At Thoughtworks, Lead Developers are pivotal to client success, serving as the primary point of contact and ensuring teams deliver high-value software. You'll bring a strategic mindset to projects, collaborating and negotiating with clients to bring a technical vision to life while balancing high-level and tactical work. Our culture is committed to going above and beyond standard practices, delivering best-in-class solutions, and fostering career growth through our award-winning cultivation environment.

What You'll Do

Champion and adopt best practices like writing clean, reusable code using TDD, pair programming and design patterns.
Oversee or take part in the entire software consulting and delivery cycle from ideation to evolution in production.
Use and advocate for continuous delivery practices to deliver high-quality software and value to end customers early.
Design solutions and choose technologies that solve clients’ problems, working within constraints and making pragmatic tradeoffs.
Collaborate with teammates to build features, design concepts, interactive prototypes, and embed best practices and UX specifications.
Apply the latest technology thinking from our Technology Radar to solve client problems.
Apply a variety of languages and tools and continue to code alongside Developers.
Efficiently utilize and champion DevSecOps tools and practices to build and deploy software, advocating devops culture and shifting security left.
Cultivate Thoughtworker growth by encouraging feedback and fostering an inclusive, supportive team culture.

What We're Looking For

Well-versed in two or more languages (e.g., Java, Kotlin, JavaScript, TypeScript, Ruby, C#) and comfortable with the latest Object-Oriented technology.
Led software development teams using Agile, Lean and/or Continuous delivery.
Knowledge of delivery approaches such as TDD, continuous integration, pairing and infrastructure automation.
Experience influencing others and always advocating for technical excellence while being open to change.
Ability to bridge product and technology by helping translate business needs to software requirements.
Ability to develop and execute a technical vision with a focus on business value.
Act as a mentor for less experienced peers through technical knowledge and ability to inspire a team.
Resilient in ambiguous situations and can approach challenges from multiple perspectives.

Nice to Have

Knowledge of cloud technology such as AWS, Docker or Kubernetes.
Enjoy continuously learning and improving, whether through functional programming paradigms, event driven architecture, platform engineering or others.