Lead Software Engineer:
We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Lead Software Engineer to join our dynamic team. As a key member of our team, you will contribute to the development of innovative cutting-edge solutions, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and driving the delivery of new products and features that meet our customer needs.
About the Role:
- Work closely with business partners and stakeholders to identify requirements and prioritize new enhancements and features
- Collaborate with software engineers, architects, technical management, and business partners across geographical and organizational boundaries
- Assist in architecture direction and finalize design with Architects
- Break down deliverables into meaningful stories for the development team
- Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and coaching to software or systems engineering teams
- Share knowledge and best practices on using new and emerging technologies
- Provide technical support to operations or other development teams by troubleshooting, debugging, and solving critical issues
- Interpret code and solve problems based on existing standards
- Create and maintain technical documentation related to assigned components
About You:
To be successful in this role, you should have:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent experience
- 7+ years of professional software development experience
- Strong technical skills, including:
- Python programming (3+ years)
- AWS experience with EKS/Kubernetes
- Experience with LLMs, AI Solutions, and evaluation
- Understanding of agentic systems and workflows
- Experience with Retrieval Systems leveraging tools like OpenSearch
- Experience with event-driven/asynchronous programming
- Experience with high-concurrency systems
- Experience with CI/CD using GitHub Actions and AWS services (Code Pipeline/Code Build)
- Strong understanding of Microservices and RESTful APIs
- FastAPI
- Celery
- Data Engineering background
- Experience with AWS services (Redis, DynamoDB, S3, SQS, Kinesis, KMS, IAM, Secret Manager, etc.)
- Performance optimization and security practices
- Self-driven with ability to work with minimal direction
- Strong context-switching abilities
- Problem-solving mindset
- Clear communication
- Strong documentation habits
- Attention to detail
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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:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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What We Do
Thomson Reuters (NYSE / TSX: TRI) informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. The company serves professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Its products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news. For more information, visit tr.com.
