Senior Frontend Developer

Summary

Join Thoughtworks as a Senior UI Developer and cultivate a collaborative environment while driving teams toward delivering on an aspirational tech vision. Leverage deep technical knowledge to solve complex business problems and proactively assess team health, code quality, and nonfunctional pipelines. Champion best practices in delivery teams, exemplifying what "good" looks like from a Thoughtworks engineering perspective. You will work in collaborative, value-driven teams to build innovative customer experiences for clients, creating scalable UI systems that are delightful, high-functioning, and accessible. You will also mentor less-experienced peers and contribute to the external tech community. Thoughtworks offers a supportive culture with numerous development programs to help you grow.

Requirements

• You are well-versed in JavaScript programming, design patterns and writing modular, reusable, object-oriented and functional JavaScript code
• You are familiar with JavaScript packaging tools and TypeScript
• You have experience with concepts such as design systems, atomic design, micro frontends, progressive web apps and backend for frontend
• You know at least one of the three major contemporary web frameworks (React, Angular or Vue) and can seamlessly switch between them as needed
• You 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
• You have a strong understanding of HTTP, multi-tiered web architectures and the latest web standards including web accessibility
• You have created responsive, mobile-first experiences using complex CSS layouts and best practices
• You understand and apply user experience and web design principles into your applications
• You are comfortable with Agile methods, such as Extreme Programming (XP), Scrum and/or Kanban
• You have a good awareness of TDD, continuous integration and continuous delivery approaches/tools
• You enjoy influencing others and always advocate for technical excellence while being open to change when needed
• You have a presence in the external tech community and willingly share your expertise with others via speaking engagements, contributions to open source, blogs and more
• You are resilient in ambiguous situations and can approach challenges from multiple perspectives

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
• 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
• Create scalable UI systems that are delightful, high functioning and accessible to all audiences
• Efficiently use DevSecOps tools and practices to build and deploy software, advocating devops culture and shifting security left in development
• Learn, digest and subsequently apply the latest technology thinking from our Technology Radar to solve client problems
• 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

Benefits

• There is no one-size-fits-all career path at Thoughtworks: however you want to develop your career is entirely up to you
• Your career is supported by interactive tools, numerous development programs and teammates who want to help you grow