Lead Software Engineer (Python) - London

<p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <h2>Tasks</h2> <ul> <li>Collaborate with the product team and in-house hardware engineers to understand the problems of hardware engineering teams.</li> <li>Plan, design, develop, test and iterate on the software solutions to those problems, accounting for functional and non-functional requirements.</li> <li>Co-design, pair on, and review the development work of other lead software developers.</li> <li>You’ll work on the entire company's backend code base: data models, algorithms, data pipelines, infrastructure, APIs, complex database queries, ML models.</li> <li>Learn, use, and improve best practices and processes for high-quality software development.</li> </ul> <p>Our technology stack includes Python 3.11, PostgreSQL, Django, mypy, GraphQL, Docker, Redis, Typescript, React.</p> <h2>Requirements</h2> <p>We’re only considering exceptional candidates, with the following pre-requisites:</p> <ul> <li>5+ years of professional software development experience.</li> <li>2+ years of professional experience in Python.</li> <li>2+ years in a senior software engineer position.</li> <li>Strong communication and team-work skills.</li> <li>Experience working in an agile software development environment.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Nice-to-haves</strong></p> <ul> <li>Experience in a tech lead position.</li> <li>An interest in electronic engineering.</li> </ul> <h2>Benefits</h2> <ul> <li>Collaboration with a friendly world-class team.</li> <li>Above market rate salary and meaningful equity.</li> <li>25 days of annual holidays plus bank holidays.</li> <li>Flexible working hours with two days a week in the office.</li> <li>5 weeks per year to work wherever you want in the world.</li> <li>London Bridge office.</li> <li>Extended parental leave.</li> <li>Learning and development budget to support your professional development.</li> <li>Yearly retreat.</li> <li>Access to Circuit Mind's cutting edge EDA platform.</li> </ul> <p>Find more <a href="https://www.arbeitnow.co.uk/english-speaking-jobs">English Speaking Jobs in United Kingdom</a> on Arbeitnow</a>