8th Light is seeking a lead technologist to help organizations solve meaningful challenges and drive sustainable growth through product strategy innovation, experiential design, AI solutions, and deep engineering expertise.
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 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
- Remedied architecture-level concerns such as scalability, security, reliability, and performance
Responsibilities
- Making immediate contributions to projects, rapidly building trust with clients
- 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
- Managing high-level project roadmaps as the team lead for large engagements
- Maintaining relationships with client technical leaders
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
- You have experience bringing together people from different functions and perspectives in forums that encourage idea sharing, collaboration, and problem solving
- You have made thoughtful recommendations and set direction in the face of ambiguity
