Job Description

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