10 hours ago
London, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead complex software consulting engagements from discovery through production and build client trust quickly.
- Lead architecture, software design discussions, technical direction, and pragmatic technology decisions.
- Collaborate on systems covering the full ML lifecycle, from data ingestion and preprocessing through deployment, integration, and performance monitoring.
- Lead teams, maintain healthy prioritized backlogs, manage high-level project roadmaps, and resolve blockers.
- Maintain relationships with client technical leaders, provide status updates, identify risks, and present solutions.
- Facilitate retrospectives and feedback conversations, document outcomes, and drive action items.
- Mentor colleagues, lead workshops, represent the company in the technology community, and support hiring processes.
Requirements
- Typically 7+ years of successful experience across a variety of software projects and consulting engagements.
- Experience leading high-stakes software engagements and making technical recommendations in ambiguous situations.
- Production software development experience with a variety of languages and frameworks, including Java, C#/.NET, Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, React, Go, Ruby, Scala, R, and SQL.
- Experience building or integrating AI/ML-powered features such as recommendation engines, NLP models, computer vision, or predictive analytics.
- Experience with automated testing, debugging, refactoring, architecture, scalability, security, reliability, and performance.
- Experience collaborating with Git and MacOS/Linux environments.
- Experience mentoring colleagues, communicating with stakeholders, and balancing technical decisions with product and user needs.
- Preferred experience includes platform engineering, Databricks, production agentic systems, RAG pipelines, vector search, LangChain, LlamaIndex, CrewAI, AutoGen, n8n, DevSecOps, DevOps, MLOps, and infrastructure as code.
Benefits
- Hybrid work in Waterloo, London, with a minimum of one day per week in the office.
- Unlimited access to books, courses, and expert-led training through the O'Reilly learning platform.
- Annual financial stipend and dedicated time for learning and development.
- Coworking support for the global team.
- 12 weeks of new parent leave for eligible employees.
- Consulting engagements generally do not require travel.
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About 8th Light
8th Light is an employee-owned software consultancy that provides product strategy, design, and engineering, with a focus on AI-enabled systems and platform modernization. It partners with enterprises in finance, education, retail, real estate, healthcare, and consumer markets through project-based engagements and embedded teams. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Chicago, it is privately held with additional offices in London, Los Angeles, New York, and Austin.