Senior Ruby on Rails Consultant- Remote

Join a team of consultants dedicated to creating products people love as a Remote Senior Ruby on Rails Software Developer.

We're growing and looking for an experienced technical leader with significant Ruby On Rails experience to join our consulting team as a Senior Ruby on Rails Consultant.

You’ll primarily work directly with clients on projects 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 partner closely with product managers, designers, developers, and clients to help solve 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 and blog content is the result of investment time.

This is a fully remote position on our EMEA team. We focus on embedding with technical teams to address technical debt, implementing process improvements, mentoring and upskilling client teams, as well as creating great early stage products with founders.

This is a position is open to applicants who currently reside in Ireland, Nigeria, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, and United Kingdom.

We will begin reviewing applications no sooner than 10 November 2025.

Locations & Compensation:

This is a fully remote position and is open to applicants currently living in and authorized to work in the following locations: Ireland, Nigeria, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, and United Kingdom. 

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

Senior thoughtbot consultants are able to build high-quality, test-driven applications with Ruby on Rails and JavaScript (or TypeScript). Well-qualified candidates will have an excellent knowledge of refactoring, application architecture, performance tuning, debugging, design patterns, Extreme Programming (XP), and working effectively in legacy applications.

In addition to Rails, our clients often have frontend needs in JavaScript, TypeScript, and Elm, including frameworks like React and Stimulus. Experience with JavaScript and TypesScript is a must, and an interest in a continuing frontend education is a plus. As consultants, we work closely with our clients. Experience with a client-facing role like consulting, teaching, or business development is also valuable, but not required.

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.