Fullstack Engineer Tech Lead at Turnstile

About Us

Turnstile is the revenue automation platform that makes quote-to-cash easy - no matter how you price. We streamline quoting, billing, and subscription management for modern B2B SaaS companies. Our customers range from seed-stage startups to companies approaching $100M ARR.

We're a small, fully remote, and proven team with multiple "best places to work" awards to our credit. We have strong backing from First Round Capital, and recently raised our Series A. The last company we started, Second Measure, scaled to 70+ people and tens of millions in revenue, and was ultimately acquired by Bloomberg in a landmark deal.

🚀 The Opportunity

We’re looking for a Technical Lead with real zero-to-one experience—ideally a former founder or early-stage startup engineer—to help architect and scale our product. In this role, you’ll mentor a team, while working directly with our technical founders to ship core features, define engineering practices, and deliver a user experience that delights our customers.

📈 What You’ll Do Here

• Build the foundation of our product. Architect and deliver critical end-to-end features that move us toward MVP and product-market fit.

• Technical Leadership. Mentor a small team of engineers, helping them execute and make tradeoffs.

• Translate complex concepts into clean software. Work closely with founders, product, and design to turn nuanced business logic into intuitive, reliable systems.

• Ship with urgency and intention. Prioritize high-impact work, iterate quickly, and deliver customer value with velocity.

• Establish engineering best practices. Help define a culture of pragmatic craftsmanship, operational excellence, and collaborative decision-making.

• Support and scale production systems. Ensure reliability, performance, and quality for the core systems that power our customers’ workflows.

🔎 What We’re Looking For

• 3+ years of technical leadership experience. You’ve built and led high-performing teams (while also enjoying being a hands-on contributor).

• Experience as a founder or early startup builder. You’ve operated in high-ambiguity environments and understand the realities of zero-to-one product development.

• Strong full-stack expertise. You’re proficient in React, you’ve built APIs (REST or GraphQL) and backends using Node.js or Flask.

• Hands-on integration experience. You’ve worked with public SaaS APIs like Stripe, Twilio, Segment, Docusign, or Salesforce.

• Operational maturity. You have experience owning production systems, including on-call responsibilities, debugging, and reliability work.

➕ Bonus Points For

• AI. Building AI-augmented or agentic products, as well as using modern AI coding tools.

• RevOps. Familiarity with billing, finance, sales, or CS products and personas.

💫 Why Turnstile?

• Competitive and Fair Pay. Equal pay by role and level at the 75th percentile of SF salaries ($200,000 to $230,000 for this role, depending on level) plus meaningful equity

• Fully Remote. Distributed by design with team members from San Francisco to Toronto

• Fully Covered Health Benefits. 100% paid medical, mental health, dental, and vision premiums for you and your family

• Paid Parental Leave. 16 weeks for birthing parent, 12 weeks for all other parents welcoming a new child into their home

• 401(k). With 4% company contribution, regardless of what you put in

• Flexible PTO. Take the time you need to unplug and unwind

👫 Sound like a fit? We’d love to hear from you.
Turnstile is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We learn from perspectives that are different from our own and are committed to creating an equitable and inclusive environment for all our employees.