Lead Software Engineer (Hybrid)

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Lead Software Engineer (Hybrid) in UK

8th Light
Full time
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UK
08/27/2026
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London

Responsibilities

Lead complex software consulting engagements from discovery through production and build trust with clients.
Lead architecture and software design discussions and make pragmatic technology decisions.
Collaborate on systems covering the full ML lifecycle, including data ingestion, preprocessing, model deployment, integration, and performance monitoring.
Lead teams, maintain a healthy prioritized backlog, manage high-level project roadmaps, and resolve blockers.
Maintain relationships with client technical leaders, provide status updates, identify risks, and present solutions.
Facilitate feedback conversations, document outcomes, and drive action items forward.
Mentor colleagues, lead or design workshops, represent 8th Light in the technology community, and support hiring processes.

Requirements

Typically 7+ years of repeated success across a variety of software projects.
Experience leading high-stakes consulting engagements from discovery through production.
Production-quality coding experience with a variety of languages and frameworks, including Java, C#/.NET, Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, React, Go, Ruby, Scala, R, and SQL.
Experience building or integrating AI/ML-powered features such as recommendation engines, NLP models, computer vision, or predictive analytics.
Experience with automated testing, debugging, refactoring, Git, macOS/Linux, and CI/CD.
Ability to address architecture-level concerns including scalability, security, reliability, and performance.
Ability to lead technical direction, collaborate with stakeholders, balance technical and product needs, communicate empathetically, and mentor colleagues.
Strongly preferred experience in platform engineering, data engineering with Databricks, production agentic systems, DevSecOps, DevOps, MLOps, or infrastructure as code.

Benefits

Unlimited access to books, courses, and expert-led training through the O'Reilly learning platform.
Annual financial stipend and dedicated time for learning and development.
Coworking support for the global team.
12 weeks of new parent leave for eligible employees.
Hybrid London arrangement requiring a minimum of one day per week in the Waterloo office; consulting engagements generally do not require travel.

8th Light

We ship AI. 8th Light provides product strategy, design, and engineering for the work that earns its way to production. Agentic products, deep platform expertise. Since 2006, 8th Light has helped ambitious organizations find the right thing to build, and then build it. Through this important work...

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