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Overview
Founded in 2006, 8th Light is a global team of software, design, and technology professionals. We partner with forward-thinking people and organizations to help them imagine and create elegant, robust, and groundbreaking software solutions to comp...
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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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Technologies
Tech DNA
C#
Go
JavaScript
AutoGen
CrewAI
LangChain
Delta Lake
Amazon Redshift
Google BigQuery
AWS
Azure
GCP
QA
C#
Go
JavaScript
Ruby
TypeScript
Java
AI/ML
Python
Scala
SQL
AutoGen
Computer Vision
CrewAI
LangChain
LlamaIndex
NLP
RAG
AI Agents
Platform Engineering
Databricks
CI/CD
Git
Vector
Spark
AWS
Azure
CloudFormation
Docker
GCP
Kubernetes
Terraform
Amazon Kinesis
Delta Lake
Amazon Redshift
Google BigQuery
Snowflake
Other
.NET
React.js
n8n
Apache Kafka
ETL/ELT
Stack modernity
76/100
How modern this stack is, based on technology relevance, AI adoption and the share of legacy tools.
In-demand technologies
Python
5 jobs
Required
$158k
-12% vs market
Go
5 jobs
Required
$158k
-22% vs market
JavaScript
5 jobs
Required
$158k
-1% vs market
TypeScript
5 jobs
Required
$158k
-12% vs market
SQL
5 jobs
Required
$158k
+12% vs market
Ruby
5 jobs
Required
$158k
-16% vs market
C#
5 jobs
Required
$158k
+17% vs market
Scala
5 jobs
Required
$158k
-10% vs market
Salary medians are calculated from this company's open jobs and compared with the market.
Industry adoption
Python
26%
JavaScript
24%
SQL
24%
CI/CD
24%
AWS
20%
TypeScript
19%
Share of companies in the same industry that use each technology.
Stack changes
ETL/ELT
Aug 2026
Amazon Kinesis
Aug 2026
n8n
Aug 2026
AI Agents
Aug 2026
Terraform
Aug 2026
Snowflake
Aug 2026
Kubernetes
Aug 2026
Java
Aug 2026
Technologies recently added to or removed from this company's stack - a signal of tech migrations and new initiatives.
Jobgether
Accenture
Weekday
State Street
Bosch
Autodesk
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$158k
Typical range
$158k – $189k
Open positions
3
3
Jobs
Staff
66.7%
Principal
33.3%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Staff | 2 | $158k | $158k |
| Principal | 1 | $189k | $189k |
Highest paying role
Principal Software Engineer (Remote)
$189k
Normalized to USD per year
Growth
Hiring Momentum
79/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
5
2 opened / 3 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
14 days
faster than 59% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~15 hours
08/31/2026
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
86% ▲
Data Science
14% ▲
Actively hiring for Backend (+8 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added Terraform to stack
Aug 2026
Added Snowflake to stack
Aug 2026
Added Kubernetes to stack
Aug 2026
Added Java to stack
Aug 2026
Added Google BigQuery to stack
Aug 2026
Added GCP to stack
Aug 2026
Added Docker to stack
Aug 2026
Added CloudFormation to stack
Aug 2026
Added Azure to stack
Aug 2026
Added AWS to stack
Aug 2026
Added Amazon Redshift to stack
Aug 2026
Added Spark to stack
Aug 2026
Jobs
$152k – $189k per year • Remote
C#
Go
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
SQL
TypeScript
.NET
Databases
Databricks
AI/ML
AutoGen
Computer Vision
CrewAI
LangChain
LlamaIndex
NLP
RAG
AI Agents
Frontend
React.js
DevOps
Platform Engineering
Vector
Management
n8n
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≈ $84k – $169k per year (Estimated) • Remote/Hybrid • London
C#
Go
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
SQL
TypeScript
.NET
Databases
Databricks
AI/ML
AutoGen
Computer Vision
CrewAI
LangChain
LlamaIndex
NLP
RAG
AI Agents
Frontend
React.js
DevOps
Platform Engineering
Vector
Management
n8n
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$126k – $158k per year • Remote
C#
Go
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
SQL
TypeScript
.NET
Databases
Databricks
AI/ML
AutoGen
Computer Vision
CrewAI
LangChain
LlamaIndex
NLP
RAG
AI Agents
Frontend
React.js
DevOps
CI/CD
Git
Platform Engineering
Management
n8n
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≈ $83k – $167k per year (Estimated) • Remote/Hybrid • London
C#
Go
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
SQL
TypeScript
.NET
Databases
Databricks
AI/ML
AutoGen
Computer Vision
CrewAI
LangChain
LlamaIndex
NLP
RAG
AI Agents
Frontend
React.js
DevOps
CI/CD
Git
Platform Engineering
Management
n8n
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Lead Software Engineer (Remote)
1 month ago$126k – $158k per year • Remote • Bachelor's Degree • New York
C#
Go
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
SQL
TypeScript
.NET
Databases
Databricks
AI/ML
AutoGen
Computer Vision
CrewAI
LangChain
LlamaIndex
NLP
RAG
AI Agents
Frontend
React.js
DevOps
CI/CD
Git
Platform Engineering
Management
n8n
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