Toptal

Engineering Team Lead - Fintech / Payments (Early Stage)

Toptal

The World's Top Talent, On Demand®

Competitive Salary

(Onsite)

Engineering

Senior

Last updated 2026-01-04T06:01:30.738Z

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About the role

Overview

As an Engineering Team Lead, you will be responsible for product engineering across backend and client applications, writing production code, making architectural decisions, and leading engineers as the team grows.

Skills

Typescript Node.js Postgres AWS Kubernetes

Candidate requirements

These are the minimum requirements a candidate must meet to be considered for this role.

  • 6+ years building distributed, transaction-heavy systems in production.
  • Strong backend engineering depth (Typescript/Node.js), comfortable coding daily.

About Toptal

With over $4 billion in global payments, $200 million in annual revenue, 70k contracts signed — Toptal is the world’s largest fully remote workforce.

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