Software Tech Lead

Company: Riverlane
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Location: Cambridge
Job Description:

Overview

In this role you guide the technical development of Riverlane’s DF-AMO software stack for scalable quantum error correction, collaborating with engineering, research, product and customers. You shape the technical roadmap and ensure a production-ready system that meets latency and throughput needs. You mentor a growing team and foster a collaborative delivery culture in a fast-moving, cross-functional environment. This is a chance to influence how QEC enables practical quantum computing at scale.

Pay / Benefits

  • annual bonus plan
  • private medical insurance
  • life insurance
  • contributory pension scheme
  • equity
  • 28 days annual leave + bank holidays

Responsibilities

  • Own the technical development of the DF-AMO product
  • Collaborate with engineering, research, product and customer teams
  • Turn decoding technology into a scalable, production-ready system
  • Shape the technical roadmap and future product direction
  • Evaluate trade-offs for performance, maintainability and scalability
  • Mentor and develop a team of 5+ engineers
  • Foster a culture of collaboration and delivery

Key requirements

  • Proven experience leading small to medium technical efforts (5+ people)
  • Excellent software skills in C++, Python beneficial
  • Comfortable learning quantum error correction fundamentals
  • Experience delivering complex software products from concept to deployment and customer adoption
  • Experience line managing other engineers
  • Strong collaboration and communication with a diverse team
  • Expert-level understanding in at least one: performant multi-process software, modern compiler infrastructures, GPU-accelerated computing
  • strong collaboration
  • excellent communication
  • mentoring and people development
  • C++
  • Python
  • performant multi-process software

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Posted: October 1st, 2026