Role Overview
Lead Developers act as the primary point of contact for our clients, ensuring that teams are successful in their delivery. In this role, you will bring a strategic mindset to projects and spend time collaborating and negotiating with clients to bring a technical vision to life. Having a balance of high-level and tactical mindsets is a must, as you will spend time both with clients and your teammates. We are looking for a Software Developer with strong Spanish language proficiency to work in a client environment where a significant portion of the communication, requirements, and documentation are in Spanish. The ideal candidate should be able to understand technical and business discussions in Spanish and effectively collaborate with English-speaking delivery teams.
At Thoughtworks, we believe in going above and beyond the standard and are committed to delivering best-in-class solutions that exceed our clients' expectations. Our standard engineering and delivery practices reflect our commitment to quality, and our team is always looking to innovate and improve. Lead Developers guide and coach their teams in their implementation and application.
Job responsibilities
- You will champion and adopt best practices like writing clean and reusable code using TDD, pair programming and design patterns
- You will oversee or take part in the entire cycle of software consulting and delivery from ideation to evolution in production and everything in between
- 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 design solutions and choose technologies that solve clients’ problems while working within constraints and make pragmatic tradeoffs
- 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 wayYou will apply the latest technology thinking from our Technology Radar to solve client problems
- You will apply a variety of languages and tools to your work and continue to code alongside Developers; you will not be post-technical in this role
- You will efficiently utilize and champion DevSecOps tools and practices to build and deploy software, advocating devops culture and shifting security left in development
- You will cultivate Thoughtworker growth and development by encouraging feedback and fostering an inclusive, supportive team culture
- Develop and maintain software solutions in an Agile delivery environment.
- Understand and interpret Jira stories, requirements, technical documentation, and presentations written in Spanish.
- Participate in discussions with Spanish-speaking customers and stakeholders.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
- Communicate customer requirements, decisions, and context effectively to English-speaking teams.
- Support requirement clarification, solution design, and delivery activities.
Technical Skills
- You have 8 to 15 years of experience in mandatory skills Java, Springboot, Kafka & Kubernetes are comfortable with the latest Object-Oriented technology.
- You have strong experience working with cloud platforms Aws, Azure or GCP.
- You have led software development teams using Agile, Lean and/or Continuous
- Knowledge of delivery approaches such as TDD, continuous integration, pairing and infrastructure automation
- You enjoy continuously learning and improving, whether it is through functional programming paradigms, event driven architecture, platform engineering or others<