πWorldwide
Principal Software Engineer
closed
8th Light
π΅ $151k-$220k
πRemote - 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 youβve 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 Lightβs 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
This job is filled or no longer available
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