Lead Software Engineer

Engineers work across the end-to-end software development life cycle and apply modern software development practices when defining, designing, building, testing and delivering software and services.

About the role:

• As part of our Tech team in India you will have opportunity to work on large scale complex projects using cutting edge technology, as well as having a direct impact on customers around the world. We are looking for a software engineer who can be responsible for designing and developing applications and solutions. You will also analyze product requirements and develop technical specifications, implement application code based on detailed designs, test and debug programs, maintain system quality through continuous integration, automated testing, and performance monitoring. As part of our team, you'll also ensure best practices are followed, including writing unit tests, participating in code reviews, pair programming, and contributing to the broader engineering community. This position requires strong analytical thinking, problem solving skills, attention to detail, and effective communication.

About You:

In this opportunity as Lead Software Engineer, you will:

• Work closely with the Product Manager, Architect, Scrum Master, business stakeholders, other teams within the organization to gather requirements, understand use cases and define development backlog.
• Provide high level technical guidance to the team members and mentor them to help them grow technically.
• Participate in code reviews, provide feedback and recommend changes.
• Perform peer review of code and provide feedback.
• Help drive the release planning process by working with scrum master, developer and QA engineers.
• Develop and own software modules and features end-to-end, driving them successfully into production.
• Demonstrate agile/lean mindset throughout the entire software delivery lifecycle.
• Actively participate in sprint planning, daily standups, sprint demos and retrospectives.
• Maintain all necessary CI/CD steps (GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps) to deliver changes with high confidence of quality with streamlined effort.
• Deliver value to customers through design and implementation of new software modules and features.
• Ensure optimal performance, scalability, reliability, and accessibility of software applications and solutions.
• Design and develop automated tests and perform manual testing to ensure functionality, performance, security, and usability of software applications and solutions.
• Ensure adherence to established coding standards, best practices, and design patterns.
• Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams, such as product management, user experience, and operations, to ensure successful delivery of software applications and solutions.
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What's in it For You?

You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through:

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

Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; work from another location for up to a total of 8 weeks in a year, 4 of those weeks can be out of the country and the remaining in the country, Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.

Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters café networking.

Social Impact: Ten employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact.

Purpose Driven Work: We have a superpower that we’ve never talked about with as much pride as we should – we are one of the only companies on the planet that helps its customers pursue justice, truth and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

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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