Who You AreYou've shown long-term repeated success on a variety of projects, typically over the course of 7+ years. You can be the go-to leader for any software development engagement. You have a broad and deep range of expertise that allows you to make an immediate impact on projects. In your previous experience, you have:
- Successfully led high-stakes consulting engagements from discovery to production
- Built high-quality, maintainable software collaboratively, incrementally, and through an approach tailored towards the unique needs of the clients you've served
- Written production-quality code using a variety of languages and frameworks, including but not limited to: Java, C#/.NET, Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, React, Go, Ruby, Scala, R, and SQL
- Leveraged AI-assistive development tools for tasks like scaffolding, refactoring, debugging, test generation, and documentation
- 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
- Debugged and refactored pre-existing code to incrementally improve it
- Collaborated with teams using Git, MacOS/Linux, and CI/CD
- Remedied architecture-level concerns such as scalability, security, reliability, and performance
- Brought together people from different functions and perspectives in forums that encourage idea sharing, collaboration, and problem solving
- Made thoughtful recommendations and set direction in the face of ambiguity
- Mentored and shared knowledge with colleagues
- Actively sought out and effectively given feedback
- Communicated empathically with stakeholders and colleagues
- Collaboratively led stakeholders to balance technical considerations with product and user needs
What You'll Do At 8th LightAs 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. You'll be responsible for:
- 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
Strongly Preferred SkillsWe work across many areas, and encourage anyone with the experience listed above to apply. We would particularly like to encourage applicants with experience in the following areas:
- MLOps: including tools like LangChain for application development and managing the ML lifecycle
- Data Engineering: including platforms like Databricks for data processing and analytics
- DevSecOps & DevOps
- Infrastructure as Code
- Data Engineering: including platforms like Databricks for data processing and analytics
How You'll be SupportedAt 8th Light, we believe our people are our greatest asset. Their growth, well-being, and success shape our future.
Our wellness package is designed with the Whole YOU in mind and includes:
- 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
See our full list of Benefits.
A Note on CompensationAt 8th Light, we are committed to a compensation philosophy that is transparent, fair, and helps us attract and retain top talent in alignment with our company's strategic growth goals and clients' needs.
We benchmark our salaries using Geographic Structures to establish competitive pay ranges within the regions where 8th Lights live. Our pay ranges for our Lead Engineer position within our four US structures are as follows:
- Structure 1 (Tampa Metro, Ohio, Tennessee, Wisconsin)
RANGE: $126,279-$157,849 USD - Structure 2 (Chicago Metro, Miami Metro, Philadelphia Metro, Raleigh Metro )
RANGE: $132,700-$165,875 USD - Structure 3 (Austin Metro, Boston Metro , DC Metro)
RANGE: $141,261-$176,576 USD - Structure 4 (Los Angeles, Seattle, New York City)
RANGE: $147,254-$184,068 USD
8th Light Hubs and GeographiesAs a remote-first company, 8th Light's culture is rooted in strong connections that extend across our teams, regions, and beyond client work. We are a distributed team across the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, with hubs in Chicago, London, Los Angeles, New York, and Seattle.
If you are hired into a hub, you will be a part of a team with regular rituals around co-working and community building. For team members outside of those cities, we offer access to coworking spaces to foster continued collaboration and connection across our global team.
In most cases, our consulting engagements do not require travel.
We hope to see you apply!
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