8th Light
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Overview
8th Light is a software consultancy that designs, builds and modernises custom software for organisations, offering software engineering, product design, data and platform services. Founded in 2006, it works with clients in the United States and the United Kingdom, with teams in Chicago, London and New York. The company is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
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From AI Code to Trusted Software: Harness Engineering in Practice
If the same reasoning path writes the system change and defines the proof of success, you may be setting yourself up for an avoidable failure in the future. Harness engineering is meant to act as an extension of your own organizational guardrails, which w
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Waggy, Claude, and Code: Celebrating Drake Fish, Our Newest Beacon
Working at 8th Light, we have the daily privilege of collaborating with truly brilliant minds-people who bridge the gap between deep engineering and meaningful human connection. We are also incredibly fortunate to work alongside folks who, no matter how t
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Teaching the Agent Our Craft: Structured Agentic Development on a Real Codebase
The MissionWe recently partnered with a startup that had developed a clinically proven approach to alleviating neuroplastic chronic pain. Their program worked: a coach-led model that helped patients ease chronic pain at a lower cost than conventional trea
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Celebrating our Beacon: Kevin Buchanan
Congratulations to Kevin Buchanan, our latest Beacon Award recipient, a peer-nominated honor that celebrates the people who bring our values to life and light the way for others to follow. Kevin, Principal Engineer, has been an 8th Light for over 12 years
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Production is the New Prototype: Notes from LangChain Interrupt 2026
8th Light's Head of Agentic AI, Travis Frisinger, and I spent two days in San Francisco at LangChain Interrupt 2026 watching what happens when agent demos meet production traffic. The room was full of companies that have crossed that line, and a few that
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Accelerating Delivery: How AI Agents Can Own the Initial Code Draft
Why This Matters in the Era of Agentic EverythingThe gap between a Jira ticket and the first pull request (PR) is often a graveyard of productivity. Context switching, boilerplate setup, and requirement analysis can eat up hours of a senior engineer's day
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LLMs Are Proving That It Is Impossible to Automate Away the Human Experience
The Gap is RealIf your accessibility process ends with a passing scan, your users with disabilities are likely encountering barriers you do not know about.Automated tools are useful. LLM-assisted auditing has raised the ceiling. Neither closes the gap bet
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Reframing Healthcare Technology in the AI Era
At 8th Light, we help healthcare organizations design and build AI-enabled systems that put people first, combining product strategy, human-centered design, and technology leadership to create innovative solutions that work for clinicians as well as patie
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A Primer: MCP Servers and the Model Context Protocol
Navigating ChangeThe way we interact with software is shifting. Instead of clicking through web interfaces and learning different UIs for each system, some people are moving toward natural language as the interface - telling an AI what they want done, and
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at 8th Light over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
41
Postings analysed
24
Stack modernity
79/100
Languages
Python92%
SQL92%
Scala79%
C#75%
Frameworks & libraries
React.js75%
LangChain75%
AutoGen71%
CrewAI71%
Databases
Delta Lake13%
Amazon Redshift4%
Google BigQuery4%
Snowflake4%
Cloud & platforms
Databricks92%
.NET75%
Linux38%
Amazon Kinesis17%
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$174k
Typical range
$158k – $189k
Open positions
2
2
Jobs
Staff
50%
Principal
50%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Staff | 1 | $158k | $158k |
| Principal | 1 | $189k | $189k |
Highest paying role
Principal Software Engineer (Remote)
$189k
Normalized to USD per year
Growth
Hiring Momentum
89/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
5
3 opened / 4 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
17 days
faster than 57% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Backend
75% ▼
Data Science
17% ▲
Leadership
4% ▲
Marketing
4% ▼
Activity Timeline
New location: United States
Oct 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack
Sep 2026
Added Linux to stack
Sep 2026
Added Azure Data Factory to stack
Sep 2026
Added LinkedIn to stack
Sep 2026
Added ETL/ELT to stack
Aug 2026
Added Amazon Kinesis to stack
Aug 2026
Added n8n to stack
Aug 2026
Added AI Agents to stack
Aug 2026
Added Vector to stack
Jul 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
1
Countries
2
Busiest office
London
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Agentic Systems: United Kingdom
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≈ $160k – $289k per year (Estimated) • Remote (United States) • 10+ years exp • United States
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≈ $90k – $177k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • London
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$152k – $189k per year • Remote (United States) • United States
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TypeScript
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Scala
.NET
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Databricks
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LangChain
LlamaIndex
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NLP
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RAG
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≈ $90k – $177k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • London
Python
Go
JavaScript
TypeScript
SQL
Ruby
C#
Scala
.NET
Databases
Databricks
AI/ML
AutoGen
LangChain
LlamaIndex
Computer Vision
AI Agents
NLP
CrewAI
RAG
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React.js
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Platform Engineering
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$126k – $158k per year • Remote (United States) • United States
Python
JavaScript
TypeScript
SQL
Ruby
C#
Scala
.NET
Databases
Databricks
AI/ML
LangChain
Computer Vision
AI Agents
NLP
Frontend
React.js
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Linux
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