8th Light

Full-stack Engineer

• As a lead technologist on projects, you’ll work with a variety of clients, typically one to two in a year, through a variety of technologies and frameworks over the course of your career with us.
• You’ll lead more complicated projects, leading teams to do so.
• You’ll work with colleagues who share your passion for technology solutions.
• You’ll invest time developing your skills and sharing what you know.
• Making immediate contributions to projects, rapidly building trust with clients.
• Working pragmatically to balance technology choices while delivering high-quality work within deadlines.
• Leading architecture and software design discussions.
• Collaborating on systems that involve the full ML lifecycle from data ingestion and preprocessing, to model deployment, integration, and performance monitoring.
• Generating new potential solutions to challenges (technical and non-technical) in partnership with team members and clients.
• Leading or initiating formal feedback conversations with teams and clients via retrospectives.
• Clearly articulating and documenting outcomes and driving forward action items.
• Contributing to the health of your team and 8th Light’s culture by modeling our Values.
• Ensuring your team has a healthy, prioritized, estimated backlog.
• Managing high-level project roadmaps as the team lead for large engagements.
• Maintaining relationships with client technical leaders.
• Regular syncs with the client to provide status updates, and for identifying and evaluating risks and presenting potential solutions.
• Identifying, mitigating, and resolving blockers to team progress.
• Contributing to 8th Light by serving as a mentor, leading or designing workshops internally or for clients, representing 8th Light in the tech community, or supporting our hiring processes.

Lead Software Engineer

• Rapidly building trust with clients, demonstrating technical expertise and understanding of their domain and objectives
• Guiding technical direction, solving complex problems, and demonstrating best practices while remaining deeply engaged within the codebase
• Working pragmatically to balance technology choices while delivering high-quality work within deadlines
• Advising clients on architecture, scalability and platform evolution, connecting technical decisions to product and business outcomes
• Collaborating on systems that involve the full ML lifecycle from data ingestion and preprocessing, to model deployment, integration, and performance monitoring
• Driving innovation by proactively surfacing new technical approaches and product solutions
• Leading or initiating formal feedback conversations with teams and clients via retrospectives
• Clearly articulating and documenting outcomes and driving forward action items
• Contributing to the health of your team and 8th Light’s culture by modeling our Values
• Designing and managing high-level technical roadmaps for large engagements
• Building your network and maintaining relationships with clients and other industry leaders within your domain
• Coaching client engineering teams, transferring knowledge and leveling up practices
• Influencing client CTOs and executive decisions. Planning and execute technical work that involves stakeholders outside of project boundaries such as across a client's technical organization
• Participating in account planning; opportunity identification.
• Facilitating retrospectives, strategy sessions, and technical deep-dives to improve team and project outcomes
• Identifying, mitigating, and resolving blockers to team progress
• Contributing to 8th Light by serving as a mentor, leading or designing workshops internally or for clients, representing 8th Light in the tech community, or supporting our hiring processes
• Demonstrating leadership in scalable system design, modular architecture, and platform- or product-oriented development.
• Bringing depth in testing strategies, observability, fault tolerance, and secure engineering practices.
• Applying architectural patterns to evaluate tradeoffs and drive clear, documented design rationale.

Principal Software Engineer

• Rapidly building trust with clients, demonstrating technical expertise and understanding of their domain and objectives
• Guiding technical direction, solving complex problems, and demonstrating best practices while remaining deeply engaged within the codebase
• Working pragmatically to balance technology choices while delivering high-quality work within deadlines
• Advising clients on architecture, scalability and platform evolution, connecting technical decisions to product and business outcomes
• Collaborating on systems that involve the full ML lifecycle from data ingestion and preprocessing, to model deployment, integration, and performance monitoring
• Driving innovation by proactively surfacing new technical approaches and product solutions
• Leading or initiating formal feedback conversations with teams and clients via retrospectives
• Clearly articulating and documenting outcomes and driving forward action items
• Contributing to the health of your team and 8th Light’s culture by modelling our Values
• Designing and managing high-level technical roadmaps for large engagements
• Building your network and maintaining relationships with clients and other industry leaders within your domain
• Coaching client engineering teams, transferring knowledge and leveling up practices
• Influencing client CTOs and executive decisions. Planning and execute technical work that involves stakeholders outside of project boundaries such as across a client's technical organization
• Participating in account planning; opportunity identification.
• Facilitating retrospectives, strategy sessions, and technical deep-dives to improve team and project outcomes
• Identifying, mitigating, and resolving blockers to team progress
• Contributing to 8th Light by serving as a mentor, leading or designing workshops internally or for clients, representing 8th Light in the tech community, or supporting our hiring processes
• Demonstrating leadership in scalable system design, modular architecture, and platform- or product-oriented development.
• Bringing depth in testing strategies, observability, fault tolerance, and secure engineering practices.
• Applying architectural patterns to evaluate tradeoffs and drive clear, documented design rationale.

Principal Software Engineer – London

• Making immediate contributions to projects, rapidly building trust with your clients and team
• Working pragmatically to balance technology choices while delivering high-quality work within deadlines
• Contributing to architecture and software design discussions
• Collaborating on systems that involve the full ML lifecycle from data ingestion and preprocessing, to model deployment, integration, and performance monitoring
• Generating new potential solutions to challenges (technical and non-technical) in partnership with team members and clients
• Contributing to formal feedback conversations with teams and clients via retrospectives
• Clearly articulating and documenting outcomes and driving forward action items
• Regular syncs with your delivery team to provide status updates, and for identifying and evaluating risks and presenting potential solutions
• Identifying, mitigating, and resolving blockers to team progress
• Pursuing opportunities to further your skills to grow your career and keep pace with the rapid changes within the technology industry
• Contributing to your team culture by building connections with your fellow 8th Lights, showing up on camera, and leveraging collaboration opportunities, such as coworking spaces and local team gatherings, where appropriate.

Lead Software Engineer

Principal Software Engineer

Principal Software Engineer

Principal Software Engineer – London

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