Quantum Machines is a global leader in control systems for quantum computing, scaling from individual qubits to arrays of thousands.
We're looking for a hands-on Tech Lead to drive the technical direction of our core backend layer and lead the engineers building it. The systems you'll own handle bursty, high-throughput workloads: thousands of requests per second, strict latency requirements, distributed coordination, hard concurrency problems. You'll shape the architecture, review the designs, and still write the code.
What Makes This Role Different
Our backend team is the orchestration layer between:
- Hardware control systems (C++)
- Client-exposed SDK (Python)
- Reporting and management system (Go)
- Business logic (Java/Kotlin + Spring)
As Tech Lead, you're the technical anchor of that layer. When teams disagree on where a boundary belongs, you drive the decision. When a design has a flaw nobody's spotted, you catch it. When the hardest problem lands, you're close enough to the code to pick it up yourself.
RequirementsRequirements
- 8+ years building backend systems in Java/Kotlin, including experience leading the technical work of a team
- You still write code, and you're good at it - this is not a management-only role
- Deep concurrency expertise: race conditions, lock ordering, async patterns - and you can teach others to reason about them
- Architecture at system scale: throughput, distributed coordination, performance trade-offs
- Design review leadership: you can take apart a design constructively and propose one that will hold
- A track record of mentoring engineers who got better because of you
- You treat code quality as a system property, building the standards and culture that sustain it
Strong Plus
- Spring experience
- gRPC-based communication
- Python programming
- Experience in polyglot environments
- AI coding agent experience, with opinions on how a team should use them well
- Experience with real-time, low-latency, or hardware-adjacent systems
You'll Thrive Here If You
- Lead through reasoning, not title
- Ask questions when requirements are unclear, rather than guessing
- Know when to insist on "right" vs. "good enough to ship"
- Give direct, kind feedback
- Communicate clearly, including to non-backend audiences
Skills Required
- 5+ years building backend systems in modern OOP languages
- Deep understanding of object-oriented programming
- Concurrency expertise
- Experience building scalable systems
- Knowledge of design patterns and architecture
- Experience with code review, testing, and integration
- Care about code quality
What We Do
Quantum Machines envisions a new technological age. A time when quantum computing revolutionizes entire industries, solves global problems, and drives unprecedented innovation. That’s why we made it our mission to build the Quantum Orchestration Platform (QOP): the platform to realize the full potential of quantum computing technologies at any scale and deliver the most advanced quantum capabilities to quantum system developers. Built by a world-class multidisciplinary team of quantum scientists and engineers, the QOP powers quantum breakthroughs and accelerates the path towards the new age of quantum computing
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