Full-Time Senior Ruby on Rails Consultant

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.

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

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

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 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 closely with our clients. Experience with a client-facing role like consulting, teaching, or business development is also valuable, but not required.

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.