Tech Lead - Backend Engineering

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Job Type: Full-time
• Salary: Competitive compensation

Turing is seeking a seasoned backend engineer with a strong track record of leading teams to build and scale backend infrastructure in a product-oriented environment. This role requires a blend of technical leadership and hands-on development expertise, focusing on guiding teams through the design and implementation of modular APIs, scalable backend systems, and well-structured databases. The ideal candidate will actively contribute code, drive architectural decisions, and uphold engineering best practices. 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.

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 and leveraging that expertise to build real-world AI systems for Fortune 500 companies and government institutions. Turing has received numerous awards and its leadership team includes AI technologists from industry giants like Meta, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, and more.

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

Turing is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. We encourage individuals to apply even if their experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification.