaking.
  • Strong executive presence and ability to work effectively with executives and stakeholders.
  • Comfort pitching architecture to technical and non-technical audiences and writing production code.
  • A collaborative, founder-level mindset with strong ownership and bias to action.
  • Must be able to work remotely without visa sponsorship or assistance.
  • Resumes and communication must be submitted in English.

Benefits

  • Remote position with a fully remote global work environment.
  • Opportunity to work on a high-impact greenfield product with significant ownership.
  • Chance to help define the technical foundation of a new business line.
  • Work at a global company with a large distributed team and strong growth.
  • Opportunity to influence architecture, product direction, and engineering culture early.
  • Potential to contribute to a category-defining product that supports Toptal’s growth and innovation roadmap.

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