Lead Software Developer

Summary

Join Thoughtworks as a Lead UI Developer and be the primary client contact, ensuring successful project delivery. You'll bring a strategic mindset, negotiating technical visions with clients while collaborating with teammates. This role requires a balance of high-level and tactical thinking. You'll champion best practices, guide teams, and design scalable, accessible UI systems. You'll collaborate extensively, apply diverse technologies, and foster a supportive team culture. Thoughtworks offers a supportive environment for career growth and development.

Requirements

• Have experience with Clojurescript, Reagent/Re-frame, Good UX sense, Strong CSS, HTML and JavaScript skills
• Have led software development teams using Agile, Lean and/or Continuous Delivery approaches such as TDD, continuous integration, pairing and infrastructure automation
• Be well-versed in JavaScript programming, design patterns and writing modular, reusable, object-oriented and functional JavaScript code
• Be familiar with JavaScript packaging tools and be comfortable with Typescript
• Have extensive experience with concepts such as design systems, atomic design, micro frontends, progressive web apps and backend for frontend
• Be an expert with at least one of the three major contemporary web frameworks (React, Angular or Vue) and can seamlessly switch between them as needed
• Have experience developing modular web components using the latest HTML, CSS, and JavaScript standards, and have a proficient understanding of cross-browser and cross-platform compatibility issues and ways to work around them
• Have a strong understanding of HTTP, multi-tiered web architectures and the latest web standards including web accessibility
• Have experience in creating complex CSS layouts using CSS best practices for responsive, mobile-first experiences
• Understand and apply user experience and web design principles into your applications
• Have experience influencing others and always advocate for technical excellence while being open to change when needed
• Have the ability to develop and execute a technical vision with a focus on business value
• Act as a mentor for less experienced peers through both your technical knowledge and ability to inspire a team to deliver extraordinary impact together
• Be resilient in ambiguous situations and can approach challenges from multiple perspectives
• Have Advanced English

Responsibilities

• Champion and adopt best practices like writing clean and reusable code using TDD, pair programming, design patterns and continuous delivery practices to deliver high-quality software as well as value to end customers as early as possible
• Oversee or take part in the entire cycle of software consulting and delivery from ideation to evolution in production and everything in between
• Design solutions and choose technologies that solve clients’ problems while working within constraints and making pragmatic tradeoffs
• Create scalable UI systems that are delightful, high functioning and accessible to all audiences
• Collaborate with a variety of teammates to build features, design concepts and interactive prototypes and ensure best practices and UX specifications are embedded along the way
• Apply a variety of languages and tools to your work and continue to code alongside Developers; you will not be post-technical in this role
• Efficiently use and champion DevSecOps tools and practices to build and deploy software, advocating devops culture and shifting security left in development
• Take ownership and accountability beyond individual deliverables, always pushing the envelope to deliver awesome results for our clients
• Apply the latest technology thinking from our Technology Radar to solve client problems
• Cultivate Thoughtworker growth and development by encouraging feedback and fostering an inclusive, supportive team culture

Benefits

• Learning & Development opportunities
• Remote work (#LI-Remote)