diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 500fb17..b3db2a4 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -14,4 +14,5 @@ _build/
 build/
 .ipynb_checkpoints/
 dist/
-Cargo.lock
\ No newline at end of file
+Cargo.lock
+src/python/qubed/_version.py
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 3531a47..3234b0b 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] }
 serde_json = "1.0"
 pyo3 = "0.23"
 
+[package.metadata.maturin]
+version-from-git = true
 
 [lib]
 name = "tree_traverser"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 0e46d92..15ddc10 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 [build-system]
-requires = ["maturin>=1.0,<2.0"]
-build-backend = "maturin"
+requires = ["maturin>=0.14", "setuptools", "setuptools-rust", "setuptools_scm"]
+build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
+
+[tool.setuptools_scm]
+write_to = "src/python/qubed/_version.py"
 
 [project]
 name = "qubed"