8th Light is looking for a Lead Technologist to solve meaningful challenges and drive sustainable growth for their clients by optimizing digital products through product strategy innovation, experiential design, AI solutions, and deep engineering expertise.
Requirements
- Written production-quality code in the following languages: Python, Java, Javascript, and React
- 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
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
- Clearly articulating and documenting outcomes and driving forward action items
- Ensuring your team has a healthy, prioritized, estimated backlog
Other
- Successfully led high-stakes consulting engagements from discovery to production
- 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
