8th Light

Full-stack Engineer

• Work with a variety of clients, typically one to two in a year
• Build trust with clients and demonstrate technical expertise and domain understanding
• Drive platform engineering work and connect long-term technical vision to delivered outcomes
• Lead platform strategy and delivery across diverse platform types
• Balance technology choices while delivering high-quality work within deadlines
• Advise clients on architecture, scalability, and platform evolution
• Collaborate on systems spanning the full ML lifecycle, from data ingestion and preprocessing through deployment, integration, and performance monitoring
• Drive innovation by surfacing technical approaches and product solutions
• Lead or initiate formal feedback conversations through retrospectives
• Document outcomes and drive action items
• Design and manage high-level technical roadmaps for large engagements
• Build networks and maintain relationships with clients and industry leaders
• Coach client engineering teams and transfer knowledge
• Influence client CTOs and executive decisions
• Partner with account teams on planning, opportunity identification, stakeholder relationships, and pre-sales scope shaping
• Facilitate retrospectives, strategy sessions, and technical deep-dives
• Identify, mitigate, and resolve blockers
• Mentor, lead or design workshops, represent 8th Light in the tech community, and support hiring processes
• Demonstrate leadership in scalable system design, modular architecture, and platform- or product-oriented development
• Apply testing strategies, observability, fault tolerance, secure engineering practices, and architectural patterns

Principal Software Engineer

• Build trust with clients by demonstrating technical expertise and understanding their domains and objectives
• Drive platform engineering work at the client level
• Lead platform strategy and delivery across diverse platform types
• Balance technology choices while delivering high-quality work within deadlines
• Advise clients on architecture, scalability, and platform evolution
• Collaborate across the full ML lifecycle, from data ingestion and preprocessing through model deployment, integration, and performance monitoring
• Surface new technical approaches and product solutions
• Lead or initiate feedback conversations through retrospectives
• Document outcomes and drive action items
• Design and manage high-level technical roadmaps for large engagements
• Build client and industry-leader relationships
• Coach client engineering teams and transfer knowledge
• Influence client CTOs and executive decisions
• Partner with account teams on planning, opportunity identification, stakeholder relationships, and pre-sales scope shaping
• Facilitate retrospectives, strategy sessions, and technical deep-dives
• Identify, mitigate, and resolve blockers
• Mentor, lead or design workshops, represent 8th Light in the tech community, and support hiring processes
• Demonstrate leadership in scalable system design, modular architecture, and platform- or product-oriented development
• Apply testing strategies, observability, fault tolerance, secure engineering practices, and architectural patterns

• Lead software development engagements for a variety of clients across technologies and frameworks
• Make immediate contributions and build trust with clients
• Balance technology choices while delivering high-quality work within deadlines
• Lead architecture and software design discussions
• Collaborate across the full ML lifecycle, from data ingestion and preprocessing through model deployment, integration, and performance monitoring
• Generate technical and non-technical solutions with team members and clients
• Lead feedback conversations and retrospectives
• Document outcomes and drive action items
• Ensure teams maintain healthy, prioritized, estimated backlogs
• Manage high-level project roadmaps for large engagements
• Maintain relationships with client technical leaders
• Provide regular client status updates, identify and evaluate risks, and present solutions
• Identify, mitigate, and resolve blockers
• Mentor colleagues, lead or design workshops, represent 8th Light in the tech community, and support hiring processes
• Contribute to team health and 8th Light’s culture

Lead Software Engineer

• Serve as a lead technologist on projects for a variety of clients
• Lead complicated projects and project teams across technologies and frameworks
• Make immediate contributions and rapidly build trust with clients
• Balance technology choices pragmatically while delivering high-quality work within deadlines
• Lead architecture and software design discussions
• Collaborate on systems spanning the full ML lifecycle, from data ingestion and preprocessing through deployment, integration, and performance monitoring
• Generate technical and non-technical solutions with team members and clients
• Lead or initiate formal feedback conversations through retrospectives
• Articulate and document outcomes and drive action items
• Model 8th Light’s Values and contribute to team and company culture
• Ensure teams have healthy, prioritized, estimated backlogs
• Manage high-level project roadmaps for large engagements
• Maintain relationships with client technical leaders
• Conduct client syncs, provide status updates, identify and evaluate risks, and present solutions
• Identify, mitigate, and resolve blockers to team progress
• Mentor, lead or design internal/client workshops, represent 8th Light in the tech community, or support hiring processes