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Principal Software Engineer

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💎 Seniority level: Principal, 10+ years

📍 Location: United States, United Kingdom

💸 Salary: $120,000 to $189,000

🔍 Industry: Software Development Consultancy

🗣️ Languages: English

⏳ Experience: 10+ years

🪄 Skills: PythonSoftware DevelopmentGitJavaJavascriptRubyTypeScriptData engineeringReact

Requirements:
  • You’ve shown long-term repeated success on a variety of projects, typically over the course of 10+ years
  • You can be the go-to leader for any software development engagement
  • You have a broad and deep range of expertise that allows you to make an immediate impact on projects
  • In your previous experience, you have written production-quality code in multiple programming languages, built high-quality, maintainable software collaboratively, incrementally, and pragmatically, 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, addressed architecture-level concerns such as scalability, security, reliability, and performance, led projects or teams, brought together people from different functions and perspectives in 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, collaboratively led stakeholders to balance technical considerations with product and user needs.
Responsibilities:
  • As a lead technologist on projects, you'll work with a variety of clients, typically one to two in a year, and in a variety of languages 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 creating software
  • You'll invest time developing your skills and sharing what you know
  • You'll be responsible for 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, 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, 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, serving as a mentor to those on your teams, identifying and resolving blockers to team progress, contributing to 8th Light by serving as a mentor to apprentices, leading or designing workshops internally or for clients, representing 8th Light in the tech community, or supporting our hiring processes.
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