Toptal is one of the most innovative and rapidly expanding tech start-ups from Silicon Valley. With backing from investors such as Andreessen Horowitz and Adam D’Angelo, our platform is the fastest growing labor marketplace in the history of the Internet—connecting thousands of elite engineers all over the world. In the last five years, Toptal has become the #1 choice for tech companies requiring top-tier engineering talent and for the top 3% of freelancers looking for their next challenge.
While we’re primarily focused on bringing quality and value to our clients, we’re also committed to creating a world-class environment for our employees. We are a completely distributed company with thousands of core and network team members located all over the world, and we take the best elements of virtual teams and combine them with a support structure that encourages innovation, social interaction, and fun. We take an all-hands-on-deck approach to our work, taking pride in being collaborative, creative, and flexible. If you aren’t looking for a job because you’re already killing it, we want you.
Available job positions
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Location: Anywhere
Position Description
We are looking for an AngularJS Developer to be responsible for the client side of mobile, desktop, and web applications. Your primary focus will be to implement complete user interfaces, with a focus on performance. Your main duties will include creating modules and components and coupling them together into a functional app. Artistic designs will be delivered to you, along with a few HTML templates, but you will also be expected to provide input on animation, CSS, and HTML decisions. You will work in teams with back-end developers, and will be communicating with an API using standard methods. A strong ability to thoroughly understand all of the components of a platform and infrastructure is required.
By joining the Toptal network, you’ll have the opportunity to work on many client projects ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500s with teams of highly skilled experts from around the world.
This is a remote position that can be done from anywhere.
Benefits:
- Freedom to choose your own schedule and choose from a variety of hourly, part-time, and full-time projects.
- The ability to work from wherever you want. Whether you prefer traveling and working from exotic beaches or spending time with your family and working from home, the choice is yours.
- Access to a thriving, collaborative community of talented peers.
- Invitations to frequent Toptal events going on around the world, including dinners, tech talks, conferences, and more.
- Extremely competitive compensation.
Responsibilities:
- Deliver complete front-end applications.
- Ensure high performance on mobile and desktop applications.
- Write tested, idiomatic, and documented JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
- Coordinate the workflow between the team’s graphic designer, developer working with HTML, and yourself.
- Coordinate with the team’s back-end developer on the process of building a RESTful API.
- Communicate with external web services.
- Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders.
- Take smart risks and champion new ideas.
Requirements:
- Proficiency with JavaScript and HTML5.
- Professional, precise communication skills.
- Extensive knowledge of AngularJS best practices and commonly used modules based on extensive work experience.
- Ability to create self-contained, reusable, and testable modules and components.
- Ability to ensure a clear dependency chain both for app logic as well as for the file system.
- Ability to provide SEO solutions for single-page apps.
- Extensive knowledge of CSS and JavaScript methods for providing performant visual effects and keeping the frame rate above 30fps at all times.
- Thorough understanding of the responsibilities of the platform, database, API, caching layer, proxies, and other web services used in the system.
- Ability to validate user actions on the client side and provide responsive feedback.
- Experience writing non-blocking code, and resorting to advanced techniques such as multi-threading when needed.
- Ability to create custom, general use modules and components that extend the elements and modules of core AngularJS.
- Experience with all levels of operations that are available to the front-end, from creating XHRs in vanilla JavaScript to using a custom wrapper around $resource.
- Experience with building infrastructure for serving front-end apps and assets.
- Ability to architect and automate the build process for production using task runners or scripts.
- Ability to document code inline using JSDoc or other common conventions.
- Experience writing extensive unit tests using automated TDD tasks.
- Ability to create end-to-end test suites for all components and running them with Protractor (or a well-reasoned alternative).
- Ability to create configuration, build, and test scripts for Continuous Integration environments.
- Be willing to help your teammates, share your knowledge with them, and learn from them.
- Be open to receiving feedback.
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Location: Anywhere
Position Description
We are looking for senior WordPress developers to be responsible for leading the development of complex Content Management Systems for a variety of industries and purposes, including building new themes and maintaining or extending existing ones. You will be architecting and implementing WordPress systems primarily using PHP, and will be relied upon as a source of technical leadership and architectural support. To excel in this position, you must have outstanding communication skills and should enjoy working in a highly dynamic, detail-oriented environment.
