Job Summary

Responsibilities

We're looking for an experienced technical leader who is excited to support our development team in their growth and fulfillment as consultants and developers.

You'll provide mentorship and support a team of up to four teammates: individual contributors who are either development or design consultants. You'll collaborate with other team leadership on team fulfillment, client success, and improving team processes.

You'll work directly with clients on projects as a Senior Software Developer, leading by example with your communication and advocating for how we work as consultants, especially in difficult situations. You'll partner closely with product managers, designers, developers, and clients to help solve problems.

You'll deliver high-quality, well-tested software, mentor both client and thoughtbot engineering teams in software best practices, and advise on product prioritization, agile process, team culture, and communication.

During investment time, you'll contribute to the broader tech community, thoughtbot, and yourself. The majority of thoughtbot's open-source work and blog content is the result of investment time.

This is a fully-remote position on the Boost team, which focuses on embedding with technical teams to address technical debt, implement process improvements, and mentor and upskill client teams.

Requirements

Alongside hands-on technical abilities in web development, we're looking for a technical leader with experience leading and advocating for a development team, and providing day-to-day support and mentorship to other developers

thoughtbot web developers are able to build high-quality, test-driven applications with Ruby on Rails. Well-qualified candidates will have an excellent knowledge of refactoring, application architecture, performance tuning, debugging, design patterns, and working effectively in legacy applications. We don't expect every candidate to have experience with all of these aspects of Rails development.

While Rails experience is a must, we also work with clients using Node.js, JavaScript, TypeScript, React and Elm. Experience or interest in some of these technologies is a plus.

As consultants, we work closely with our clients. Experience with a client-facing role like consulting, teaching, or business development is also valuable.

Well-qualified candidates value diversity, equity, and inclusion, and contribute to an inclusive working and learning environment.

We especially appreciate candidates that demonstrate commitment to valuing DEI and contributing to an inclusive working and learning environment. We also understand that not everyone has had the opportunity to commit to this work, and that's okay.