Paired is a global staffing and recruiting agency that pairs remote work with top-tier talent. We help individuals from around the world connect with great companies that are looking for their specific skill set. Our mission is to provide great jobs to talented people, no matter where they are located.
Our client is a super-intelligent finance platform, a real-time data transformer that turns messy streams (bank feeds, invoices, emails, API events) into perfectly structured records and investor-grade clarity.
Role Overview:
As a Lead Engineer, you would be the principal engineer of the project, acting as the technical governor, reviewing designs and code milestones hit on time, then when the project release you will act as the owner of the codebase, buiIding new features, raise performance, and hiring the in-house team that follows you.
Key Responsibilities:
- Run weekly sprint reviews with Toptal, clear blockers fast, and keep everyone on schedule.
- Ship clean features TypeScript/Node, Nextjs, and/or Python; refactor for speed and reliability.
- Plug In and fine-tune GPT-40 (and future models) Build retrieval pipelines so every answer cites real data.
- Enforce least-privileged IAM, encryption everywhere, and robust audit logging - no shortcuts.
- Write job specs, hire within our time zone band, mentor engineers, and create healthy remote habits.
- Monitor logs, debug incidents, run blameless post-mortems, and keep uptime high.
- 7+ years building web software and 2+ years leading or mentoring engineers ideally in fast-moving startups.
- Strong TypeScript/JavaScript (Node.js, Next.js) or Python -Comfortable in other stacks.
- Familiar with ML/AL libraries (Langchain, Hugging Face Transformers, etc.) and excited to put AI in production.
- Proven project-management chops—scope, plan, deliver.
- Security-first mindset and habit of writing clean, testable code.
- Availability to work with a 4—6 h overlap with New York time (UTC-8, UTC-3)
- Remote Working for US Company
- Exposure to new technology & trends
- Competitive USD Salary
