Lead Software Engineer

Circuit Mind Limited; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual holidays

Flexible working environment

Equity

Learning and development budget

Extended parental leave

Job summary

Circuit Mind Limited is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to take ownership of large parts of the backend stack across our products. You will collaborate closely with the product and hardware teams to understand their needs and translate them into scalable software solutions.

Our tech stack includes Python 3.11, PostgreSQL, Django, mypy, GraphQL, Docker, Redis, TypeScript, React, and Apollo. The role emphasizes leadership, code quality, and hands-on development across the backend ecosystem.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of professional experience in Python.
• Strong communication and teamwork skills.
• Experience in an agile software development environment.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product and hardware teams to understand problems of hardware engineering teams.
• Plan, design, develop, test and iterate software solutions, accounting for functional and non-functional requirements.
• Co-design, pair on, and review the work of other lead software developers.
• Maintain the backend code base: data models, algorithms, pipelines, infrastructure, APIs, complex queries, ML models.

Skills

Python

Django

GraphQL

Typescript

React

Docker

Redis

SQL

Agile

Tools

PostgreSQL

Mypy

GraphQL

Job description

Electronic circuit boards are at the core of current and future inventions - mobile phones, augmented reality, autonomous vehicles and spacecrafts. Yet today designing an electronic circuit board is an extremely manual, long and tedious process. At Circuit Mind we believe that this is wrong and we are on a mission to fix it, triggering the future of hardware design.

Taking inspiration from the integrated circuit workflow (hardware description language, logic synthesis, automated place and route), we are creating an entirely new software engine for circuit boards, that takes as inputs the requirements of a circuit board and automatically outputs a complete design, ready for manufacture.

As a Lead Software Engineer, you’ll take full ownership of the development of large pieces of functionality across the back-end stack of Circuit Mind's products. You will collaborate closely with a team of other lead engineer-level individual contributors.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the product team and the hardware team 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.
• The above apply to the entire company's backend code base: data models, algorithms, data pipelines, infrastructure, APIs, complex database queries, ML models.
• Learn, use, and improve best practices and processes for high-quality software development.

Our technology stack includes Python 3.11, PostgreSQL, Django, mypy, GraphQL, Docker, Redis, Typescript, React, Apollo.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• 2+ year of professional experience in Python.
• Strong communication and team-work skills.
• Experience working in an agile software development environment.

Nice to haves

• Experience in a tech lead position.

Company Benefits

• Technical challenges that the world has not solved before and the chance to shape first-hand the electronics revolution.
• Collaboration with friendly world-class team.
• Competitive salary and equity.
• 25 days of annual holidays.
• Flexible working environment.
• 5 weeks per year to work wherever you want in the world.
• London Bridge office.
• Extended parental leave.
• Learning and development budget.

Interview Process

• 45 mins Screening with Operations Manager