By joining the Toptal network, you’ll have the opportunity to work on many client projects, ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500s, with teams of highly skilled experts from around the world.
This is a remote position that can be done from anywhere.
Benefits:
- Freedom to choose your own schedule and choose from a variety of hourly, part-time, and full-time projects.
- The ability to work from wherever you want. Whether you prefer traveling and working from exotic beaches or spending time with your family and working from home, the choice is yours.
- Access to a thriving, collaborative community of talented peers.
- Invitations to frequent Toptal events going on around the world, including dinners, tech talks, conferences, and more.
- Extremely competitive compensation.
Responsibilities:
- Build responsive WordPress themes and CMS websites from designs all the way to complete working WordPress sites.
- Assess client requirements and convert needs into an elegant, intuitive WordPress architecture that meets best practices.
- Work with stakeholders who need to use the CMS to support their needs and adjust functionality as needed.
- Write reusable, testable, and efficient code.
- Create and update reusable code libraries to streamline WordPress development cycles.
- Create and execute on plans and timelines for project goals, production requirements, and support and maintenance needs.
- Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders.
- Take smart risks and champion new ideas.
Requirements:
- Extensive programming experience using PHP, MySQL, XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
- Extensive experience building responsive WordPress themes and CMS websites from PSD designs and customizing commercial WordPress themes (back-end and front-end).
- Experience working with WordPress at the PHP code level, including an understanding of the existing built-in WordPress functions, custom post types, coding standards for plugins/widgets, and theme integration best practices.
- Strong expertise in creating WordPress CMS architectures from scratch based on client specifications, including experience working directly with stakeholders to understand the business needs of the system.
- Knowledge of cross-platform and cross-browser issues.
- Outstanding problem solving abilities, with a knack for turning complex business needs into clear, intuitive functionality patterns and architectures.
- Experience with all parts of the software development life cycle, including requirements, design, implementation, and testing.
- Comfort with best practices for large-scale WordPress web content delivery.
- Be willing to help your teammates, share your knowledge with them, and learn from them.
- Be open to receiving feedback.
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Location: Anywhere
Position Description
We are looking for a React Developer passionate about creating polished web applications with beautiful, well-designed UIs using the React library. Your primary responsibility will be the implementation of visual elements and their behaviors with user interactions. You will work with both front-end and back-end web developers to build all client-side logic. You will also be bridging the gap between the visual elements and the server-side infrastructure, taking an active role on both sides, and defining how the application looks and functions.
By joining the Toptal network, you’ll have the opportunity to work on many client projects ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500s with teams of highly skilled experts from around the world.
This is a remote position that can be done from anywhere.
Benefits:
- Freedom to choose your own schedule and choose from a variety of hourly, part-time, and full-time projects.
- The ability to work from wherever you want. Whether you prefer traveling and working from exotic beaches or spending time with your family and working from home, the choice is yours.
- Access to a thriving, collaborative community of talented peers.
- Invitations to frequent Toptal events going on around the world, including dinners, tech talks, conferences, and more.
- Extremely competitive compensation.
Responsibilities:
- Develop new user-facing features using the React library.
- Build reusable, clean code with performance and simplicity in mind.
- Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs.
- Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability.
- Assure that all user input is validated before submitting to back-end services.
- Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders.
- Take smart risks and champion new ideas.
Requirements:
- Strong understanding of React library best practices and conventions. Comfort with JSX is preferred.
- Extensive experience with JavaScript, its quirks, and workarounds.
- Basic understanding of web markup, including HTML5 and CSS3.
- Experience with asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX.
- Proficient knowledge of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around such issues.
- Familiarity with front-end build tools, such as Grunt and Gulp.js.
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git, Mercurial, or SVN.
- Excellent understanding of browser rendering behavior and performance.
- Be willing to help your teammates, share your knowledge with them, and learn from them.
- Be open to receiving feedback.
