8th Light

8th Light

Lead Software Engineer (Remote)

United States

Sponsorship not specified$126k-$158kDetected 1 day ago
JavaScriptTypeScriptPythonJavaGoC#RubyScalaReact.NETGitSQLDatabricksCI/CDLinuxDevOpsPlatform EngineeringMachine LearningData EngineeringNLPComputer VisionRAGAgentic AIMLOps

About the role

  • We take on hard software challenges and turn them into durable results.
  • 8th Lights thrive in an environment that champions continuous education, fueling our growth through mentorship and hands-on work.
  • If this kind of work and our kind of people energizes you, you've found the right place.

Responsibilities

  • As a lead technologist on projects, you'll work with a variety of clients, typically one to two in a year, through a variety of technologies and frameworks over the course of your career with us.
  • You'll lead more complicated projects, leading teams to do so.
  • Making immediate contributions to projects, rapidly building trust with clients
  • Leading architecture and software design discussions
  • Managing high-level project roadmaps as the team lead for large engagements
  • Platform engineering: building reusable software foundations, internal developer platforms, and infrastructure that other teams build on
  • Used context-appropriate automated testing to inform software design choices and catch bugs

Requirements

  • 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.
  • In your previous experience, you have:

Nice to have

  • Strongly Preferred Skills

Compensation

  • Annual financial stipend and time allotment for learning & development

Benefits

  • Experience building or integrating AI/ML-powered features into products or systems (e.g., recommendation engines, NLP models, computer vision, predictive analytics)

Company info

  • At 8th Light, we bring life to the best ideas.
  • Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Chicago, we are a technology solutions consultancy that partners with organizations from early-stage startups to the world's largest companies. We take on hard software challenges and turn them into durable results. We build agentic products, the platforms they run on, and the engineering and design at every layer.
  • Our commitment to quality means we deliver solutions we're truly proud of, while our curiosity sparks innovation and breakthrough thinking. 8th Lights thrive in an environment that champions continuous education, fueling our growth through mentorship and hands-on work. We foster an open, collaborative culture grounded in honesty that builds trust, and believe true success is measured by the outcomes we create for our clients.
  • Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Chicago, we are a technology solutions consultancy that partners with organizations from early-stage startups to the world's largest companies.
  • We build agentic products, the platforms they run on, and the engineering and design at every layer.
  • Our commitment to quality means we deliver solutions we're truly proud of, while our curiosity sparks innovation and breakthrough thinking.
  • We foster an open, collaborative culture grounded in honesty that builds trust, and believe true success is measured by the outcomes we create for our clients.
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