• 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.

• Move fluidly between writing code, designing system architecture, coaching engineers, and troubleshooting live platform issues • Build core platform services and supply chain optimization solutions • Personally architect, implement, and maintain microservices • Take end-to-end ownership of the systems • Deliver scalable solutions, maintain platform stability, elevate engineering standards, and mentor engineers • Leverage modern AI development tools to accelerate velocity, improve code quality, and ensure system reliability • Design and build scalable platform services, APIs, and supply chain microservices in Java, Python, or TypeScript • Architect and deploy services across AWS using containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) • Design and optimize data layers using PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Redis • Define and implement RESTful APIs and event-driven architectures • Establish and maintain coding, testing, and monitoring standards • Lead code reviews and champion automated testing practices • Contribute to the design and improvement of CI/CD pipelines • Produce clear, comprehensive technical documentation • Work closely with product management, data science, and customer-facing teams • Mentor engineers on advanced technical concepts and career development • Own the reliability and performance of the systems you build • Serve as a technical escalation point for platform issues

Role Description You're early in your career – maybe just out of university, maybe a year or two in. You can code. You care about doing it well. And you want to work on something that actually runs in production, not just toy projects or internal dashboards nobody uses. At ShippyPro, we're looking for a Graduate / Junior Software Engineer to join our Tracking & Notifications team – the team that makes sure every shipment update reaches the right person at the right time, at scale. You'll work alongside experienced engineers who want to see you grow, not just get tickets done. Real ownership, real feedback, real growth. If you write clean code, ask sharp questions, and get genuinely curious when something breaks – keep reading. What You’ll Do - 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 Qualifications - A strong foundation in software engineering fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, clean code, version control - Hands-on experience with databases (relational or NoSQL) you’ve written real queries and thought about data - Genuine curiosity: you don’t need to know everything, but you need to want to figure things out - Enthusiasm for working with AI – both as a dev tool and as part of what we build - Professional working proficiency in English (our team is international) Requirements - Nice to have – not blockers, but they’ll help you hit the ground running: - A degree in Computer Science or a related technical field - Experience with Python, TypeScript or PHP - Familiarity with cloud services or distributed systems from projects, internships, or personal work - Our stack – you don’t need to know all of this on day one, but this is the environment you’ll grow into: - Languages: Python and TypeScript (primary), PHP (also present) - Databases: PostgreSQL, Aurora, Redshift, DynamoDB - Infrastructure: AWS, Serverless Framework - Version control & CI/CD: Git, GitHub, GitHub Actions Benefits - Competitive salary between €28,000 and €35,000, calculated through our salary simulator – built on objective metrics, because we believe in unbiased compensation - Meal vouchers (office or remote) - Mental healthcare - Yearly learning budget and AI tools - Remote flexibility with expenses-paid trips to HQ for team meetups - No clock-in/out policy and one-time home office allowance - Career Growth Program – clear growth paths, structured goals, and continuous feedback - An international team that moves fast and cares about building things well Hiring Process - Application review - Intro call – 45-60 min with our People and Culture Team to align on expectations and context - Technical interview: a deep-dive with the engineering team on how you think and work - Final challenge: a short, practical coding exercise to see how you approach a real engineering problem A Note Before You Apply If you want to move on with the application, you’ll have to answer a few questions. Although we love AI (it’s part of almost everything we do!) we’d love to hear you. Be honest – no right or wrong answers here. Feel free to use AI if you want, but make sure your answers sound like you, not just a completed task. Thanks for considering joining our team. We look forward to hearing from you!

• Improving architecture across backend services and platform infrastructure, and defining long-term architectural strategy and technical standards across teams • Establish engineering standards that improve consistency, maintainability, reliability, and operational readiness • Scale distributed systems and improve performance across core services • Improve production engineering practices, including observability, testing, incident response, and post-incident review • Identify and reduce high-impact technical debt • Improve developer tooling, workflows, and engineering productivity • Help teams use agentic development tools effectively across planning, implementation, testing, review, and validation • Partnering with product and infrastructure teams on scalable, resilient systems and subsequently simplifying systems and reducing organizational complexity as the platform scales • Mentor Senior and Staff engineers through architecture reviews, technical coaching, and project guidance • Serve as a trusted technical advisor for difficult engineering and architectural decisions