Hybrid Senior Cloud Backend Software Engineer

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About the role

  • Senior Cloud Backend Software Engineer designing and building scalable backend services for quantum technologies. Focused on developing cloud-native microservice architectures and reliable backend systems.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and operate cloud-native backend services and microservice architectures supporting both internal engineering platforms and externally accessible APIs.
  • Build Python-based backend systems using modern frameworks such as FastAPI and SQLAlchemy to implement scalable, maintainable services.
  • Architect and implement distributed systems that support experiment orchestration, telemetry collection, data ingestion, and device interaction workflows.
  • Design backend systems with strong focus on reliability, scalability, observability, and fault tolerance, including monitoring, logging, tracing, and graceful degradation.
  • Deploy and operate services using Docker containers, local development environments with Docker Compose, and production orchestration using Kubernetes.
  • Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams including physicists, hardware engineers, and research scientists to translate experimental workflows into scalable software systems.
  • Mentor junior engineers and promote best practices in backend architecture, distributed systems design, reliability engineering, and software development.
  • Lead architecture discussions, design reviews, and code reviews to maintain high engineering standards and system maintainability.
  • Contribute to platform reliability and operational excellence, diagnosing production issues, improving system performance, and strengthening infrastructure resilience.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Physics, or related field with 3+ years of professional software engineering experience.
  • Strong experience developing backend systems in Python, particularly using modern frameworks such as FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, or similar tools.
  • Experience designing and implementing and deploying distributed systems or microservice architectures, using tools including Docker, Docker Compose & Kubernetes.
  • Experience designing systems for reliability, scalability, and operational robustness and using CI/CD pipelines, automated testing infrastructure, and deployment automation.
  • Strong understanding of software engineering best practices, including testing, version control, debugging, observability, documentation, and maintainability.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across interdisciplinary teams.
  • **Desirable Skills or Knowledge**
  • Experience building distributed systems in cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure, or similar).
  • Experience with message queues and event-driven architectures (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ, NATS, or similar).
  • Experience with database systems and data infrastructure, including relational databases, time-series databases, and large-scale data pipelines.
  • Experience building Python packages with native extensions (Rust/C/C++).

Benefits

  • In addition to your base compensation, we offer a generous Total Rewards program which includes:
  • Competitive salary
  • Incentive Stock Option Plan
  • Generous company pension contribution
  • Unlimited PTO
  • BUPA healthcare after probation period
  • Cycle to work and Technology scheme

Job title

Senior Cloud Backend Software Engineer

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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