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• 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.
• 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.
• Must be available to start in November.
• 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
• Job qualifications
• Technical Skills
• Backend Development & Serverless: Experience developing backend applications using TypeScript and Node.js, leveraging the Serverless Framework for scalable and efficient deployments.
• AWS Architecture: Experience designing and implementing architectures using AWS services including Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB (including GSIs), SQS/SNS, EventBridge, and CloudWatch.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Experience with Terraform for managing and provisioning infrastructure.
• Event-Driven Architecture: Experience building event-driven systems, including state modeling, idempotent consumers, queues/DLQs, retry strategies with backoff, and self-healing mechanisms to ensure resilience.
• Language Proficiency: Portuguese (Fluent) and English (at least High Intermediate).
• Observability: Practical knowledge of setting up and utilizing logs, tracing, APM, metrics, alerts, monitors, dashboards, and runbooks.
• Caching: Experience with Redis and DynamoDB TTL (Time-to-Live).
• Dev Experience: Familiarity with branch policies, release playbooks, and feature flags.
• Technical Governance: Experience with architecture fitness functions (e.g., dependency-cruiser), mutation testing, and contract linting (Swagger/OpenAPI).
• Continuous Improvement: Enjoy continuously learning and improving, whether through functional programming paradigms, event-driven architecture, platform engineering, or others.
• Professional Skills
• Tech Lead/Mentorship: Acts as a Tech Lead (defining architecture, leading refinements, conducting PR reviews, and providing active mentorship for other backend developers/less experienced peers).
• Influencing & Advocacy: Experience influencing others and advocating for technical excellence while remaining open to change.
• Technical Vision & Impact: Ability to develop and execute a technical vision with a focus on business value (e.g., solutions that reduce operational costs, increase confidence, and enable predictable product evolution).
• Resilience: Resilient in ambiguous situations and capable of approaching challenges from multiple perspectives.
• Product-Tech Bridge: Helps translate business needs into software requirements.
• Cross-Team Enablement: Disseminates engineering and operation standards across teams.
• Stakeholder Alignment: Maintains continuous interface and alignment with Product, Payments, Channels, and SRE.
• Best Practices Champion: Champions and adopts best practices like writing clean and reusable code using TDD, pair programming, and design patterns.
• Full Cycle Ownership: Oversees or participates in the entire software delivery cycle, from ideation to evolution in production.
• Continuous Delivery: Uses and advocates for continuous delivery practices to deliver high-quality software and value quickly.
• Pragmatic Design: Designs solutions and chooses technologies that solve client problems while working within constraints and making pragmatic tradeoffs.
• Collaboration: Collaborates with various teammates to build features, design concepts, and interactive prototypes, ensuring best practices and UX specifications are embedded.
• Technology Advocacy: Applies the latest technology thinking from the Technology Radar.
• Hands-on Coding: Applies a variety of languages and tools and continues to code alongside Developers (not a post-technical role).
• DevSecOps: Efficiently utilizes and champions DevSecOps tools and practices to build and deploy software, advocating DevOps culture and shifting security left.
• Culture Building: Cultivates growth by encouraging feedback and fostering an inclusive, supportive team culture.
• Other things to know
• Learning & Development
• There is no one-size-fits-all career path at Thoughtworks: however you want to develop your career is entirely up to you. But we also balance autonomy with the strength of our cultivation culture. This means 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.
• About Thoughtworks
• Thoughtworks is a global technology consultancy that integrates strategy, design and engineering to drive digital innovation. For 30+ years, our clients have trusted our autonomous teams to build solutions that look past the obvious. Here, computer science grads come together with seasoned technologists, self-taught developers, midlife career changers and more to learn from and challenge each other. Career journeys flourish with the strength of our cultivation culture, which has won numerous awards around the world.

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