Lead Software Engineer (Python)

  • Circuit Mind
  • 11/05/2026
Full time Information Technology Telecommunications SQL Python Software Engineer

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.

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.

Tasks
  • 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, 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.

Requirements

We're only considering exceptional candidates, with the following pre-requisites:

  • 5+ years of professional software development experience.
  • 2+ years of professional experience in Python.
  • 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.
  • An interest in electronic engineering.
Benefits
  • Collaboration with a friendly world-class team.
  • Above market rate salary and meaningful equity.
  • 25 days of annual holidays plus bank holidays.
  • Flexible working hours with two days a week in the office.
  • 5 weeks per year to work wherever you want in the world.
  • London Bridge office.
  • Extended parental leave.
  • Learning and development budget to support your professional development.
  • Yearly retreat.
  • Access to Circuit Mind's cutting edge EDA platform.