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# Lead Software Engineer

- **Company:** Circuit Mind
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Agile Methodology, Computer Engineering, Database Queries, Django Web Framework, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, Machine Learning, Redis, Software Engineering, Software Systems, TypeScript, ReactJS, Backend, Graphql, Data Pipelines, Docker, Service Stack
- **Published:** September 9, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.collegerecruiter.com/job/2856358403-lead-software-engineer

## About the Role

* 5+ years of professional software development experience.
 * 2+ year of professional experience in Python.
 * Strong communication and team-work skills.
 * Experience working in an agile software development environment.

## Description

As a Lead Software Engineer, you'll take full ownership of the development of large pieces of functionality across the back-end stack of Circuit Mind's products. You will collaborate closely with a team of other lead engineer-level individual contributors., * Collaborate with the product team and the hardware team 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.
 * The above apply to 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, Apollo.


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