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Toptal

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2010

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

🎯 Recruiter

💰 Seed Round on 2012-06

Consulting • Marketing • Recruitment

Toptal is an exclusive network of the top freelance software developers, designers, marketing experts, finance experts, product managers, and project managers in the world. The company provides businesses with access to highly skilled professionals to tackle their most important projects. Toptal's offerings allow companies to quickly and flexibly hire top talent for various roles, including developers, designers, and finance experts, among others. These professionals are rigorously tested and vetted to ensure high quality and an excellent trial-to-hire success rate of 98%. With a global presence and a focus on embracing advanced skills such as blockchain and AI, Toptal is leading the future of on-demand work. Companies rely on Toptal for high-skilled freelance talent across various sectors, ensuring they can build amazing teams rapidly and efficiently as per their project needs.

📋 Description

• Lead a high-velocity Engineering team developing advanced data and AI tools • Work with Engineers, Designers, Product Managers, Architects, and the Executive team to deliver high-quality products • Set goals for the team and individual team members • Understand and communicate the team’s mission and objectives • Motivate the team and create a productive, enjoyable work environment • Communicate proactively with stakeholders and the Product Manager’s team • Establish feedback loops and provide immediate feedback • Participate in performance reviews • Facilitate technical discussions and frequent code reviews to maintain code quality • Resolve technical and interpersonal discussions when necessary • Ensure the team’s overall output quality • Mentor team members and support personal and career growth • Escalate systemic challenges and blockers to the manager • Lead the team’s recruiting and hiring process • Track progress, assess risks, coordinate delivery, and communicate mitigation plans • Apply system-analysis techniques and consult users to determine functional specifications • Complete onboarding and push code to production during the first month • Lead the team from planning through delivery • Conduct regular 1:1 meetings with teammates • Build understanding of the team’s mission, constraints, and capabilities • Develop cross-functional relationships and contribute engineering-wide improvements • Lead delivery of at least one major product-wide feature within the first year • Define yearly goals and objectives for the team

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of experience working with back-end, front-end technologies, and databases • Solid grasp of object-oriented programming, PostgreSQL/Supabase databases, clean code, development, and automated testing methodologies • 2+ years of previous experience leading an Engineering team • Track record of delivering successful products as an engineer and engineering manager • Experience managing small teams with high autonomy and low process overhead • Ability to balance implementation time against performance, failure tolerance, security, and long-term maintenance • Ability to evaluate technical architecture trade-offs in real time during design discussions • Strong code review skills and ability to explain code-quality decisions • Active, demonstrated experience as an AI-first engineer • Experience using AI development tools such as Copilot, Claude Code, and Cursor • Genuine curiosity about LLMs and AI-assisted engineering • Strong communication skills, including clear writing, direct feedback, and effective facilitation • World-class individual contributor capabilities • Experience with data labeling, video/audio media processing, or PDF manipulation is a plus • Familiarity with LangGraph or LangChain is a plus • Familiarity with Redis, Kafka, and caching and queueing technologies is a plus • Familiarity with NextJS, React, JavaScript, TypeScript, and GraphQL is a plus • Experience designing and building AI Agents, MCP servers, and data classification components for training LLMs is a plus • Experience with cloud-native infrastructure on GCP or AWS is a plus • No visa sponsorship or assistance is offered • Resumes and communication must be submitted in English

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote workforce • Support structure encouraging innovation, social interaction, and fun • Opportunity to work on a newly launched business unit and shape a new AI platform • Direct impact on company revenue • Onboarding and access to documentation and repositories • Career growth collaboration and mentoring