5 days ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+
Base Salary
$126k - $184k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead complex software consulting engagements from discovery through production and guide project teams.
- Lead architecture, software design, technology choices, and technical discussions.
- Collaborate on systems spanning data ingestion, preprocessing, model deployment, integration, and performance monitoring across the ML lifecycle.
- Manage high-level project roadmaps, maintain prioritized and estimated backlogs, and resolve blockers.
- Build client relationships, provide status updates, evaluate risks, and present potential solutions.
- Lead feedback conversations, retrospectives, workshops, mentoring, and knowledge-sharing activities.
- Contribute production-quality code, debug and refactor existing systems, and use automated testing to inform design decisions.
Requirements
- Typically 7+ years of repeated success across varied software development projects.
- Experience leading high-stakes consulting engagements and collaborating with clients and cross-functional teams.
- Production software development experience with multiple languages and frameworks, including Java, C#/.NET, Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, React, Go, Ruby, Rust, 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 software architecture, scalability, security, reliability, performance, automated testing, debugging, and refactoring.
- Experience collaborating with Git, MacOS/Linux, and CI/CD environments.
- Strong stakeholder communication, facilitation, mentoring, feedback, prioritization, and technical decision-making skills.
- Preferred experience with MLOps, LangChain, Databricks, DevSecOps, DevOps, and infrastructure as code.
Benefits
- Remote-first work arrangement across the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom; most consulting engagements do not require travel.
- Unlimited access to books, courses, and expert-led training through the O'Reilly learning platform.
- Annual financial stipend and time allotment for learning and development.
- Coworking support and access to coworking spaces for team members outside company hubs.
- Flexible paid time off.
- Twelve weeks of new parent leave for eligible employees.
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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.