Senior Staff Software Engineer

🕒 December 18, 2025

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Alice & Bob

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11 - 50 employees

💼 Consulting

🏭 Manufacturing

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

💰 Series A on 2022-03

Consulting • Manufacturing • Artificial Intelligence

Alice & Bob is a company focused on building universal, error-free quantum computers designed to enable industries and researchers to solve complex problems. With innovations in self-correcting quantum bits, Alice & Bob aims to overcome the errors that have historically limited the usefulness of quantum computing, thereby providing fault-tolerant solutions capable of executing any quantum algorithm. As a spin-off from prestigious academic institutions in France, Alice & Bob is at the forefront of advancements in quantum technology.

📋 Description

• Architect the **services, APIs, and internal frameworks** powering experiment workflows, calibration systems, automation loops, and configuration management. • Choose and integrate appropriate storage technologies (SQL, NoSQL, object stores, columnar formats) to support scaling needs and diverse access patterns. • Define architectural patterns that maximize **agility, modularity, and maintainability** across the platform. • Collaborate closely with physicists and researchers to ensure models and interfaces reflect real experimental needs and enable fast iteration. • Partner with data engineering to build reliable ingestion paths, schema governance, data lifecycle strategies, and cross-team storage standards. • Shape the end-to-end architecture required to deliver the QPU as a **cohesive product**: API design, user orchestration, deployment strategy, and integration with HPC/cloud ecosystems. • Drive long-term architectural strategy, technical roadmap, and cross-organizational alignment. • Mentor teams, challenge assumptions, and lead architecture reviews across the platform department.

🎯 Requirements

• 12+ years designing large-scale backend/platform architectures. • Superior engineering proficiency in **Python**, async frameworks, service design, data orchestration, and performance optimization. • Demonstrated experience architecting complex **infrastructure and data-heavy distributed systems**. • Ability to define clean abstractions and synchronization mechanisms for **hardware/software interaction loops**. • Deep expertise with **storage technologies across SQL, NoSQL, timeseries, object storage, and distributed filesystems**. • Strong product mindset: ability to think about **end-to-end delivery**, user experience, reliability, and long-term lifecycle. • Ability to collaborate and challenge ideas with physicists, academic-level experts, and deeply technical researchers. • Strong technical leadership: able to influence direction, align teams, and support cross-domain decision-making.

🏖️ Benefits

• 25-day vacation policy (as per French law) + RTT • Half of transportation cost coverage (as per French law), or yearly allowance for bike enthusiasts • Competitive health benefits with Helium/AXA • Meal vouchers with Swile, as well as access to a fully equipped kitchen • Parental benefits with crèche support • Flexible remote policy, up to 40 % a month • Language courses covered by the company • Mental health support with moka.care • Subsidized membership with Urban Sports Club