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, 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 long-term repeated success on a variety of projects, typically over the course of 10+ years. You are a trusted expert and leader, often called upon to guide ambiguous initiatives and architect scalable solutions. You bring a blend of deep consulting acumen, technical expertise, and product thinking that drives measurable and impactful outcomes. In your previous experience, you have: - 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 What You’ll Do At 8th Light As a go-to technologist and strategist within 8th Light, you’ll work with a variety of clients, typically one to two in a year, while continuing to deepen your and our collective domain expertise over the course of your career with us. You’ll be responsible for: - 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. 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: - Delivering and advising on enterprise-grade AI systems, including RAG pipelines, vector search, and agentic frameworks (e.g., LangChain, LlamaIndex, Crew AI, AutoGen, n8n), ensuring scalable, production-ready solutions that empower developers and align with business outcomes. - DevSecOps & DevOps - MLOps - Infrastructure as Code - Data Engineering: including platforms like Databricks for data processing and analytics. 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. - 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 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 Principal Engineer position within our four US structures are as follows: - Structure 1 (Tampa Metro, Ohio, Tennessee, Wisconsin) - RANGE: $151,535-$189,418 USD - Structure 2 (Chicago Metro, Miami Metro, Philadelphia Metro, Raleigh Metro ) - RANGE: $159,240-$199,050 USD - Structure 3 (Austin Metro, Boston Metro , DC Metro) - RANGE: $169,513-$211,892 USD - Structure 4 (Los Angeles, Seattle, New York City) - RANGE: $176,705- $220,881 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

Company Description Miratech helps visionaries change the world. We are a global IT services and consulting company that brings together enterprise and start-up innovation. Today, we support digital transformation for some of the world's largest enterprises. By partnering with both large and small players, we stay at the leading edge of technology, remain nimble even as a global leader, and create technology that helps our clients further enhance their business. We are a values-driven organization and our culture of Relentless Performance has enabled over 99% of Miratech's engagements to succeed by meeting or exceeding our scope, schedule, and/or budget objectives since our inception in 1989. Miratech has coverage across 5 continents and operates in over 25 countries around the world. Miratech retains nearly 1000 full-time professionals, and our annual growth rate exceeds 25%. Job Description We are looking to hire a Senior Full Stack Developer who will take part in development and maintenance services for customized software solutions for large European customer, a provider of innovative software solutions for the public sector. The client is a technology service provider specializing in digital solutions for public sector organizations. The company focuses on developing secure, scalable platforms that support administrative processes, data management, and digital transformation initiatives. The project includes software application development in the tax administration domain. The system under development is the tax administration system that covers taxation processes in one of the European countries. This is the complex system that covers the full life-cycle of tax declarations processing and tax calculations and assessments that included integration with multiple external systems. The project team consist of 20+ people. Responsibilities: - Implement software components according to the design specifications - Perform system integration and testing, problem troubleshooting, and resolution - Perform unit testing of software components - Participate in estimating project efforts and delivery timelines - Proactively collaborate with teammates and communicate with the Project Stakeholders to ensure that the Project efforts proceed efficiently and with predictability - Provide technical input into product roadmaps - Participate in triage activities (incident analysis and prioritization) - Support and optimize CI/CD processes Project Tech Stack Backend (Java): Spring, Quarkus. Frontend: Angular (latest versions) Data & Integration: PostgreSQL,RESTEasy, Hibernate / Panache, Kafka Architecture, DevOps & Tools: Microservices, Maven, Flyway, Docker, Kubernetes, GitLab, Jira, ArgoCD, Grafana Qualifications - 6+ years of experience in Java development - 3+ years of experience in Angular front‑end development - Strong experience with Spring Framework, Quarkus - Understanding of microservices architecture and containers (Docker/Kubernetes) - Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL or other RDBMS) - Experience with REST/SOAP integrations and messaging (Kafka, ActiveMQ) - Good understanding of testing principles - Ability to communicate confidently in English Additional Information We offer: - Culture of Relentless Performance: join an unstoppable technology development team with a 99% project success rate and more than 30% year-over-year revenue growth. - Competitive Pay and Benefits: enjoy a comprehensive compensation and benefits package, including health insurance, and a relocation program. - Work From Anywhere Culture: make the most of the flexibility that comes with remote work. - Growth Mindset: reap the benefits of a range of professional development opportunities, including certification programs, mentorship and talent investment programs, internal mobility and internship opportunities. - Global Impact: collaborate on impactful projects for top global clients and shape the future of industries. - Welcoming Multicultural Environment: be a part of a dynamic, global team and thrive in an inclusive and supportive work environment with open communication and regular team-building company social events. - Social Sustainability Values: join our sustainable business practices focused on five pillars, including IT education, community empowerment, fair operating practices, environmental sustainability, and gender equality. * Miratech is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other protected status under applicable law.

