About the Role:
In this opportunity as Lead Software Engineer, you will:
Technical Leadership: Provide technical leadership to the backend development team, including guiding architectural decisions, reviewing code, and ensuring best practices are followed.
Development: Lead by example in writing high-quality, efficient, and maintainable code for backend systems. This includes designing, implementing, and testing new features and improvements.
Suggest Improvements: Continuously suggest improvements to the team's development process, tools, and technologies to enhance efficiency, scalability, and maintainability of the software.
Mentorship: Mentor junior and mid-level engineers, providing guidance on technical issues, best practices, and career development.
Collaboration: Collaborate with other team members, including frontend developers, product managers, and quality assurance engineers, to ensure seamless integration of backend systems with other components of the software.
Problem Solving: Proactively identify and resolve technical issues and challenges, leveraging your expertise and experience to find innovative solutions.
Documentation: Ensure that code, architecture, and processes are well-documented to facilitate knowledge sharing and future maintenance.
Project Management: Assist in project planning, prioritization, and estimation, providing technical insights and recommendations to ensure successful project delivery.
Stay Updated: Stay updated with the latest trends, technologies, and best practices in backend development, and incorporate them into the team's workflow when appropriate.
Communication: Maintain open and transparent communication within the team and with other stakeholders, providing regular updates on progress, challenges, and opportunities for improvement.
About You:
You are fit for the role of a Lead Software Engineer if your background includes:
What’s in it For You?
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.
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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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