Lead Developer Python & Kafka

Role Description

Senior Software Developers collaborate with Business and Quality Analysts, Designers, Project Managers and more to design software solutions that will create meaningful change for our clients. They listen thoughtfully to understand the context of a business problem and write clean and iterative code to deliver a powerful end result whilst consistently advocating for better engineering practices. By balancing strong opinions with a willingness to find the right answer, Senior Software Developers bring integrity to technology, ensuring all voices are heard.

For a team to thrive, it needs collaboration and room for healthy, respectful debate. Senior Developers are the technologists who cultivate this environment while driving teams toward delivering on an aspirational tech vision and acting as mentors for more junior-level consultants. You will leverage deep technical knowledge to solve complex business problems and proactively assess your team’s health, code quality and nonfunctional requirements.

Job Responsibilities

• You will learn and adopt best practices like writing clean and reusable code using TDD, pair programming and design patterns.
• 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 work in collaborative, value-driven teams to build innovative customer experiences for our clients.
• You will create large-scale distributed systems out of microservices.
• 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 efficiently utilize DevSecOps tools and practices to build and deploy software, advocating devops culture and shifting security left in development.
• You will oversee or take part in the entire cycle of software consulting and delivery from ideation to deployment and everything in between.
• You will act as a mentor for less-experienced peers through both your technical knowledge and leadership skills.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with the full stack - Python, Kafka, Kubernetes, Terraform - along with solid grounding in Object-Oriented Programming.
• You have experience and/or certifications in Thought Machine or Core Bancario de 4ta Generación.
• You have proven ability to write high-quality, well-tested, maintainable code.
• You are comfortable with Agile methodologies, such as Extreme Programming (XP), Scrum and/or Kanban.
• You have strong understanding of TDD, continuous integration, and continuous delivery practices.
• Bonus points if you have working knowledge of cloud technology such as AWS, Azure, and Docker.

Requirements

• You enjoy influencing others and always advocate for technical excellence while being open to change when needed.
• Presence in the external tech community: you willingly share your expertise with others via speaking engagements, contributions to open source, blogs and more.
• You’re resilient in ambiguous situations and can approach challenges from multiple perspectives.

Benefits

• There is no one-size-fits-all career path at Thoughtworks: however you want to develop your career is entirely up to you.
• Your career is supported by interactive tools, numerous development programs and teammates who want to help you grow.
• We see value in helping each other be our best and that extends to empowering our employees in their career journeys.

Company Description

Thoughtworks is a dynamic and inclusive community of bright and supportive colleagues who are revolutionizing tech. As a leading technology consultancy, we’re pushing boundaries through our purposeful and impactful work. For 30+ years, we’ve delivered extraordinary impact together with our clients by helping them solve complex business problems with technology as the differentiator. Bring your brilliant expertise and commitment for continuous learning to Thoughtworks. Together, let’s be extraordinary.