Join a team dedicated to creating products people love to use as a remote Senior Ruby on Rails Consultant

Join a team of consultants dedicated to improving existing products and teams as a Remote Senior Ruby on Rails Consultant.

We're growing and looking for an experienced developer with significant Ruby on Rails experience to join our team as a Senior Developer Consultant.

You’ll work directly with clients to find ways to improve 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 work closely with our clients, other developers, product managers, and designers to help solve unique 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 using AI to help solve 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 existing technical teams to address our clients' technical debt, implement process improvements, and mentor and upskill 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

About thoughtbot

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 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 a consultant, you will work directly with our clients. Experience with a client-facing role like consulting, teaching, or business development is also valuable, but not required.

Though we prefer engagements with multiple thoughtbot consultants working alongside one another, senior consultants may be the only thoughtbotter on a client engagement, and therefore, need to be able to lead a project.

Versatility in at least one other area is tremendously helpful. It’s a plus if you have strong experience in either full-stack JavaScript or 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.

Our goal is to provide ourselves with the best possible benefits, tools to use, and environments to work in while staying sustainable. We've shared the details of all our benefits, along with all our salary bands in our compensation calculator, and our career paths.