Toptal
Tech / AI / Software
SeniorBack-endEngineer(Creator)
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“Senior Back-end Engineer (Creator) at Toptal. Skills: backend engineering, API integrations, production operation, monitoring, incident response. 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”
What You'll Achieve.
deliver the first three platform connectors in production; established the Connector framework; set up monitoring and runbooks; added one to two more platform integrations; connector layer is operating with high reliability — measured by data freshness, error rates, and time-to-recovery on outages
Industry & Context.
recover from outages; building graceful failure paths; recover from outages; building graceful failure paths
do not offer visa sponsorship or assistance, on call for production systems
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Four or more years of backend engineering experience, production work in Node. js or TypeScript, PostgreSQL, shipped and maintained at least one production integration with the YouTube Data API, Meta Graph API, or TikTok API, Experience with at least one of these specific social platforms is a must-have for this role, understanding of OAuth 2. 0, token rotation, rate limiting, retry strategies, exponential backoff, and queue-based architectures, used a background job system in production — Inngest, Trigger. dev, BullMQ, Sidekiq, Temporal, or similar, operational mindset, been on call for production systems, write clean, maintainable code, comfortable owning a system end-to-end including its monitoring and incident response
Nice to Have
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
What You'll Do.
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
scheduled data ingestion
and a queue-based architecture for reliable background work
Operate connectors in production: monitor health
and error rotate respond to platform changelog maintain a runbook per platform
Build graceful degradation paths
Partner with the product manager to define what users see when each platform misbehaves
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
rest of the team can read normalized data without thinking about which platform it came from; Partner with the product manager
Communication Scope
Resumes and communication must be submitted in English
Full Job Description
## Description About Toptal Toptal is a global network of top talent in business, design, and technology that enables companies to scale their teams, on-demand. With $200+ million in annual revenue and team members based around the globe, Toptal is the world’s largest fully remote workforce. We take the best elements of virtual teams and combine them with a support structure that encourages innovation, social interaction, and fun. We see no borders, move at a fast pace, and are never afraid to break the mold. Job Summary 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. You will design the framework that lets us add a new platform connector in days rather than weeks. You will operate the integrations in production: rotating tokens, handling rate limits, recovering from outages, building graceful failure paths so a broken third-party API does not break our product. As we grow, you will lead the integration of new platforms — 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. Three to start; more to follow. Design a Connector framework — a clean internal interface that abstracts the differences between platforms, so the rest of the team can read normalized data without thinking about which platform it came from
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