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# Software Manager

- **Company:** QuantWare
- **Location:** Delft, Netherlands
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Abstraction Layers, Python (Programming Language), Software Architecture, Quantum Computing, Software Engineering, Enterprise Software Applications
- **Published:** October 12, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.nl/details/5811744338

## About the Role

* Experience: 5+ years of professional software leadership experience, with a proven track record of architecting, delivering, and maintaining production-grade software; ideally interfacing with physical hardware, instrumentation, or complex scientific systems.
 * Leadership & Hiring: Proven engineering management background with demonstrated success recruiting, mentoring, and retaining senior software engineers and domain specialist engineers in a fast-paced environment.
 * Technical Proficiency: Deep expertise in the Python ecosystem, modern software architecture principles, modular package structure, and third-party interfacing.
 * Cross-Functional Communication: Excellent leadership and communication skills, with a proven ability to collaborate with scientific domain experts.
 * Domain expertise: Any experience with (superconducting) quantum computing hardware or a closely related field is considered a plus.

## Description

* Own the development roadmap: Own and project manage our calibration software development roadmap. Set clear engineering milestones, enable the team to work efficiently, and maintain transparent progress reporting.
 * Recruit and develop the Team: Lead the recruitment and growth of a multidisciplinary, high-performing team of senior software engineers and quantum device specialists. Establish production-grade software engineering practices, testing frameworks, and contribution models.
 * Architect the software: Drive long-term architectural strategy, including the high-level software package structure and the design of clean hardware abstraction layers.
 * Ecosystem Collaboration: Drive technical collaboration, integration and data hands-offs with third parties.