Senior Software Engineer - [Chicago Only] Who We Are At 8th Light, we bring life to the best ideas. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Chicago, we are a technology solutions provider that partners with organizations to solve meaningful challenges and drive sustainable growth. From early-stage startups to global enterprises, we work across industries to optimize our clients’ digital products through product strategy innovation, experiential design, AI solutions, and deep engineering expertise. 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 and collaborative culture grounded in honesty that builds trust, and believe true success is measured by the outcomes we create for our clients. If this kind of work and our kind of people energizes you, you’ve found the right place. Who You Are You’ve shown repeated success on a variety of projects, typically over the course of 4+ years. You have a broad range of expertise that allows you to make an immediate impact on projects. In your previous experience, you have: - Successfully contributed to high-stakes consulting engagements from discovery to production - Written production-quality code using a variety of languages and frameworks, that include: Python, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Ruby, Scala, R, SQL, and Go - Built high-quality, maintainable software collaboratively, incrementally, and through an approach tailored towards the unique needs of the clients you’ve served - Leveraged AI-assistive development tools for tasks like scaffolding, refactoring, debugging, test generation, and documentation, where appropriate - 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 - Contributed to 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 - Influenced stakeholders to balance technical considerations with product and user needs What You’ll Do At 8th Light As a senior 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 work with colleagues who share your passion for technology solutions. You’ll invest time developing your skills and sharing what you know. You’ll be responsible for: - Making immediate contributions to projects, rapidly building trust with your clients and team - Working pragmatically to balance technology choices while delivering high-quality work within deadlines - Contributing to 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 - Contributing to formal feedback conversations with teams and clients via retrospectives - Clearly articulating and documenting outcomes and driving forward action items - Regular syncs with your delivery team to provide status updates, and for identifying and evaluating risks and presenting potential solutions - Identifying, mitigating, and resolving blockers to team progress - Pursuing opportunities to further your skills to grow your career and keep pace with the rapid changes within the technology industry - Contributing to your team culture by building connections with your fellow 8th Lights, showing up on camera, and leveraging collaboration opportunities, such as coworking spaces and local team gatherings, where appropriate - Confidently predicting the next World Series Win for the Chicago White Sox. Strongly Preferred Skills We work across many areas, and encourage anyone with the experience listed above to apply. We would particularly like to encourage applicants with experience in the following areas: - MLOps: including tools like LangChain for application development and managing the ML lifecycle - Data Engineering: including platforms like Databricks for data processing and analytics - DevSecOps & DevOps - Infrastructure as Code Building a truly diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace is an ongoing journey, and we’re excited to keep learning and growing together. We have a proud tradition of hiring talented colleagues with real-world career experiences. How You’ll be Supported At 8th Light, we believe our people are our greatest asset. Their growth, well-being, and success shape our future. Our wellness package is designed with the Whole YOU in mind and includes: - A robust L&D program featuring unlimited access to thousands of books, courses, and expert-led training on the O'Reilly learning platform - Coworking support for our global team - Flexible PTO - 12 weeks of new parent leave available for eligible employees - Transparent semi-annual promotion panel See our full list of Benefits. A Note on Compensation At 8th Light, we are committed to a compensation philosophy that is transparent, fair, and helps us attract and retain top talent in alignment with our company’s strategic growth goals and clients’ needs. We benchmark our salaries using Geographic Structures to establish competitive pay ranges within the regions where 8th Lights live. Our pay ranges for our Senior Engineer position within Chicago, Illinois is: $104,160-$130,200 USD. Reach out to recruiting@8thlight.com for more relevant information pertaining to your local market. 8th Light Hubs and Geographies As a remote-first company, 8th Light's culture is rooted in strong connections that extend across our teams, regions, and beyond client work. We are a distributed team across the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, with hubs in Chicago, London, Los Angeles, New York, and Seattle. If you are hired into a hub, you will be a part of a team with regular rituals around co-working and community building. For team members outside of those cities, we offer access to coworking spaces to foster continued collaboration and connection across our global team. In most cases, our consulting engagements do not require travel. We hope to see you apply! #LI-Remote

