Senior Full Stack Engineer (Core AI)

Job Summary

Responsibilities:

• Design, build and maintain outstanding, reusable, and reliable Node React code.
• Experiment with new AI tooling and contribute to developing best practices.
• Learn new concepts and technologies.
• Review and provide feedback on your colleagues’ work, mentor others, and grow as part of a collaborative team.
• Contribute to continuous improvement by refining team processes, sharing ideas, and communicating progress effectively.

In the first week, expect to:

• Get introduced to Toptal’s practices and processes.
• Start participating in company-wide training sessions.
• Set up your local environment and get familiar with our tech stack.
• Create your first pull request.

In the first month, expect to:

• Familiarize yourself with the team’s business domain.
• Contribute to our product development.
• Develop a deeper understanding of our technology, processes and product pipeline.
• Attend regular meetings, like dailies, technical calls retrospectives.

In the first six months, expect to:

• Lead technical initiatives in our team.
• Drive improvements to the codebase and processes.

In the first year, expect to:

• Have a detailed understanding of Toptal’s technical stack, collaboration rituals, processes and performance.
• Mentor Toptal’s new team members.

Qualifications and Job Requirements:

• 3+ years of experience working with Next.js.
• Demonstrable understanding of backend and development principles, databases, clean code and best testing practices.
• Consider multiple quality-dimensions like user impact, failure tolerance, code maintenance, implementation time, availability, security breaches and performance.
• Experience with modern Javascript, preferably Typescript and React.
• Experience with Supabase, Vercel and Python is a plus.
• Be genuinely interested in technology and love to try new things.
• Outstanding written and communication skills
• Tackle complex problems but also consider multiple solutions, weigh them, and decide on the best course of action.
• Thrive on providing and receiving transparent but always constructive feedback.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, rapidly growing company and handle a wide variety of challenges, deadlines, and a diverse array of contacts.
• 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.