• Take ambiguous, high-impact problems and drive them from idea to production. • Partner closely with Product and Design to define scope, trade-offs, and execution plans. • Design, build, and evolve production systems with a strong focus on reliability, correctness, and maintainability. • Balance speed and quality, knowing when to move fast and when to slow down. • Share ownership of the systems you build, including on-call responsibilities and incident response. • Contribute to technical and product decisions that shape the direction of your team • Help raise the bar for how the team builds by improving standards, tooling, and processes.

• Developing embedded software solutions • Collaborating with engineering teams • Ensuring software reliability and efficiency

• Contribute to the development and evolution of our tracking and notification services • Write, review, and ship code that runs at high volume in production • Work closely with our engineering team on design decisions, code reviews, and day-to-day problem solving • Collaborate with a distributed, international team across product, engineering, and operations • Get hands-on with microservices, event-driven systems, and cloud-native development on AWS • Use AI tools daily as part of our development workflow

• As a lead 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 lead more complicated projects, leading teams to do so. • You’ll work with colleagues who share your passion for technology solutions. • You’ll invest time developing your skills and sharing what you know. • Making immediate contributions to projects, rapidly building trust with clients. • Working pragmatically to balance technology choices while delivering high-quality work within deadlines. • Leading 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. • 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. • Ensuring your team has a healthy, prioritized, estimated backlog. • Managing high-level project roadmaps as the team lead for large engagements. • Maintaining relationships with client technical leaders. • Regular syncs with the client to provide status updates, and for identifying and evaluating risks and presenting potential solutions. • 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.