[Hiring] Talent Network: Senior Back-end Engineer (Creator) @Toptal

Role Description

Our product reads data from social platforms — YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, and others — to give creators a clear view of their business. The integrations we build with these platforms are the data foundation of everything else we do. Every other engineer reads the data this role makes available.

You will own these integrations end-to-end:

• Design the framework that lets us add a new platform connector in days rather than weeks.
• Operate the integrations in production: rotating tokens, handling rate limits, recovering from outages, building graceful failure paths.
• Lead the integration of new platforms as we grow — Stripe, email service providers, podcast hosts, e-commerce platforms.

This is a high-impact, high-autonomy role. Platform API risk is the single biggest technical risk to our business, and you will be the person we trust to manage it.

This is a remote position. We do not offer visa sponsorship or assistance. Resumes and communication must be submitted in English.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain production integrations with the YouTube Data API, the Meta Graph API (Instagram and Facebook), and the TikTok Display API.
• Design a Connector framework — a clean internal interface that abstracts the differences between platforms.
• Build OAuth flows, scheduled data ingestion, and a queue-based architecture for reliable background work.
• Operate connectors in production: monitor health, freshness, and error rates; rotate credentials; respond to platform changelog updates; maintain a runbook per platform.
• Build graceful degradation paths to ensure our product communicates effectively with users when a platform API is failing.
• Partner with the product manager to define user experience when each platform misbehaves.

Qualifications

• Four or more years of backend engineering experience, with strong production work in Node.js or TypeScript, and PostgreSQL.
• Experience shipping and maintaining at least one production integration with the YouTube Data API, Meta Graph API, or TikTok API.
• Strong understanding of OAuth 2.0, token rotation, rate limiting, retry strategies, exponential backoff, and queue-based architectures.
• Experience using a background job system in production — Inngest, Trigger.dev, BullMQ, Sidekiq, Temporal, or similar.
• Operational mindset with experience on call for production systems.
• Ability to write clean, maintainable code and own a system end-to-end including its monitoring and incident response.

Bonus Points

• Experience with other creator-economy tools or third-party APIs (Stripe, Twilio, Salesforce, etc.).
• Familiarity with monitoring and alerting tools (Sentry, Datadog, Grafana, etc.).
• Comfort with infrastructure work — Postgres tuning, Supabase or Neon, AWS or Cloudflare.

Tech Stack

• TypeScript
• Next.js
• PostgreSQL (Supabase or Neon)
• Prisma or Drizzle
• Inngest or Trigger.dev for background jobs
• Clerk for authentication
• Sentry and PostHog for observability.

What Success Looks Like

In your first 90 days:

• You have delivered the first three platform connectors in production, established the Connector framework, and set up monitoring and runbooks.

By month six:

• You have added one to two more platform integrations, and the connector layer is operating with high reliability — measured by data freshness, error rates, and time-to-recovery on outages.