Remote Senior Backend Engineer - Cloud & API Systems

QUANTUM COMPUTING, INC.; Hoboken (NJ); Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Quantum Computing Inc. offers a remote Senior Cloud API Developer role focused on maintaining and expanding cloud APIs for photonic quantum hardware. You will develop a distributed microservices stack that handles complex optimization jobs, user access, and hardware control.

The role emphasizes distributed systems, asynchronous messaging, and strict API security, with services running in cloud and on-premise hardware stacks. Join a team driving quantum computing software ecosystems.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional backend software engineering experience.
• Expert proficiency in Golang and Python for production services.
• Strong background in message queuing systems (RabbitMQ, Kafka, or NATS) and event-driven architecture patterns.
• Proven track record of implementing API security best practices, including OAuth2, JWT, and protection against OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities (Injection, Broken Auth).
• Experience designing scalable database schemas (SQL, NoSQL) and managing databases with indexing and TTL.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain high-performance RESTful APIs using Golang and Python to support a broad ecosystem.
• Architect asynchronous, event-driven workflows using RabbitMQ (or similar message brokers) to decouple job scheduling, hardware execution, and result processing.
• Optimize service-to-service communication to ensure low latency and high reliability across a distributed stack.
• Monitor system health and implement distributed tracing to debug complex microservice interactions.
• Implement industry-standard security best practices for API authentication and authorization (OAuth2, OIDC, mTLS).
• Work within existing deployment and testing patterns to add new services to CI/CD.

Skills

Golang

Python

Kubernetes

RabbitMQ

Microservices

REST APIs

gRPC

OAuth2

Docker

PostgreSQL

Linux

Git

CI/CD

MongoDB

FastAPI

Job description

Quantum Computing Inc. offers a remote Senior Cloud API Developer role focused on maintaining and expanding cloud APIs for photonic quantum hardware. You will develop a distributed microservices stack that handles complex optimization jobs, user access, and hardware control.

The role emphasizes distributed systems, asynchronous messaging, and strict API security, with services running in cloud and on-premise hardware stacks. Join a team driving quantum computing software ecosystems.