Principal Software Engineer (Hybrid) at 8Thlightrebuild · London
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.NET
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C#
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Computer Vision
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Go
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<li>Built and shipped production-grade platforms: the reusable foundations, tools, infrastructure, and workflows that help other teams shift
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<li>Taken AI and agentic systems from prototype to production, with a strong understanding of infrastructure, authentication, and observabil
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<li>Delivered on high-stakes consulting engagements across multiple language paradigms, stacks, ecosystems, and client industries 
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<li>Built high-quality, maintainable software collaboratively, incrementally, and through an approach tailored towards the unique needs of t
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<li>Actively experimented with AI development tools and translated that experimentation into faster, higher-quality delivery for your teams<
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<li>A track record of understanding, assessing, and embracing new tooling and trends within the software industry</li>
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Why they ask: Design judgement.
How to answer: Draw it, name the trade-offs, say what you learned.
Why they ask: Debugging method.
How to answer: Measure first, then caching, queries, indexes, async work.
Why they ask: Quality habits.
How to answer: Unit, integration, and what you would not test.
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Why they ask: .NET is named in the posting.
How to answer: One concrete project, one honest lesson.
Why they ask: C# is named in the posting.
How to answer: One concrete project, one honest lesson.
Why they ask: Opener to see how you frame your story.
How to answer: Two minutes: current role, one achievement that matches this job, why this company now.
Why they ask: Checks ownership and depth.
How to answer: Use situation, action, result. Quantify the result.
Why they ask: Tests accountability and learning.
How to answer: Pick a real failure, own your part, show the fix and what changed afterwards.
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