Senior / Lead Software Developer
About ThoughtWorks
We are a software company and a community of passionate, purpose-led individuals. We think disruptively to deliver technology to address our clients' toughest challenges, all while seeking to revolutionize the IT industry and create positive social change.
Whether you’re driving your market forward, or worried about being overtaken, we believe you don’t have to choose between inventiveness and reliable delivery. We always bring a measure of both. Together we’ll create a new future, and deliver it in the right way, at the right time.
ThoughtWorks brings strategy, portfolio management and product design, combined with digital engineering excellence. We help our clients become data-led businesses. We create products that their customers love. In weeks, not years.
Position
- Think through hard problems in a consultancy environment, and work with amazing people to make the solutions a reality
- Work in a dynamic, collaborative, non-hierarchical environment where your talent is valued over your job title or years of experience
- Build custom software using the latest technologies and tools
- Craft your own career path
- Creating complex, enterprise-transforming applications on diverse, high energy teams
- Hands-on coding, usually in a pair programming environment
- Working in highly collaborative teams and building quality code
- Working in lots of different domains and client environments
Your qualification
- 5 + years of combined development and delivery experience with Java / Golang / C# / Ruby / Elixir / Python / Node.js or any similar exciting technologies
- Hands-on experience in analysis, design, coding, and implementation of complex, custom-built applications
- Great OO skills, including strong design patterns knowledge
- Familiarity with few databases, like MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, NoSQL, etc
- Experience working with, or an interest in Agile Methodologies, such as Extreme Programming (XP) and Scrum
- Knowledge of software best practices, like Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Continuous Integration (CI)
- Strong communication and client-facing skills with the ability to work in a consulting environment is essential
- Desire to contribute to the wider technical community through collaboration, coaching, and mentoring of other technologists
- Lead developers (8+ years) are expected to be the Architect for relatively smaller enterprise level projects and for larger projects, you are expected to work closely with the fellow architects to come up with the architecture and take it further.
