Senior Software Engineer – Reuters Technology

Senior Software Engineer

Interested in solving real-world problems with Generative AI? Thomson Reuters is leveraging this technology to revolutionize news creation and publishing. This role in the News Technology Group builds tools that support Reuters' award-winning journalists. As AI advances, it promises to bring significant efficiencies to news production.

The position will deal with incorporating AI capabilities in our Editorial tools and processes, enabling journalists to realize these efficiencies and provide greater insight over a broad range of topics.

About the Role

In this opportunity as Senior Software Developer, you will:

• Participate in project/work planning sessions to analyze requirements.
• Contribute to requirements gathering, in collaboration with capability/product and/or business owners.
• Develop and integrate applications per written specifications. May be responsible for writing design specifications and architectural diagrams.
• Translate technical requirements into application code and modules.
• Make modifications to existing applications and modules in accordance with written specifications.
• Unit test and implement application modules they have developed or modified, ensuring application meets needs of business.
• Take part in reviews of own work and the work of colleagues.
• Support operational teams with system maintenance, such as upgrading, fall back, troubleshooting, etc.

About You

You’re a fit for the role of Senior Software Developer if your background includes:

• A passion for evaluating and adopting new technologies.
• 8+ years’ experience working as a software developer.
• A Bachelors or higher in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or related discipline.
• Self-motivated, co-operative team member abilities.
• The ability to work with global teams in a squad-oriented organization.
• Excellent communication skills, including written and spoken English.
• Strong and demonstrable programming skills in one or more modern computer languages such as, but not limited to, C#, Python, JavaScript, Node.js or REACT.
• Demonstrable analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Knowledge and experience with data representation formats such as XML and JSON.
• Knowledge of cloud technologies, preferably AWS.
• Familiarity with ML/AI techniques
• Familiarity with design patterns.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies.
• Familiarity with Security design and practice.

Desired Skills:

• Experience with Prompt Engineering.
• Experience building Web Services.
• Experience developing cloud-based solutions, preferably in AWS, notably Lambda, SNS/SQS, S3, ECS, EC2.
• Experience with containers (Docker) and container orchestration and management.
• Experience in development of networked services (TCP, UDP, HTTP, etc.).
• Experience with .NET Core.
• Experience with C++ development.
• Experience with CI/CD.
• Experience with Automated Unit Testing.
• Experience with Elasticsearch and other NoSQL databases.
• Experience with MS SQL and/or MySQL.
• Experience with Linux or Unix.
• Experience with UX development.
• Low Latency Programming Concepts and Techniques.
• Asynchronous Programming and Threading Concepts.

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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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