8th Light is a technology solutions provider that partners with organizations to solve meaningful challenges and drive sustainable growth. They are looking for a Lead Software Engineer to lead high-stakes consulting engagements, build high-quality software, and contribute to client success.
Requirements
- 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: Python, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Ruby, Scala, R, SQL, and Go
- 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
Responsibilities
- 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
- Making immediate contributions to projects, rapidly building trust with clients
- Working pragmatically to balance technology choices while delivering high-quality work within deadlines
- Generating new potential solutions to challenges (technical and non-technical) in partnership with team members and clients
- Ensuring your team has a healthy, prioritized, estimated backlog
- Managing high-level project roadmaps as the team lead for large engagements
Other
- You’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.
- Mentored and shared knowledge with colleagues
- Actively sought out and effectively given feedback
