Engineering Manager

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About the role

  • Engineering Manager leading teams building advanced data and AI tools at Toptal, a global talent network. Driving technical excellence, AI-assisted development, and major product delivery.

Responsibilities

  • 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

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

SeniorLead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

AWSCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformGraphQLJavaScriptKafkaNext.jsPostgresReactRedisTypeScript

Location requirements

RemoteWorldwide

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