toptal - Talent Network: Tech Lead
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Requirements
• 10+ years designing and shipping distributed systems at scale • Outstanding written and verbal communication skills. Great executive presence, and ability to partner and support with executives. • Fluency with a major cloud (e.g., GCP or AWS) plus a modern tech stack (Ruby/Rails, Python, Rust, Golang, Java etc.) • Deep track record architecting large-scale, multi-tenant applications and platforms • Experience hiring, mentoring, and growing a small team of back-end, full-stack, and front-end engineers. • Hands-on experience building zero-to-one products and navigating rapid iteration under ambiguity. • Comfort pitching architecture to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders—and rolling up sleeves to write production code. • A collaborative, founder-level mindset: bias to action, ownership over outcomes, and passion for elegant, pragmatic solutions. • You must be a world-class individual contributor to thrive at Toptal. You will not be here just to tell other people what to do
Responsibilities
• Set the end-to-end architecture: data storage, task orchestration, model-in-the-loop pipelines, multi-tenant, and observability. • Drive every “build vs. buy” decision and seed the initial tech stack (cloud, languages, frameworks, infra-as-code). • Prototype core services quickly • Participate in the recruiting process, mentor, and unblock a small team of back-end, full-stack, and front-end engineers as the company scales. • Partner with the Product Lead to translate fuzzy customer needs into clear, actionable technical requirements. • Establish engineering culture, coding standards, and CI/CD from day one. • Represent the technology narrative with stakeholders, design partners, and early enterprise customers. • In the first week, expect to: • Start participating in company-wide training sessions. • Get familiar with our product vision • Set up your local environment and get familiar with our tech stack. • In the first month, expect to: • Understand what has been built so far • Identify bottlenecks and areas for improvement • Contribute to architectural design and decision-making • In the first three months, expect to: • Lead technical initiatives in our team • Work on long-term roadmap and scalability • Suggest and implement improvements to Toptal’s processes and codebase, while exercising discretion and independent judgment. • In the first six months, expect to: • Stay up to date with technology advancements and ensure our technology stack is optimized for strategic growth and the competitive advantage of Toptal. • Balance the technical roadmap to account for both existing technical debt and long-term strategy for sustainable growth. • Mentor Toptal’s new team members. • In the first year, expect to: • Work on scaling the data-labeling engine • Build a roadmap to achieve compliance
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