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8th Light

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2006

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

Consulting • Marketing • Software

8th Light is a software design and development company that specializes in creating tailored software solutions and AI applications for businesses. They emphasize collaboration with clients to align software strategies with business goals, ensuring the successful launch of products and services. In addition to custom software development, 8th Light provides consulting and support for scaling enterprise systems and integrating advanced AI technologies to address complex challenges.

📋 Description

• Make immediate contributions to projects and rapidly build trust with clients • Work pragmatically to balance technology choices while delivering high-quality work within deadlines • Lead architecture and software design discussions • Collaborate on systems covering the full ML lifecycle from data ingestion and preprocessing through model deployment, integration, and performance monitoring • Generate potential 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 forward • Contribute to team health and 8th Light’s culture by modeling company Values • Ensure the team has a healthy, prioritized, estimated backlog • Manage high-level project roadmaps for large engagements • Maintain relationships with client technical leaders • Conduct regular client syncs, provide status updates, identify and evaluate risks, and present potential solutions • Identify, mitigate, and resolve blockers to team progress • Mentor colleagues, lead or design workshops, represent 8th Light in the tech community, or support hiring processes

🎯 Requirements

• Typically 7+ years of repeated success across a variety of projects • Successfully led high-stakes consulting engagements from discovery to production • Broad and deep software development expertise enabling immediate project impact • Production-quality coding experience with languages and frameworks including Java, C#/.NET, Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, React, Go, Ruby, Scala, R, and SQL • Experience leveraging AI-assistive development tools for scaffolding, refactoring, debugging, test generation, and documentation • Experience building or integrating AI/ML-powered features such as recommendation engines, NLP models, computer vision, or predictive analytics • Experience with context-appropriate automated testing • Experience debugging and refactoring pre-existing code • Experience collaborating with Git, MacOS/Linux, and CI/CD • Experience addressing scalability, security, reliability, and performance concerns at the architecture level • Ability to bring together people from different functions and perspectives for collaboration and problem solving • Ability to make thoughtful recommendations and set direction amid ambiguity • Mentoring and knowledge-sharing experience • Ability to give and receive feedback effectively • Empathic communication with stakeholders and colleagues • Ability to balance technical considerations with product and user needs collaboratively • Strongly preferred: platform engineering, data engineering including Databricks, production agentic systems with RAG pipelines/vector search and frameworks such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, CrewAI, AutoGen, or n8n, DevSecOps/DevOps, MLOps, and Infrastructure as Code

🏖️ Benefits

• 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