Job Description for Lead Software Engineer

As an employee at Thomson Reuters, you will play a role in shaping and leading the global knowledge economy. Our technology drives global markets and helps professionals around the world make decisions that matter. Whether solving for today’s challenges or tomorrow’s aspirations, you will work with the industry’s brightest thinkers on diverse projects, creating next-generation solutions that deliver powerful results. As the world’s leading provider of intelligent information, we want your unique perspective to create the solutions that advance our business—and your career.

As a member of Thomson Reuters’ Audit Technology team, you will work to build the next generation of our Confirmation product. You will influence new technical solutions, processes, and methodologies.

Within our agile team, you will be responsible for leading the development of new features and enhancing the infrastructure of Confirmation – a popular system for audit and verification of deposit use cases. This work will involve delivering new code, deploying services, and ensuring that we are building with regard to architectural cleanliness. You are empowered to try new approaches and learn new technologies. Your work will benefit customers who need to save time and yet also feel guaranteed they are not making errors as a result.

About the Role

As a Lead Software Engineer, you will:

Show Leadership – lead a small team of developers to deliver features on time by giving solid technical direction.Build and Develop – software applications by understanding user needs, writing well-designed code, conducting validation/testing and executing full SDLC from design through releaseBe a Team Player – work in a collaborative team-oriented environment, share information, value diverse ideas, partner with cross functional and remote teamsBe Curious & Innovative – continuously update yourself with next generation technology, development tools, and contribute to process development practicesBe an Agile Person – with a strong sense of urgency and a desire to work in a fast-paced dynamic environment to deliver solutions against strict timelinesBe an Effective Communicator – articulate complex technical issues, and share ideas, participate in peer-reviews, and exhibit strong listening skillsTake Ownership – responsible for performance, reliability and implement changes for improving the efficiency of a technical componentOur Technology Stack - we're building the next generation of the Confirmation platform with C#/.NET Core, Angular, PostgreSQL, Docker, Kubernetes, MS Orleans, GraphQL, and deploying into AWS.

About You

You’re a fit for the role of a Lead Software Engineer if you have:

About 8+ years progressive experience as a developer and have led projects end to end, so you have hands-on experience coding, and you know how to influence decisions and give technical direction to team members.Strived for architectural cleanliness and can identify ways to improve the overall system and fit those into a product road-map.An interest in using the right database for the job - NoSQL is nice, but you also know the difference between inner and outer joins.Knowledge of RESTful API and probably built many of them using popular frameworks.Understanding of cloud native applications and have deployed one in AWS (or another cloud service).You understand design patterns for scalability, performance, and reliability.Thrived in a positive, collaborative environment with your great communication skills. You believe in the value of iterating together toward a common goal and have worked in an agile environment to do so.Are eager to learn new technologies but also want to understand the business problems we are trying to solve. To do so, you are willing to question the status quo to find a more optimal solution to existing processes.Experience coaching junior and mid-level engineersExperience working with cross functional and remote teamsExperience with test-driven development and automated testing frameworks

Desired Qualifications

Strong experience with C# and .NET Core frameworkStrong experience with a JavaScript framework, such as AngularExperience implementing with AWS or Azure cloud platform servicesExperience with Postgres or similar relational databasesDesign, development, and scaling of REST and GraphQL APIsExperience building microservices with orchestrators like Kubernetes or Docker SwarmHands-on experience with security vulnerability scanning tools (Qualys, SonarQube, Snyk)Working experience with GitExperience delivering AI/ML solutions

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What’s in it For You?

Join us to inform the way forward with the latest AI solutions and address real-world challenges in legal, tax, compliance, and news. Backed by our commitment to continuous learning and market-leading benefits, you’ll be prepared to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future. This includes:

Industry-Leading Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, and hybrid model, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.

Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.

Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for inclusion, innovation, and customer-focus. Our eleven business resource groups nurture our culture of belonging across the diverse backgrounds and experiences represented across our global footprint.

Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.

Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.

Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we’ve been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world’s most global news services – Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward. 

Accessibility 

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.

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