Lead Developers act as the primary point of contact for our clients, ensuring that teams are successful in their delivery. In this role, you will bring a strategic mindset to projects and spend time collaborating and negotiating with clients to bring a technical vision to life. Having a balance of high-level and tactical mindsets is a must, as you will spend time both with clients and your teammates.
Job Responsibilities
* You will champion and adopt best practices like writing clean and reusable code using TDD, pair programming and design patterns.
* You will oversee or take part in the entire cycle of software consulting and delivery from ideation to evolution in production and everything in between.
* You will use and advocate for continuous delivery practices to deliver high-quality software as well as value to end customers as early as possible.
* You will design solutions and choose technologies that solve clients' problems while working within constraints and make pragmatic tradeoffs.
* You will 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.
* You will apply the latest technology thinking from our Technology Radar to solve client problems.
* You will apply a variety of languages and tools to your work and continue to code alongside Developers; you will not be post-technical in this role.
* You will efficiently utilize and champion DevSecOps tools and practices to build and deploy software, advocating devops culture and shifting security left in development.
* You will cultivate Thoughtworker growth and development by encouraging feedback and fostering an inclusive, supportive team culture.
Job Qualifications
Technical Skills
* You have at least 8 years of full stack experience using Python/Nodejs + React with experience in object-oriented programming.
* You have led software development teams using Agile, Lean and/or Continuous.
* Knowledge of delivery approaches such as TDD, continuous integration, pairing and infrastructure automation.
* Bonus points if you have knowledge of cloud technology such as AWS, Docker or Kubernetes.
* You enjoy continuously learning and improving, whether it is through functional programming paradigms, event driven architecture, platform engineering or others.
Professional Skills
* You have experience influencing others and always advocate for technical excellence while being open to change when needed.
* You bridge product and technology by helping to translate business needs to software requirements.
* You have the ability to develop and execute a technical vision with a focus on business value.
* You will act as a mentor for less experienced peers through both your technical knowledge and ability to inspire a team to deliver extraordinary impact together.
* You're resilient in ambiguous situations and can approach challenges from multiple perspectives.
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