Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Zapata Quantum is a pioneering company in the field of quantum computing, dedicated to translating advanced research into practical applications. They are looking for a Lead Full-Stack Engineer to provide technical leadership for a team focused on developing a knowledge graph and interactive web application related to quantum computing. The role involves hands-on software architecture, mentorship, and guiding the integration of AI-enabled features while ensuring high standards of software quality and maintainability.
Responsibilities
- Provide hands-on technical leadership for a small engineering team, setting technical direction and supporting the team’s execution and delivery
- Design, architect, build, and continuously improve a modern, interactive web application, including selecting appropriate frameworks, system architecture, and technical approaches
- Lead architectural and product-related technical decisions, exercising independent judgment when evaluating tools, technologies, tradeoffs, and design patterns
- Establish engineering standards and best practices for software design, code quality, testing, documentation, security, and maintainability
- Mentor and support other engineers through technical guidance, code reviews, collaborative problem-solving, and constructive feedback
- Break complex initiatives into clear technical plans, coordinate engineering priorities, and help ensure projects are delivered on time and to a high standard
- Independently analyze complex technical problems and develop scalable, reliable, and maintainable software solutions
- Design and implement backend systems, data models, APIs, and integrations that support complex application functionality
- Design and develop clean, intuitive user experiences for navigating and interacting with complex technical content
- Integrate AI-enabled features such as intelligent search, recommendations, contextual assistance, and other emerging application capabilities
- Collaborate with product, design, domain experts, and company leadership to translate business and user needs into practical technical solutions
- Remain actively involved in software development while balancing individual contributions with leadership of the broader engineering effort
- Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies, including AI-assisted development tools, when they can meaningfully improve productivity, quality, or application performance
Skills
- At least 2 years of experience serving in a technical lead, engineering lead, or comparable software leadership role
- Demonstrated experience providing technical direction, mentoring engineers, conducting code reviews, and supporting the delivery of complex software projects
- Strong full-stack engineering fundamentals, with particular depth in backend architecture, data modeling, APIs, and scalable system design
- Demonstrated experience designing, building, and maintaining production-quality, user-facing web applications
- Experience making architectural decisions and evaluating technical tradeoffs across frontend, backend, infrastructure, and application integrations
- Familiarity with AI-enabled application workflows, tools, or integrations
- Strong understanding of UI/UX principles and product usability, with the ability to translate complex information into intuitive user experiences
- Ability to work autonomously, manage competing priorities, and deliver results with minimal oversight
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to explain technical decisions to both technical and nontechnical stakeholders
- An efficiency-focused mindset and willingness to adopt new tools, including AI-assisted development tools, to improve engineering productivity
- Ability and enthusiasm to learn unfamiliar technical domains as needed; prior quantum computing experience is not required
- Experience with data-intensive, graph-based, or visualization-heavy applications
- Evidence of shipped products, professional work, or substantial personal projects
- Strong communication skills and comfort articulating technical and design decisions
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