Lead Software Engineer
Thomson Reuters1 day ago
Colombo, Sri LankaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead the architecture, design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance of scalable software applications and distributed systems.
- Drive hands-on implementation of critical features and technical initiatives using Java and JVM-based technologies.
- Design resilient, secure, high-performing microservices-based solutions and make sound architectural decisions.
- Define coding standards, design principles, development practices, engineering standards, and quality gates.
- Conduct code reviews and improve code quality, performance, maintainability, and documentation.
- Establish testing strategies covering unit, integration, functional, and automated testing.
- Guide CI/CD pipelines, source control practices, automated deployments, and build processes.
- Mentor and coach engineers while promoting technical growth and knowledge sharing.
- Collaborate with product owners, architects, business stakeholders, and engineering teams on requirements and priorities.
- Identify technical risks, dependencies, and delivery challenges and implement mitigation plans.
- Ensure solutions align with enterprise standards for scalability, reliability, security, integration, and operational excellence.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- 7+ years of hands-on software development experience delivering scalable and reliable enterprise applications.
- Proven experience leading the design and delivery of complex software projects, distributed systems, or large-scale applications.
- Strong hands-on expertise in Java and solid experience with JVM-based development.
- Strong knowledge of object-oriented programming, software design patterns, system design, and architectural best practices.
- Experience designing and developing microservices-based applications.
- Hands-on experience with Docker and relational database management systems and SQL.
- Experience with Agile methodologies, software development lifecycle practices, CI/CD pipelines, source control, automated builds, and deployments.
- Strong understanding of automated testing frameworks and quality assurance practices.
- Demonstrated technical leadership, mentoring, code review, engineering standards, and execution-driving experience.
- Preferred qualifications include Scala or another JVM-based language, cloud platforms, Kubernetes, messaging platforms, event-driven architectures, API design, observability tools, and production-support practices.
- Experience in large enterprise environments or regulated industries is preferred.
- Excellent communication, collaboration, problem-solving, and stakeholder-management skills.
Benefits
- Flexible hybrid work model with two to three office days per week for office-based roles.
- Work from anywhere for up to eight weeks per year and other flexible work-life-balance policies.
- Career development, continuous learning, skills development, and Grow My Way programming.
- Comprehensive benefits including flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days, Headspace access, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, incentive programs, and wellbeing resources.
- Two paid volunteer days annually and opportunities for pro-bono consulting and ESG initiatives.
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About Thomson Reuters
Thomson Reuters builds research platforms, workflow software, and data services for legal, tax and accounting, compliance, and government professionals, and operates the Reuters global news service. Flagship products include Westlaw for legal research and ONESOURCE and Checkpoint for tax and accounting, sold primarily via subscriptions and enterprise licenses. A public company headquartered in Toronto, it was formed in 2008 by combining Thomson Corporation and Reuters Group and is listed on the TSX and Nasdaq as TRI.