Principal Software Engineer

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8th Light

πŸ’΅ $151k-$220k
πŸ“Remote - United States

Summary

Join 8th Light as a Principal Software Engineer and make immediate contributions to challenging projects, working remotely across various technologies and frameworks. Lead complex projects, mentor colleagues, and collaborate with clients to deliver high-quality software solutions. Leverage your extensive experience (10+ years) in software development, including AI/ML integration and architecture design. Lead architecture and software design discussions, collaborate on ML lifecycle systems, and generate innovative solutions. Contribute to a positive team culture and actively participate in client communication and relationship management.

Requirements

  • Successfully led high-stakes consulting engagements from discovery to production
  • Built high-quality, maintainable software collaboratively, incrementally, and through an approach tailored towards the unique needs of the clients you’ve served
  • Written production-quality code in the following languages: Python, Java, Javascript, and React
  • Leveraged AI-assistive development tools for tasks like scaffolding, refactoring, debugging, test generation, and documentation
  • Experience building or integrating AI/ML-powered features into products or systems (e.g., recommendation engines, NLP models, computer vision, predictive analytics)
  • Used context-appropriate automated testing to inform software design choices and catch bugs
  • Debugged and refactored pre-existing code to incrementally improve it
  • Collaborated with teams using Git, MacOS/Linux, and CI/CD
  • Remedied architecture-level concerns such as scalability, security, reliability, and performance
  • Brought together people from different functions and perspectives in forums that encourage idea sharing, collaboration, and problem solving
  • Made thoughtful recommendations and set direction in the face of ambiguity
  • Mentored and shared knowledge with colleagues
  • Actively sought out and effectively given feedback
  • Communicated empathically with stakeholders and colleagues
  • Collaboratively led stakeholders to balance technical considerations with product and user needs

Responsibilities

  • Making immediate contributions to projects, rapidly building trust with clients
  • Working pragmatically to balance technology choices while delivering high-quality work within deadlines
  • Leading architecture and software design discussions
  • Collaborating on systems that involve the full ML lifecycle from data ingestion and preprocessing, to model deployment, integration, and performance monitoring
  • Generating new potential solutions to challenges (technical and non-technical) in partnership with team members and clients
  • Leading or initiating formal feedback conversations with teams and clients via retrospectives
  • Clearly articulating and documenting outcomes and driving forward action items
  • Contributing to the health of your team and 8th Light’s culture by modeling our Values
  • Ensuring your team has a healthy, prioritized, estimated backlog
  • Managing high-level project roadmaps as the team lead for large engagements
  • Maintaining relationships with client technical leaders
  • Regular syncs with the client to provide status updates, and for identifying and evaluating risks and presenting potential solutions
  • Identifying, mitigating, and resolving blockers to team progress
  • Contributing to 8th Light by serving as a mentor, leading or designing workshops internally or for clients, representing 8th Light in the tech community, or supporting our hiring processes

Preferred Qualifications

  • DevSecOps & DevOps
  • MLOps
  • Infrastructure as Code
  • Data Engineering

Benefits

  • A robust L&D program with a learning budget and in-person learning opportunities
  • Coworking support for our global team
  • Flexible PTO
  • Wellness days
  • 12 weeks of new parent leave available for eligible employees
  • Transparent semi-annual promotion panel
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