Software Engineer

Join Q-CTRL, a leading quantum computing company, as a Software Engineer on the Boulder Opal team. In this role, you will build the backend infrastructure that supports our quantum software platform, working alongside compiler engineers and researchers. You will design, build, and maintain scalable backend services, develop APIs, and improve performance and reliability across backend components. This is an ideal opportunity for a strong backend engineer interested in systems programming and looking to develop expertise in compiler engineering.

• Design, build and maintain scalable backend services in Python and C++, and develop APIs and backend services supporting our compiler and quantum runtime.
• Collaborate with compiler engineers to integrate new compiler capabilities into production systems, and work with researchers and product teams to deliver new platform capabilities.
• Improve performance, reliability and observability across backend components, and build reliable distributed systems and cloud-native services.
• Strong programming skills in Python
• Experience building backend systems or distributed services
• Experience with modern C++
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related discipline
• Experience designing APIs using REST, gRPC or GraphQL
• Experience building high-performance backend systems
• Experience with asynchronous programming and concurrency
• Experience with FastAPI, Flask or Django
• Familiarity with compiler concepts or programming language implementation
• Exposure to LLVM or MLIR
• Interest in quantum computing or scientific software
• Experience with Rust, Go, or other systems programming languages