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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

• Build trust with clients and demonstrate technical expertise and understanding of their domain and objectives • Drive platform engineering work at the client level, connecting long-term technical vision to shipped work • Lead platform strategy and delivery across diverse platform types • Balance technology choices pragmatically while delivering high-quality work within deadlines • Advise clients on architecture, scalability, and platform evolution • Collaborate on systems spanning the full ML lifecycle, from data ingestion and preprocessing through deployment, integration, and performance monitoring • Surface new technical approaches and product solutions • Lead or initiate formal feedback conversations through retrospectives • Articulate and document outcomes and drive action items • Design and manage high-level technical roadmaps for large engagements • Build and maintain relationships with clients and industry leaders • Coach client engineering teams and transfer knowledge • Influence client CTOs and executive decisions • Partner with account teams on planning, opportunity identification, stakeholder relationships, and pre-sales scope shaping • Facilitate retrospectives, strategy sessions, and technical deep-dives • Identify, mitigate, and resolve blockers • Mentor, lead or design workshops, represent 8th Light in the tech community, and support hiring processes • Demonstrate leadership in scalable system design, modular architecture, and platform- or product-oriented development • Apply testing, observability, fault-tolerance, secure-engineering, and architectural practices

🎯 Requirements

• Typically 10+ years of long-term, repeated success across a variety of projects • Trusted expert and leader able to guide ambiguous initiatives and architect scalable solutions • Deep consulting acumen, technical expertise, and product thinking • Experience building and shipping production-grade platforms, reusable foundations, tools, infrastructure, and workflows • Experience taking AI and agentic systems from prototype to production, including infrastructure, authentication, and observability • Experience delivering high-stakes consulting engagements across multiple language paradigms, stacks, ecosystems, and client industries • Experience collaboratively and incrementally building high-quality, maintainable software • Experience leading production-grade software delivery using languages and frameworks including Java, C#/.NET, Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, React, Go, Ruby, Scala, R, and SQL • Experience experimenting with AI development tools and applying them to improve delivery • Ability to assess and adopt new software-industry tooling and trends • Experience building or integrating AI/ML features such as recommendation engines, NLP, computer vision, predictive analytics, RAG pipelines, and agents • Experience leading modernization and replatforming efforts • Experience solving architecture-level problems involving scalability, security, reliability, performance, maintainability, and observability • Ability to align technical and non-technical stakeholders through ambiguity and complexity • Experience providing mentorship and team support at scale • Strongly preferred: platform engineering, data engineering including Databricks, production agentic systems, RAG pipelines, vector search, LangChain, LlamaIndex, CrewAI, AutoGen, 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