Lead Software Engineer (Python)

Posted on January 20, 2026
Zurich
Permanent
Posted on January 20, 2026

About this role

Salary: CHF 110’000 - 135’000 per year

Requirements:
  • • 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 teamwork skills.
  • • Experience working in an agile software development environment.
  • Disclaimer: This is currently a remote position, with occasional opportunities to work from our London Bridge office. Looking ahead, the role may transition to a hybrid arrangement based in Zurich.
Responsibilities:
  • • 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.
  • • 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.
Technologies:
  • Backend
  • CTO
  • Django
  • Docker
  • GraphQL
  • Hardware
  • Support
  • PostgreSQL
  • Python
  • React
  • Redis
  • Robotics
  • TypeScript

More:

About Circuit Mind:
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.
Our technology stack includes Python 3.11, PostgreSQL, Django, mypy, GraphQL, Docker, Redis, Typescript, React.

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.
• 5 weeks per year to work wherever you want in the world.
• Zurich office 2x a week.
• Extended parental leave.
• Learning and development budget to support your professional development.
• Yearly retreat.
• Access to Circuit Minds cutting edge EDA platform.

Interview Process:
• Screening Interview, 20–30 min with Operations Manager.
• Technical Interview, 120 min with Rob (Principal Full‑stack Engineer) and Niall (Lead Software Engineer):
  – Hour 1: Review a pull request for a miniature version of our main Python product.
  – Hour 2: Implement a new feature in a similar repository.
• Final Interview, 120 min with Basilio (CTO and Co‑founder) and Rob (Principal Full‑stack Engineer):
  – Deep dive into your experience with behavioural and experience‑based questions.
• Reference Checks: Two references will be contacted for feedback.
• Offer: Based on successful completion of all stages.

Additional Information:
• At Circuit Mind we value diversity and foster an inclusive environment. Any additional necessity or disability that requires accommodation will be taken into consideration to adjust the interview process.

last updated 3 week of 2026

Salary

CHF 110’000 - 135’000 per year
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