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.

Requirements

Demonstrated long-term success on high-stakes consulting engagements across multiple language paradigms, stacks, ecosystems, technical environments, and client industries
Built high-quality, maintainable software collaboratively, incrementally, and through an approach tailored towards the unique needs of the clients you’ve served
Led the development and delivery of production-grade software using a variety of languages and frameworks, including but not limited to: Python, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Ruby, Scala, R, SQL, and Go
Evaluated and strategically applied AI-assistive development tools to accelerate delivery and improve quality
A track record of understanding, assessing, and embracing new tooling and trends within the software industry
Experience building or integrating AI/ML-powered features into products or systems (e.g., recommendation engines, NLP models, computer vision, predictive analytics)
Used context-appropriate automated testing to inform software design choices and catch bugs
Successfully led modernization efforts to align legacy systems with short and long-term business needs
Remedied architecture-level concerns such as scalability, security, reliability, and performance
Facilitated alignment and collaboration across technical and non-technical stakeholders to move initiatives forward in the face of ambiguity and complexity while balancing technical considerations with product and user needs
Provided mentorship and team support at scale, while sharing knowledge and improving team practices
Actively sought out and effectively given feedback
Collaboratively led stakeholders to balance technical considerations with product and user needs

Benefits

A robust L&D program featuring unlimited access to thousands of books, courses, and expert-led training on the O'Reilly learning platform.
Annual financial stipend and time allotment for learning & development
Coworking support for our global team
Flexible PTO
12 weeks of new parent leave available for eligible employees

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools

PythonJavaJavaScriptTypeScriptReactRubyScalaRSQLGo

Soft Skills

leadershipcollaborationmentorshipcommunicationproblem-solvingfeedbackinnovationcoachingstrategic planningrelationship building