Software Engineering Manager

Summary

Join PsiQuantum, a company building the world's first useful quantum computer, as their Director of Software Engineering. Lead and grow a team responsible for developing and deploying a quantum algorithm developer platform for both internal and external users. You will shape the engineering roadmap, establish strong software development practices, and mentor team members. This hands-on role requires significant experience in software development, team management, and cloud infrastructure. The position offers a competitive salary and benefits package.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent experience launching software products
• 10+ years of software development experience including 5+ years building and managing teams of 10+ software engineers (both frontend and backend software developers)
• Experience working with product and program management teams in delivering new SaaS enterprise applications to paying customers
• Proficiency with software development best practices including design, documenting, testing, and debugging, applied to software development lifecycle management
• Deep expertise in object-oriented programming in Python and data engineering in SQL for scalable, high-performance applications
• Proven experience with Design-Driven Development (DDD) methodologies and a strong understanding of user-centered design principles
• Knowledge and experience with AWS infrastructure and services including containerized architectures (Docker, ECS, EKS), database systems (RDS, Databricks, S3), serverless systems (API Gateway, Lambda)
• Strong experience in platform engineering and infrastructure-as-code using Terraform on AWS

Responsibilities

• Lead by example of strong work ethic, establishing strong software development and engineering practices and a high-quality bar for the software development and platform team, focused on team collaboration and user success
• Hire exceptional engineers to grow the team to support our ambitious quantum developer product strategy
• Drive architectural decisions, design documentation, and lead code reviews
• Coordinate deployment of software products into cloud-based production environments
• Oversee our agile development process in close coordination with the product team and software release coordinator program manager
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to team members in the development of the product as well as for personal career development; manage team member performance
• Align team objectives and work with company objectives, in close coordination with other engineering leaders and product leaders
• Define and champion the technical vision and strategy for application software, platform, and systems engineering

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge and experience with frontend development. Familiarity with Svelte Kit is a plus
• Experience with platform engineering to deliver hosted, managed IDEs to researchers and developers
• Experience creating products for developers and/or researchers is a big plus

Benefits

• Full time roles are eligible for equity and benefits
• Base Pay Range $225,000 — $290,000 USD