Senior Ruby on Rails Consultant- Remote

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 December 6th. Target start date for this role is early March.

Salary

Salary and benefits vary by location. We publish all of 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 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.

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.