Based in San Francisco, California, Turing is the world’s leading research accelerator for frontier AI labs and a trusted partner for global enterprises looking to deploy advanced AI systems. Turing accelerates frontier research with high-quality data, specialized talent, and training pipelines that advance thinking, reasoning, coding, multimodality, and STEM. For enterprises, Turing builds proprietary intelligence systems that integrate AI into mission-critical workflows, unlock transformative outcomes, and drive lasting competitive advantage.
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We’re looking for an Engineering Lead / Architect who can own the technical direction of a complex platform modernization while staying hands-on enough to validate that direction through real delivery. This role sits at the intersection of architecture, engineering leadership, and execution—setting the runway for how we build, integrate, and evolve systems.
You’ll define integration strategy, establish non-functional requirements, maintain the architecture decision log (ADRs), and ensure the team builds on patterns that hold up at scale. You’ll also be the technical conscience of the program—helping the team make pragmatic tradeoffs without accumulating hidden debt.
What You’ll Do- Own the architecture runway: define integration patterns, NFRs, security posture, and technical standards that the team builds against.
- Maintain and evolve the technical decision log (ADRs)—capturing context, alternatives considered, and rationale so decisions remain traceable.
- Drive design reviews and ensure architectural consistency across backend services, APIs, frontend components, and data flows.
- Partner with Product, DevOps, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into architecture that balances correctness, operability, and delivery speed.
- Evaluate build-vs-buy and integration decisions with clear frameworks—especially around AKS, API gateway patterns, event-driven architecture, and workflow orchestration.
- Establish security and audit patterns: authentication, authorization, API contracts, data classification, and audit trail design.
- Hands-on contribution where it matters most: proof-of-concepts, critical-path components, and reference implementations that set the quality bar.
- Mentor engineers through design conversations, code reviews, and architecture pairing—raising the team’s ability to make good technical decisions independently.
- Use AI tools to accelerate architecture work (analysis, documentation, pattern evaluation), while maintaining strong judgment and validation.
- 10+ years of software engineering experience with meaningful time in architecture or technical leadership roles.
- Deep experience with Java platform architecture (Spring Boot, Spring Security, modern Java) and API design (REST, contract-first, versioning).
- Strong understanding of security and audit patterns: OAuth/OIDC, RBAC, API gateway design, data classification, and compliance-aware architecture.
- Experience with cloud-native platforms, preferably AKS/Kubernetes, and familiarity with infrastructure-as-code and deployment pipelines.
- Proven ability to define and enforce integration patterns across distributed teams—you can set standards without becoming a bottleneck.
- Excellent written communication: your ADRs, design documents, and technical proposals are clear, concise, and decision-ready.
- A pragmatic mindset: you prefer proven patterns over novel ones, and you optimize for clarity and maintainability over cleverness.
- Experience with event-driven architecture and messaging systems (Azure Event Hubs, Kafka, or similar).
- Familiarity with workflow orchestration platforms (Temporal or similar) and their architectural implications.
- Experience modernizing legacy platforms while maintaining business continuity—especially migrations from monolithic or component-based systems.
- Exposure to design reviews and architecture governance in regulated or control-oriented domains (financial services, operations, accounting).
$220k - $250k Total Cash Compensation + equity
We are client first: We put our clients at the center of everything we do, because their success is the ultimate measure of our value.
We work at Start-Up Speed: We move fast, stay agile and favor action because momentum is the foundation of perfection
We are AI forward: We help our clients build the future of Al and implement it in our own roles and workflow to amplify productivity.
Amazing work culture (Super collaborative & supportive work environment; 5 days a week)
Awesome colleagues (Surround yourself with top talent from Meta, Google, LinkedIn etc. as well as people with deep startup experience)
Competitive compensation
Flexible working hours
Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. Turing is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, protected veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristics. At Turing we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace and celebrate authenticity, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
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