Lead Software Engineer (Python)

Circuit Mind; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A pioneering tech company in the United Kingdom seeks a Lead Software Engineer to create innovative solutions for electronic circuit boards. The role involves backend development, collaboration with product and hardware teams, and a focus on high-quality software development practices. Ideal candidates will have over 5 years of software development experience, strong skills in Python, and the ability to work in an agile environment. This position offers competitive salary, equity, and flexible working hours.

Benefits

Above market rate salary

Equity

25 days of holidays plus bank holidays

Flexible working hours

5 weeks per year to work remotely

Learning and development budget

Access to cutting edge EDA platform

Qualifications

• 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 teamwork skills.
• Experience working in an agile software development environment.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product team and hardware engineers to understand problems.
• Plan, design, develop, test software solutions.
• Review the development work of other lead software developers.
• Work on the entire company's backend code base.

Skills

Software development

Python

Agile methodologies

Team collaboration

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 estrevention, 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,getti 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, pairparamref, 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 3.11PrometheusEU, PostgreSQL, Django, mypy, GraphQL, Docker, Redis, Typescript, React.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional softwareГОноtwig 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 странице.
• 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 developmentCSS. Acquisition for you Aadulis year.
• Access to Circuit Mind's cutting edge EDA platform.

Interview Process

• Screening Interview, 20-30 min with Operaton 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.