Company Description Miratech helps visionaries change the world. We are a global IT services and consulting company that brings together enterprise and start-up innovation. Today, we support digital transformation for some of the world's largest enterprises. By partnering with both large and small players, we stay at the leading edge of technology, remain nimble even as a global leader, and create technology that helps our clients further enhance their business. We are a values-driven organization and our culture of Relentless Performance has enabled over 99% of Miratech's engagements to succeed by meeting or exceeding our scope, schedule, and/or budget objectives since our inception in 1989. Miratech has coverage across 5 continents and operates in over 25 countries around the world. Miratech retains nearly 1000 full-time professionals, and our annual growth rate exceeds 25%. Job Description We are looking to hire a Senior Full Stack Developer who will take part in development and maintenance services for customized software solutions for large European customer, a provider of innovative software solutions for the public sector. The client is a technology service provider specializing in digital solutions for public sector organizations. The company focuses on developing secure, scalable platforms that support administrative processes, data management, and digital transformation initiatives. The project includes software application development in the tax administration domain. The system under development is the tax administration system that covers taxation processes in one of the European countries. This is the complex system that covers the full life-cycle of tax declarations processing and tax calculations and assessments that included integration with multiple external systems. The project team consist of 20+ people. Responsibilities: - Implement software components according to the design specifications - Perform system integration and testing, problem troubleshooting, and resolution - Perform unit testing of software components - Participate in estimating project efforts and delivery timelines - Proactively collaborate with teammates and communicate with the Project Stakeholders to ensure that the Project efforts proceed efficiently and with predictability - Provide technical input into product roadmaps - Participate in triage activities (incident analysis and prioritization) - Support and optimize CI/CD processes Project Tech Stack Backend (Java): Spring, Quarkus. Frontend: Angular (latest versions) Data & Integration: PostgreSQL,RESTEasy, Hibernate / Panache, Kafka Architecture, DevOps & Tools: Microservices, Maven, Flyway, Docker, Kubernetes, GitLab, Jira, ArgoCD, Grafana Qualifications - 6+ years of experience in Java development - 3+ years of experience in Angular front‑end development - Strong experience with Spring Framework, Quarkus - Understanding of microservices architecture and containers (Docker/Kubernetes) - Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL or other RDBMS) - Experience with REST/SOAP integrations and messaging (Kafka, ActiveMQ) - Good understanding of testing principles - Ability to communicate confidently in English Additional Information We offer: - Culture of Relentless Performance: join an unstoppable technology development team with a 99% project success rate and more than 30% year-over-year revenue growth. - Competitive Pay and Benefits: enjoy a comprehensive compensation and benefits package, including health insurance, and a relocation program. - Work From Anywhere Culture: make the most of the flexibility that comes with remote work. - Growth Mindset: reap the benefits of a range of professional development opportunities, including certification programs, mentorship and talent investment programs, internal mobility and internship opportunities. - Global Impact: collaborate on impactful projects for top global clients and shape the future of industries. - Welcoming Multicultural Environment: be a part of a dynamic, global team and thrive in an inclusive and supportive work environment with open communication and regular team-building company social events. - Social Sustainability Values: join our sustainable business practices focused on five pillars, including IT education, community empowerment, fair operating practices, environmental sustainability, and gender equality. * Miratech is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other protected status under applicable law.

• Implement software components according to the design specifications • Perform system integration and testing, problem troubleshooting, and resolution • Perform unit testing of software components • Participate in estimating project efforts and delivery timelines • Proactively collaborate with teammates and communicate with the Project Stakeholders to ensure that the Project efforts proceed efficiently and with predictability • Provide technical input into product roadmaps • Participate in triage activities (incident analysis and prioritization) • Support and optimize CI/CD processes