Lead Software Engineer

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $126.3k - $184.1k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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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

• Lead software development engagements for a variety of clients, typically one to two clients per year • Make immediate project contributions and rapidly build client trust • Balance technology choices pragmatically while delivering high-quality work within deadlines • Lead architecture and software design discussions • Collaborate on systems spanning the full ML lifecycle, from data ingestion and preprocessing through deployment, integration, and performance monitoring • Generate technical and non-technical solutions with team members and clients • Lead or initiate formal feedback conversations through retrospectives • Document outcomes and drive action items • Model 8th Light’s Values and contribute to team and company culture • Ensure the team has a healthy, prioritized, estimated backlog • Manage high-level project roadmaps for large engagements • Maintain relationships with client technical leaders • Conduct client syncs for status updates, risk identification, evaluation, and solution presentation • Identify, mitigate, and resolve blockers to team progress • Mentor, lead or design workshops, represent 8th Light in the tech community, and support hiring processes

🎯 Requirements

• Typically 7+ years of repeated success across a variety of projects • Experience leading high-stakes consulting engagements from discovery to production • 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 into products or systems • Experience with 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 • Experience bringing together cross-functional perspectives and facilitating collaboration • Ability to make recommendations and set direction amid ambiguity • Experience mentoring and sharing knowledge • Ability to give and receive feedback effectively • Empathic communication with stakeholders and colleagues • Ability to balance technical considerations with product and user needs • Strongly preferred: platform engineering, data engineering including Databricks, production agentic systems including RAG pipelines and vector search, DevSecOps/DevOps, MLOps, and Infrastructure as Code

🏖️ Benefits

• Robust L&D program with 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 the global team • Flexible PTO • 12 weeks of new parent leave available for eligible employees • Coworking spaces for team members outside hub cities