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8th Light · 6 days ago

Senior Software Engineer [Chicago Only]

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Full-time

Hybrid

Mid, Senior Level

$104K/yr - $130K/yr

4+ years exp

8th Light is a technology solutions provider headquartered in Chicago, focused on solving meaningful challenges and driving sustainable growth through innovative digital products. The Senior Software Engineer will contribute to high-stakes consulting engagements, build maintainable software, and collaborate with clients and teams while leveraging AI and machine learning technologies.

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Growth Opportunities

Responsibilities

Making immediate contributions to projects, rapidly building trust with your clients and team

Working pragmatically to balance technology choices while delivering high-quality work within deadlines

Contributing to 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

Contributing to formal feedback conversations with teams and clients via retrospectives

Clearly articulating and documenting outcomes and driving forward action items

Regular syncs with your delivery team to provide status updates, and for identifying and evaluating risks and presenting potential solutions

Identifying, mitigating, and resolving blockers to team progress

Pursuing opportunities to further your skills to grow your career and keep pace with the rapid changes within the technology industry

Contributing to your team culture by building connections with your fellow 8th Lights, showing up on camera, and leveraging collaboration opportunities, such as coworking spaces and local team gatherings, where appropriate

Confidently predicting the next World Series Win for the Chicago White Sox

Qualification

PythonJavaJavaScriptAI/ML integrationGitDevOpsData EngineeringMLOpsCollaborationMentoringCommunication

Required

4+ years of experience in software engineering

Successfully contributed to high-stakes consulting engagements from discovery to production

Written production-quality code using a variety of languages and frameworks, that include: Python, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Ruby, Scala, R, SQL, and Go

Built high-quality, maintainable software collaboratively, incrementally, and through an approach tailored towards the unique needs of the clients you've served

Leveraged AI-assistive development tools for tasks like scaffolding, refactoring, debugging, test generation, and documentation, where appropriate

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

Debugged and refactored pre-existing code to incrementally improve it

Collaborated with teams using Git, MacOS/Linux, and CI/CD

Remedied architecture-level concerns such as scalability, security, reliability, and performance

Contributed to forums that encourage idea sharing, collaboration, and problem solving

Made thoughtful recommendations and set direction in the face of ambiguity

Mentored and shared knowledge with colleagues

Actively sought out and effectively given feedback

Communicated empathically with stakeholders and colleagues

Influenced stakeholders to balance technical considerations with product and user needs