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8th Light

We believe software is a craft born out of practice.

Principal Software Engineer

Full-stack EngineerSoftware EngineerFull TimeRemoteLeadTeam 51-200Since 2006H1B No SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

Illinois

Posted

113 days ago

Salary

$151.5K - $220.9K / year

Seniority

Lead

Job Description

Principal Software Engineer

8th Light

• Rapidly building trust with clients, demonstrating technical expertise and understanding of their domain and objectives • Guiding technical direction, solving complex problems, and demonstrating best practices while remaining deeply engaged within the codebase • Working pragmatically to balance technology choices while delivering high-quality work within deadlines • Advising clients on architecture, scalability and platform evolution, connecting technical decisions to product and business outcomes • Collaborating on systems that involve the full ML lifecycle from data ingestion and preprocessing, to model deployment, integration, and performance monitoring • Driving innovation by proactively surfacing new technical approaches and product solutions • 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 • Designing and managing high-level technical roadmaps for large engagements • Building your network and maintaining relationships with clients and other industry leaders within your domain • Coaching client engineering teams, transferring knowledge and leveling up practices • Influencing client CTOs and executive decisions. Planning and execute technical work that involves stakeholders outside of project boundaries such as across a client's technical organization • Participating in account planning; opportunity identification. • Facilitating retrospectives, strategy sessions, and technical deep-dives to improve team and project outcomes • 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 • Demonstrating leadership in scalable system design, modular architecture, and platform- or product-oriented development. • Bringing depth in testing strategies, observability, fault tolerance, and secure engineering practices. • Applying architectural patterns to evaluate tradeoffs and drive clear, documented design rationale.

Job Requirements

  • Demonstrated long-term success on high-stakes consulting engagements across multiple language paradigms, stacks, ecosystems, technical environments, and client industries
  • Built high-quality, maintainable software collaboratively, incrementally, and through an approach tailored towards the unique needs of the clients you’ve served
  • Led the development and delivery of production-grade software using a variety of languages and frameworks, including but not limited to: Python, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Ruby, Scala, R, SQL, and Go
  • Evaluated and strategically applied AI-assistive development tools to accelerate delivery and improve quality
  • A track record of understanding, assessing, and embracing new tooling and trends within the software industry
  • 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
  • Successfully led modernization efforts to align legacy systems with short and long-term business needs
  • Remedied architecture-level concerns such as scalability, security, reliability, and performance
  • Facilitated alignment and collaboration across technical and non-technical stakeholders to move initiatives forward in the face of ambiguity and complexity while balancing technical considerations with product and user needs
  • Provided mentorship and team support at scale, while sharing knowledge and improving team practices
  • Actively sought out and effectively given feedback
  • Collaboratively led stakeholders to balance technical considerations with product and user needs

Benefits

  • A robust L&D program featuring unlimited access to thousands of books, courses, and expert-led training on the O'Reilly learning platform.
  • Annual financial stipend and time allotment for learning & development
  • Coworking support for our global team
  • Flexible PTO
  • 12 weeks of new parent leave available for eligible employees

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