Quantum Computing Inc. · 7 hours ago
Senior Engineer, Backend: Cloud & API Development (Remote)
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
5+ years expQuantum Computing Inc. (QCi) is an innovative company specializing in accessible and affordable quantum machines. They are seeking a Senior Cloud API Developer to maintain and develop cloud APIs for their photonic quantum hardware, focusing on building a microservices ecosystem and ensuring API security standards.
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Responsibilities
Design, build, and maintain high-performance RESTful APIs using Golang and Python to support a broad ecosystem
Architect asynchronous, event-driven workflows using RabbitMQ (or similar message brokers) to decouple job scheduling, hardware execution, and result processing
Optimize service-to-service communication to ensure low latency and high reliability across a distributed stack
Monitor system health and implement distributed tracing to debug complex microservice interactions
Implement industry-standard security best practices for API authentication and authorization (OAuth2, OIDC, mTLS)
Work within existing deployment and testing patterns to add new services to CI/CD
Qualification
Required
5+ years of professional backend software engineering experience
Expert proficiency in Golang and Python for production services
Strong background in message queuing systems (RabbitMQ, Kafka, or NATS) and event-driven architecture patterns
Proven track record of implementing API security best practices, including OAuth2, JWT, and protection against OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities (Injection, Broken Auth)
Experience designing scalable database schemas (SQL, NoSQL) and managing databases with indexing and TTL
Preferred
Experience with gRPC and Protocol Buffers
Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions) and automated testing strategies
Company
Quantum Computing Inc.
Quantum Computing Inc.
11-50 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$1.7B2025-10-05Post Ipo Equity· $750M
2025-09-21Post Ipo Equity· $500M
2025-06-23Post Ipo Equity· $200M
Leadership Team
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Bill McGann
Chief Executive Officer
Recent News
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