Senior Software Developer (Leap Web Services) [562]
D-Wave SystemsBase Salary
$150k - $206k/yr
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with product owners, architects, developers, and cross-functional teams to deliver features from concept through deployment.
- Participate in the full software development lifecycle, including requirements gathering, design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance.
- Develop, maintain, troubleshoot, and enhance scalable Leap platform services and systems.
- Own development tasks, contribute to moderately complex technical solutions, and resolve bugs through code and system-level analysis.
- Write maintainable, documented code and participate in peer code reviews.
- Mentor junior and intermediate developers and support their technical growth.
- Support performance tuning, scalability improvements, and high availability and reliability of the platform.
- Identify blockers, collaborate on resolutions, participate in the annual hackathon, and join the on-call rotation after demonstrating sufficient system knowledge.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 5 years of professional software development experience.
- Proficiency in Python for automation, scripting, and application development.
- Experience designing, implementing, and consuming REST APIs.
- Experience with Git workflows, including branching, merging, and pull requests.
- Experience developing software in a Linux environment.
- Strong understanding of software architecture, algorithms, asynchronous programming, and performance optimization techniques.
- Strong communication, problem-solving, self-motivation, adaptability, and willingness to learn.
- Bonus: experience with Golang or Rust, HPC environments, workload managers such as Slurm, PBS, or PBS Pro, and heterogeneous hardware integration.
- Bonus: experience with AI-assisted development tools, AI-powered productivity solutions, CI/CD pipelines, Jenkins, Spinnaker, AWS, Kubernetes, Argo CD, and production incident response or operational support.
- Ability to pass a Tier 2 background investigation and hold or qualify for a U.S. government security clearance; U.S. citizenship is required.
- No third-party candidates will be accepted.
Benefits
- Eligible U.S.-based full-time and part-time employees regularly scheduled for at least 30 hours per week may receive medical, dental, and vision coverage; disability and life insurance; a 401(k) plan; paid holidays; wellness resources; paid sick time; and flexible paid time off.
- Employees may be eligible for short-term and/or long-term incentive programs.
- Candidates must work from the Burnaby, Canada office for six weeks during onboarding and travel there for at least two weeks per year for organizational meetings, collaboration, and the annual hackathon.
About D-Wave Systems
D-Wave is a leader in the development and delivery of quantum computing systems, software, and services. More than 100 organizations across commercial, government and research sectors trust us to address complex computational challenges using quantum computing. D-Wave is the world’s first commercial supplier of quantum computers and the only one providing both annealing and gate-model quantum technologies. Headquartered in Palo Alto, CA, D-Wave’s mission is to help customers realize the value of quantum today through enterprise-grade systems available on-premises and via its Leap™ quantum cloud service, which offers 99.9% availability and uptime. Explore how quantum computing can tackle your organization’s toughest problems. www.dwavequantum.com.