Join a team dedicated to creating products people love as a Remote Senior Ruby on Rails Consultant.
We're growing and looking for an experienced technical leader with
significant Ruby On Rails experience to join our consulting team as a
Senior Ruby on Rails Consultant.
You’ll work directly with clients on existing applications as a Senior
Ruby on Rails Consultant, 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. You’ll help contribute to our growing expertise in
applying AI to real world client needs.
During investment time, you'll contribute to the broader tech community,
thoughtbot, and yourself. The majority of thoughtbot's open-source
work, conference speaking, and blog content is the result of investment
time.
This is a fully-remote position on our team which focuses on embedding
with technical teams to address technical debt, implement process
improvements, and mentor and upskill client teams. You'll be working on
existing applications with existing teams.
thoughtbot is a fully remote company. Because we're looking for
teammates who overlap with our clients' teams working hours, this is a
remote position available to anyone throughout the Americas (UTC-3
through UTC-10).
We will begin reviewing applications no sooner than November 18th. Target start date for this role is mid-late January.
Salary and benefits vary by location. We publish all our salary ranges
in our compensation calculator. New team members typically have a
starting salary between the start and the middle of the band. Please
view the compensation range and benefits for where you live at:
https://thoughtbot.com/jobs/compensation?department=Development&title=Senior+Developer
We believe that it is possible to continuously learn and improve the way
people work while building higher-quality products that make positive
contributions to the world. We work with companies in every step of the
product development and maintenance process to help identify and solve
problems. We lead and participate in product design sprints, build
high-quality apps, and then deploy them.
We proactively work on improving diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)
at thoughtbot. We aim to maintain an inclusive work environment where
everyone can thrive professionally, as well as have full lives outside
of work. Read about our DEI efforts in the Diversity, Equity, and
Inclusion section of our Playbook. We acknowledge that DEI work is never
done, and that we will make mistakes along the way. We are continuously
working on learning, improving ourselves, and the company.
As a member of thoughtbot, you’ll be part of our distributed remote
community. We’re continuously working to assure remote work is
inclusive, collaborative, comfortable, and social.
Want to dig deeper? Read more about our Purpose and Values, and how we work in our Playbook.
Requirements
Senior thoughtbot consultants are able to build high-quality,
test-driven applications with Ruby on Rails, including Hotwire, and
JavaScript (or TypeScript). Well-qualified candidates will have an
excellent knowledge of refactoring, application architecture,
performance tuning, debugging, design patterns, and working effectively
in legacy applications.
As consultants, we work directly with our clients. Experience with a
client-facing role like consulting, teaching, or business development is
also valuable, but not required.
Senior consultants are able to be the only thoughtbotter working on a
client project, and therefore, the lead. We typically have more than one
thoughtbotter on a client project, but occasionally someone is solo.
Versatility in one other area is tremendously helpful. It’s a plus if
you have strong experience in either full-stack JavaScript or in DevOps
infrastructure management. Our range of both server-side and client-side
JavaScript includes React, TypeScript, Node.js, Next.js, and Nest.js.
Our clients’ DevOps needs cover Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, building CI/CD
pipelines, and monitoring applications with Prometheus and Grafana.
If you’re experienced with Ruby on Rails but aren’t as strong in
full-stack JavaScript or in production DevOps, we’d still like to hear
from you. We have others in the company you can collaborate with if you
have an interest in becoming strong in those areas.
Well-qualified candidates value diversity, equity, and inclusion,
and contributing 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.
We encourage you to apply even if you don’t match 100% of the
requirements. Let us know if you need any specific accommodations during
the interview process.
thoughtbot cannot sponsor work visas at this time.
Benefits
Benefits vary by location, but all team members accrue at least 20 paid
annual leave/vacation days per year and receive paid holidays and paid
sick days. thoughtbot ensures at least 12 weeks of fully paid parental
leave for birthing parents, and at least 6 weeks of fully paid parental
leave for non-birthing parents. All new parents have the ability to take
up to at least 6 months off by combining different types of leaves. In
addition to country-specific benefits, all team members receive a
monthly remote work stipend to offset the cost of internet, electricity,
etc., and a remote workspace budget to setup their workspace. Please
see our benefits page to learn more about benefits for team members
located in your country.
Our team works in a relaxed and educational environment to develop
excellent products for our clients. We work a sustainable pace of 40
hours/week. We also reserve at least 4 weeks per year for investing in
ourselves, the company, and our community. Everything we do is
predicated on having a great team and a culture of growing. We use the
latest technologies and are always down to try new methods on both
internal and client projects.
thoughtbot does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, color,
religion, age, national origin, marital status, disability, veteran
status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or any
other reason prohibited by law in provision of employment opportunities
and benefits.
thoughtbot does not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other
than directly from a candidate. Any unsolicited resumes not originating
directly from a candidate and sent to thoughtbot or any thoughtbot's
employees, including unsolicited resumes sent to a thoughtbot mailing
address or email address, are rejected. thoughtbot will NOT pay a fee
for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited resume.
thoughtbot considers any candidate for whom the recruiter has submitted
an unsolicited resume referred by the company free of any fees.