Paris, Île-de-France, France Hybrid

Alice & Bob is hiring a Senior Staff Software Engineer

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement services, APIs, and internal frameworks that support experiment automation, calibration, configuration management, and workflow orchestration.
  • Select and integrate storage solutions—including relational, NoSQL, object storage, and columnar formats—based on scalability and access requirements.
  • Establish architectural standards that promote modularity, maintainability, and rapid development cycles across the platform.
  • Work closely with physicists and research teams to align software models and interfaces with experimental use cases and iteration speed.
  • Collaborate with data engineering teams to develop robust data ingestion pipelines, schema governance, lifecycle policies, and shared storage conventions.
  • Define and implement full-stack architecture for delivering quantum processing units as a unified product, including APIs, orchestration, deployment, and cloud/HPC integration.
  • Lead long-term technical planning, architectural evolution, and alignment across multiple engineering teams.
  • Guide engineering teams through mentorship, critical evaluation of design choices, and leading platform-wide architecture reviews.

Benefits

  • 25 days of paid vacation annually, in accordance with French labor regulations, plus RTT time-off benefits
  • 50% subsidy for public transportation costs per French legal standards, or an annual stipend for employees using bicycles
  • Comprehensive health insurance coverage provided through Helium and AXA
  • Meal vouchers via Swile platform and access to a fully stocked kitchen space
  • Support for new parents including childcare assistance
  • Flexible remote work policy allowing up to 40% of work time outside the office each month
  • Company-funded language training programs
  • Mental well-being support through moka.care platform
  • Partially funded membership to Urban Sports Club for fitness and wellness activities

Work Arrangement

Hybrid

Other

  • Language courses covered by the company
  • Flexible remote policy, up to 40 % a month
Required Skills
PythonSQLNoSQLBackend ArchitecturePerformance OptimizationDistributed Systems
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Alice & Bob
Develops the first universal, fault-tolerant quantum computer based on superconducting Schrödinger cat qubits to solve the world’s hardest problems. Competes with tech giants like Google and IBM.
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Job Details
Department Software Development
Category backend
Posted 6 months ago