Lead Software Engineer (Python) - US

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

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.

Your Mission

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, 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.

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

Qualifications

• Must qualify as a “US Person” to work with ITAR-controlled data.
• 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.
• Strong communication and team-work skills.
• Experience working in an agile software development environment.

Nice to haves

• Experience in a tech lead position.
• Experience in ITAR / EAR / FedRAMP / GovCloud environments.
• Experience with AWS.
• Collaboration with a friendly world-class team.
• Above market rate salary and meaningful equity.
• Learning and development budget to support your professional development.
• Yearly retreat.
• Access to Circuit Mind’s cutting edge EDA platform.

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.

Units 515-517, Metal Box Factory, 30 Great Guilford Street, London SE1 0HS