Lead Software Engineer

Circuit Mind; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Equity

25 days annual leave

Flexible working

Remote work worldwide

London Bridge office

Parental leave

Learning budget

Job summary

Circuit Mind is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to own large backend features and collaborate with product and hardware teams. You will shape the software stack using Python, Django, GraphQL, and cloud tooling, and mentor other senior developers.

Join a team building an automated design engine for circuit boards, with equity, a London office, and flexible working options. You will influence architecture, be involved in data models, pipelines, and ML-related work.

Qualifications

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

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.

Skills

5+ years of software development

Python

Communication

Agile

Tools

PostgreSQL

Django

mypy

GraphQL

Docker

Redis

TypeScript

React

Apollo

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