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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 1 day Toptal's roles stay open a median of 30 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 0% of Toptal's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Toptal
- low 0 stale, 0 reposted of 27 open
- Hiring momentum
- 46 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-17
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Toptal's own lever board since 2026-08-04. Full hiring picture for Toptal.
About this role
As the Chief Technology Officer at Toptal, you will lead the product and engineering teams with a strong focus on integrating AI into the company's core architecture. Your responsibilities include developing AI strategies, overseeing technical architecture, and ensuring high productivity and quality within the engineering team. You will also be involved in hands-on coding and design reviews, while actively participating in hiring and team development.
- benefits
- 1/5
- freshness
- 5/5
- career value
- 5/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Toptal as an employer.
What you need
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
- 15+ years of progressive engineering leadership experience
- Significant time as a CTO or VP of Engineering
- Deep, current, hands-on command of modern AI engineering
- Experience deploying agentic systems at scale
- Proven ownership of resourcing and workforce planning
Nice to have
- Advanced degree in a related field
- Experience with high-volume, two-sided marketplace or multi-tenant platform
Worth weighing
- No salary listed
- Role requires a hands-on approach, not just oversight
- Expectations for rapid execution and measurable outcomes
- High emphasis on hiring and team development
Summarised from Toptal's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by Toptal on their lever job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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