Tech Lead - Backend Engineering
About Turing
Based in Palo Alto, California, Turing is one of the world's fastest-growing AI companies accelerating the advancement and deployment of powerful AI systems. Turing helps customers in two ways: working with the world’s leading AI labs to advance frontier model capabilities in thinking, reasoning, coding, agentic behavior, multimodality, multilingualism, STEM and frontier knowledge; and leveraging that expertise to build real-world AI systems that solve mission-critical priorities for Fortune 500 companies and government institutions. Turing has received numerous awards, including Forbes's "One of America's Best Startup Employers," #1 on The Information's annual list of "Most Promising B2B Companies," and Fast Company's annual list of the "World's Most Innovative Companies." Turing's leadership team includes AI technologists from industry giants Meta, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Twitter, McKinsey, Bain, Stanford, Caltech, and MIT. For more information on Turing, visit www.turing.com. For information on upcoming Turing AGI Icons events, visit go.turing.com/agi-icons.
Overview
The ideal candidate is a seasoned backend engineer with a strong track record of leading teams to build and scale backend infrastructure in a product-oriented environment. They combine technical leadership with hands-on development expertise, guiding teams through the design and implementation of modular APIs, scalable backend systems, and well-structured databases. This is not a management-only role. The person in this position is expected to actively contribute code, drive architectural decisions, and uphold engineering best practices across the team. Experience building real-world service integrations (such as Gmail, Jira, etc.) in a production context is essential.
What You will Work On
- Leading the design and development of real-world services as modular, production-ready APIs
- Providing technical direction and mentorship while remaining hands-on with the codebase
- Maintaining excellent, developer-friendly documentation across services
- Enforcing a Test Driven Development approach with high-quality test coverage
- Ensuring delivery at high velocity while maintaining system reliability and clarity
- Designing and iterating on scalable database schemas for service integrations
Requirements
- 8+ years of backend engineering experience, with 2+ years in a technical leadership role
- Deep expertise in production-grade Python and backend architecture
- Proven ability to guide teams in building and scaling systems quickly and cleanly
- Strong fundamentals in database schema design and data modeling
- Hands-on experience with Test Driven Development (TDD)
- [Bonus] Familiarity with LLM function calling protocols and integration paradigms
Advantages of joining Turing:
- Amazing work culture (Super collaborative & supportive work environment; 5 days a week)
- Awesome colleagues (Surround yourself with top talent from Meta, Google, LinkedIn etc. as well as people with deep startup experience)
- Competitive compensation
- Flexible working hours
- Full-time remote opportunity
Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. Turing is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, protected veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristics. At Turing we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace and celebrate authenticity, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
For applicants from the European Union, please review Turing's GDPR notice here.
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