• Join the backend team to support the digital websites, OTT and applications for news operations • Work with WordPress, PHP, AWS (Lambda, SQS, SNS, S3, EC2) to support all Owned Television Stations digital properties • Develop, deploy and enhance multiple websites with a PHP-based Content Management System • Create APIs and integrate with numerous external APIs • Contribute to and support AI-driven initiatives, including features powered by AI services • Collaborate with a product team to ensure product and team success • Analyze problems and create innovative technology solutions • Ensure product quality and timeliness of work • Help develop new and refine existing processes to enhance quality and productivity

• 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.

• Drive the technical strategy and execution for our engineering teams. • Lead the development of a scalable, high-performance lending ecosystem from customer onboarding to checkout. • Architect and build customer-centric financial products, ensuring a frictionless and optimized user experience and orchestrating large-scale financial transactions. • Define and execute the technical vision and best practices for a high-performing engineering team. Lead architectural decisions to enhance scalability, reliability, and efficiency of the lending platform. • Collaborate with Product, UX, and Business teams to align technology with strategic goals. Design, build, and maintain customer-facing lending applications using Node.js, TypeScript, React/Redux, Angular, Sequelize, PostgreSQL, and Docker. • Develop and optimize high-quality, testable code, implementing unit and integration tests with Mocha, Chai, Sinon, and Sequelize. • Ensure performance, security, and scalability through best-in-class software engineering practices. • Identify and resolve defects through debugging, profiling, logging, log analysis, tracing, and FullStory session replays. • Oversee code deployment to Staging and Production environments. • Partner with Quality Engineers to address issues found in testing and improve automated testing coverage. • Lead and participate in Agile ceremonies. Break down product requirements into engineering deliverables in Jira. • Review and provide critical feedback on Product Requirements Documents, Epics, and User Stories, influencing the technical and business roadmap. • Recommend alternative technical solutions to optimize delivery speed, enhance customer experience, and reduce costs. • Maintain technical documentation. • Contribute to Earnest’s DevOps culture and participate in rotating on-call support for production applications.

• Design, scope, and implement cutting-edge solutions using a mix of technologies. • Enhance the platform to boost performance, usability, and scalability. • Collaborate closely with Design and Product stakeholders to ensure we are building the right solutions to the right problems. • Identify high-impact opportunities with your team and turn them into reality. • Be an awesome teammate who’s all in on collaboration and collective success.