Lead Python Software Engineer — Pioneering Hardware Design

Circuit Mind Limited; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Circuit Mind in London is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to create elegant solutions for hardware design challenges and guide a talented team. You will collaborate with software, electronics, and product managers to deliver scalable backend systems.

The role requires 5+ years in software, Python and DevOps experience, and a propensity for leadership within an agile environment. Expect a challenging, high-impact role at a growing hardware-software company.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of professional experience in Python.
• 2+ years of professional DevOps experience
• 2+ years in a senior software engineer position.
• Must qualify as a “US Person” to work with ITAR-controlled data.
• Experience working in an agile software development environment.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the product team and in-house hardware engineers to understand the problems of hardware engineering teams.
• Plan, design, develop, test and iterate on the software solutions to those problems, accounting for functional and non-functional requirements.
• Co-design, pair on, and review the development work of other lead software developers.
• You’ll work on the entire company's backend code base: data models, algorithms, data pipelines, infrastructure, APIs, complex database queries, LLM agent pipelines, ML models.
• Deploy, manage and support on-premise deployments of Circuit Mind’s software.
• Learn, use, and improve best practices and processes for high-quality software development.

Skills

Strong communication

Team-work

Agile software development

Leadership

Tools

Python

Django

PostgreSQL

Docker

GraphQL

Typescript

React

Job description

Circuit Mind in London is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to create elegant solutions for hardware design challenges and guide a talented team. You will collaborate with software, electronics, and product managers to deliver scalable backend systems.

The role requires 5+ years in software, Python and DevOps experience, and a propensity for leadership within an agile environment. Expect a challenging, high-impact role at a growing hardware-software company.