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Ready to be pushed beyond what you think you’re capable of? At Coinbase, our mission is to increase economic freedom in the world. It’s a massive, ambitious opportunity that demands the best of us, every day, as we build the emerging onchain platform — and with it, the future global financial system. To achieve our mission, we’re seeking a very specific candidate. We want someone who is passionate about our mission and who believes in the power of crypto and blockchain technology to update the financial system. We want someone who is eager to leave their mark on the world, who relishes the pressure and privilege of working with high caliber colleagues, and who actively seeks feedback to keep leveling up. We want someone who will run towards, not away from, solving the company’s hardest problems. Our work culture is intense and isn’t for everyone. But if you want to build the future alongside others who excel in their disciplines and expect the same from you, there’s no better place to be. While many roles at Coinbase are remote-first, we are not remote-only. In-person participation is required throughout the year. Team and company-wide offsites are held multiple times annually to foster collaboration, connection, and alignment. Attendance is expected and fully supported. The gap between "each service works" and "the system is correct" compounds with every product Coinbase ships, every market it enters, every settlement mechanism it builds. Overseer is the platform that closes it — making cross-service financial correctness a designed property of the infrastructure, not a coordination problem between teams. At staff-level, you’ll define what that platform becomes. What you’ll be doing (ie. job duties): - Define and drive the architecture of the correctness layer across Coinbase’s fund flows — from real-time invariant enforcement to AI-powered guardrails. - Own the core platform: the invariant definition framework, real-time detection engine, and the APIs and tooling that partner teams use to onboard and monitor their fund flows. - Lead the AI guardrails workstream: predictive consistency models that catch deviations before settlement, and proactive invariant discovery so coverage keeps pace with AI-accelerated development. The same AI that speeds up shipping should speed up the correctness layer around it. - Set technical direction for the team, make high-stakes architecture decisions, and raise the engineering bar. - Partner cross-functionally with Transfer Service, Ledger, Payments, Risk, and Compliance to define correctness requirements and drive adoption. - Mentor engineers and translate platform vision into executable roadmap. What we look for in you (ie. job requirements): - 8+ years of software engineering experience. - You’ve built fault-tolerant, high-reliability distributed systems at scale. - Platform-builder mindset — you build infrastructure other teams depend on, not features for a single product. - Experience leading cross-functional technical work with significant company-wide impact. - Strong judgment on where to invest: you can distinguish the load-bearing correctness problem from the interesting-but-optional one. - Demonstrates the ability to responsibly use generative AI tools and copilots (e.g., LibreChat, Gemini, Glean) in daily workflows, continuously learn as tools evolve, and apply human‑in‑the‑loop practices to deliver business‑ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in efficiency, cost, and quality. Nice to haves: - Experience with financial systems, reconciliation, or ledgering at scale. - Streaming data infrastructure (Kafka, Flink, or similar). - You’ve worked with Golang, Ruby, Docker, Postgres, MongoDB or DynamoDB. - AI applied to predictive consistency or proactive gap discovery in financial or distributed systems. - Crypto-forward experience, including familiarity with onchain activity such as interacting with Ethereum addresses, using ENS, and engaging with dApps or blockchain-based services. - You have gone through a rapid growth in your company (from 10 to 100s of engineers) Job #: P76375 Pay Transparency Notice: Depending on your work location, the target annual base salary for this position can range as detailed below. Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility and benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k)). Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus): $218,025—$256,500 USD Please be advised that each candidate may submit a maximum of four applications within any 30-day period. We encourage you to carefully evaluate how your skills and interests align with Coinbase's roles before applying. Commitment to Equal OpportunityCoinbase is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation or any other basis protected by applicable law. Coinbase will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. For US applicants, you may view the Employee Rights and the Know Your Rights notices by clicking on their corresponding links. Additionally, Coinbase participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations, as required by law. Coinbase is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please contact us at accommodations[at]coinbase.com to let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. For quick access to screen reading technology compatible with this site click here to download a free compatible screen reader (free step by step tutorial can be found here). Global Data Privacy Notice for Job Candidates and ApplicantsDepending on your location, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) may regulate the way we manage the data of job applicants. Our full notice outlining how data will be processed as part of the application procedure for applicable locations is available here. By submitting your application, you are agreeing to our use and processing of your data as required. For US applicants only, by submitting your application you are agreeing to arbitration of disputes as outlined here. AI DisclosureFor select roles, Coinbase is piloting an AI tool based on machine learning technologies to conduct initial screening interviews to qualified applicants. The tool simulates realistic interview scenarios and engages in dynamic conversation. A human recruiter will review your interview responses, provided in the form of a voice recording and/or transcript, to assess them against the qualifications and characteristics outlined in the job description. For select roles, Coinbase is also piloting an AI interview intelligence platform to transcribe and summarize interview notes, allowing our interviewers to fully focus on you as the candidate. The above pilots are for testing purposes and Coinbase will not use AI to make decisions impacting employment. To request a reasonable accommodation due to disability, please contact accommodations[at]coinbase.com