Lead Software Engineer (Python)

Circuit Mind; England; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A cutting-edge technology company in England is looking for a Lead Software Engineer to develop innovative software solutions for electronic circuit boards. As a key member of a collaborative team, you will engage in backend development using technologies like Python, PostgreSQL, and Django. Candidates should have over 5 years of experience in software development, with strong communication skills and a background in agile methodologies. The role offers competitive salary, equity, and flexible working arrangements.

Benefits

Above market rate salary and meaningful equity

25 days of annual holidays plus bank holidays

Flexible working hours with two days a week in the office

Learning and development budget

Yearly retreat

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product team and hardware engineers.
• Design, develop, and test software solutions.
• Review development work of other lead software developers.
• Work on entire backend code base: data models, algorithms, APIs.
• Improve best practices for high-quality software development.

Skills

Python

Agile development

Teamwork

Communication

Tools

PostgreSQL

Django

Docker

React

Job description

About Circuit Mind

Electronic circuit boards are at the core of current and future inventions - space travel, medical robotics, autonomous transportation, augmented reality, bio-engineering. 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.

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 create simple and elegant solutions to difficult technical problems that the world has not solved before. You will work in close collaboration with a highly-functioning team of software, electronics, algorithm engineers and product managers.

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, 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.

Qualifications

We’re only considering exceptional candidates, with the following pre‑requisites :

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

Nice‑to‑haves

• Experience in a tech lead position.
• An interest in electronic engineering.

Benefits

• Collaboration with a friendly world‑class team.
• Above market rate salary and meaningful equity.
• 25 days of annual holidays plus bank holidays.
• Flexible working hours with two days a week in the office.
• 5 weeks per year to work wherever you want in the world.
• London Bridge office.
• Extended parental leave.
• Learning and development budget to support your professional development.
• Yearly retreat.
• Access to Circuit Mind's cutting edge EDA platform.

Interview Process

• Screening Interview, 20‑30 min with Operations Manager
• Technical Interview, 120 min with Rob (Principal Full‑stack Engineer) and Niall (Lead Software Engineer):
  • Hour 1: Review a pull request for a miniature version of our main Python product.
  • Hour 2: Implement a new feature in a similar repository.
• Final Interview, 120 min With Basilio (CTO and Co‑founder) and Rob (Principal Full‑stack Engineer). Deep dive into your experience with behavioral and experience‑based questions.
• Reference Checks : Two references that you provide will be contacted for feedback.
• Offer : Based on successful completion of all stages.

At Circuit Mind we value diversity and foster an inclusive environment. If you have an additional necessity or disability that requires accommodation, please let us know so we can adjust the interview process to your needs. We also ensure that Circuit Mind’s straight‑forward and efficient hiring process respects your time.