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.

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 way.
- You 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

- You are well‑versed in Java and comfortable with the latest Object‑Oriented technology.
- Experience with Gradle.
- Experience with Claude or other equivalent AI tool.
- Experience in GitHub Actions and Datadog.
- 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.
- Knowledge of cloud technology such as AWS, Docker or Kubernetes.
- You enjoy continuously learning and improving, whether it is through functional programming paradigms, event‑driven architecture, platform engineering or others.
- English advanced.

Professional Skills

- You have experience influencing others and always advocate for technical excellence while being open to change when needed.
- You bridge product and technology by helping to translate business needs to software requirements.
- You have the ability to develop and execute a technical vision with a focus on business value.
- You will act as a mentor for less experienced peers through both your technical knowledge and ability to inspire a team to deliver extraordinary impact together.
- You’re resilient in ambiguous situations and can approach challenges from multiple perspectives.

Other things to know

Learning & Development

There is no one‑size‑fits‑all career path; you determine your own development journey, supported by interactive tools, development programs and teammates who help you grow.

Onsite Work Expectation

You may be expected to work out of our Thoughtworks office or at a client’s office location for all five working days of the week, depending on business or clients’ needs.

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📌 Lead Developer IA and Java (Lima)
🏢 Thoughtworks
📍 Lima