
Lead Software Engineer
The World's Top Talent, On Demand®
Competitive Salary
United Kingdom (Onsite)
Engineering
Senior
Last updated 2025-10-07T06:04:08.996Z

About the role
Overview
As a Lead Software Engineer, you will design and operate systems that move billions in payments globally, ensuring high performance and compliance while leading initiatives from design to rollout.
Skills

Lead Software Engineer
The World's Top Talent, On Demand®
Last updated 2025-10-07T06:04:08.996Z
Overview
As a Lead Software Engineer, you will design and operate systems that move billions in payments globally, ensuring high performance and compliance while leading initiatives from design to rollout.
Salary
Competitive Salary
Location
United Kingdom
OnsiteDepartment
Engineering
Level
Senior
Skills
Overview
As a Lead Software Engineer, you will design and operate systems that move billions in payments globally, ensuring high performance and compliance while leading initiatives from design to rollout.
Skills
Candidate requirements
These are the minimum requirements a candidate must meet to be considered for this role.
- 6+ years building transaction-heavy systems in production, scaling to millions of transactions.
- Deep backend expertise in Node.js (or Java/Go), REST/GraphQL microservices at scale.
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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