Senior Developer, React & Rails

Summary

Join Thoughtworks as a Senior Software Developer and collaborate with diverse teams to design and build innovative software solutions for our clients. You will leverage your expertise in full-stack development, particularly React and Rails, to create large-scale, distributed systems using microservices. As a senior developer, you will mentor junior colleagues, advocate for best practices, and contribute to a positive team environment. The role involves working in a hybrid model, primarily remotely, with occasional travel to client sites. Thoughtworks offers a supportive culture with numerous development programs and opportunities for career growth.

Requirements

• Work as a Fullstack Engineer
• Have experience using React, and Rails is a must have with experience in Object-Oriented programming
• Skillfully write high-quality, well-tested code and be comfortable with Object-Oriented programming
• Be comfortable with Agile methodologies, such as Extreme Programming (XP), Scrum and/or Kanban
• Have a good awareness of TDD, continuous integration and continuous delivery approaches/tools

Responsibilities

• Learn and adopt best practices like writing clean and reusable code using TDD, pair programming and design patterns
• Use and advocate for continuous delivery practices to deliver high-quality software as well as value to end customers as early as possible
• Work in collaborative, value-driven teams to build innovative customer experiences for our clients
• Create large-scale distributed systems out of microservices
• 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 the latest technology thinking from our Technology Radar to solve client problems
• Efficiently utilize DevSecOps tools and practices to build and deploy software, advocating devops culture and shifting security left in development
• Oversee or take part in the entire cycle of software consulting and delivery from ideation to deployment and everything in between
• Act as a mentor for less-experienced peers through both your technical knowledge and leadership skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Have Temporal Experience
• Have working knowledge of cloud technology such as AWS, Azure, Kubernetes and Docker
• Enjoy influencing others and always advocate for technical excellence while being open to change when needed
• Have presence in the external tech community: willingly share your expertise with others via speaking engagements, contributions to open source, blogs and more
• Be resilient in ambiguous situations and approach challenges from multiple perspectives

Benefits

• There is no one-size-fits-all career path at Thoughtworks: however you want to develop your career is entirely up to you. But we also balance autonomy with the strength of our cultivation culture. This means your career is supported by interactive tools, numerous development programs and teammates who want to help you grow. We see value in helping each other be our best and that extends to empowering our employees in their career journeys
• While we’ve traditionally been a traveling consultancy, we have adopted a hybrid working model with the majority of work being completed remotely from either home or local Thoughtworks offices. However, business travel to client locations should be expected when required by Thoughtworks or our clients’ needs