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 across technologies and frameworks • Make immediate contributions and build trust with clients • Balance technology choices while delivering high-quality work within deadlines • Lead architecture and software design discussions • Collaborate across the full ML lifecycle, from data ingestion and preprocessing through model deployment, integration, and performance monitoring • Generate technical and non-technical solutions with team members and clients • Lead feedback conversations and retrospectives • Document outcomes and drive action items • Ensure teams maintain healthy, prioritized, estimated backlogs • Manage high-level project roadmaps for large engagements • Maintain relationships with client technical leaders • Provide regular client status updates, identify and evaluate risks, and present solutions • Identify, mitigate, and resolve blockers • Mentor colleagues, lead or design workshops, represent 8th Light in the tech community, and support hiring processes • Contribute to team health and 8th Light’s culture

🎯 Requirements

• Typically 7+ years of experience with long-term repeated success across a variety of projects • Experience leading high-stakes consulting engagements from discovery to production • Experience building high-quality, maintainable software collaboratively and incrementally • 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 • 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 leading cross-functional collaboration and making recommendations amid ambiguity • Experience mentoring and sharing knowledge • Experience balancing technical considerations with product and user needs • Strongly preferred: MLOps, LangChain, Data Engineering, Databricks, DevSecOps, DevOps, 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 for eligible employees • Access to coworking spaces for team members outside hub cities • Remote-first work arrangement • In most cases, consulting engagements do not require travel