Lead Software Engineer
Thomson Reuters1 day ago
Base Salary
$118k - $220k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain external and internal APIs, microservices, and backend platforms using C#, .NET, and ASP.NET Core.
- Build scalable, secure, highly available services for customer-facing products, third-party integrations, and enterprise workflows.
- Lead microservice architecture design, including service decomposition, API contracts, event-driven patterns, observability, resiliency, and performance optimization.
- Design and implement cloud-native solutions using containerization, orchestration, infrastructure automation, monitoring, and continuous delivery practices.
- Develop modern web applications with Angular, TypeScript, HTML, CSS, component-based architecture, state management, routing, and API integration.
- Translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions and implementation plans with product, architecture, UX, and engineering teams.
- Drive code quality, test automation, CI/CD, Agile delivery, architecture reviews, code reviews, and engineering standards.
- Own technical design decisions and mentor engineers across the team.
- Define testing strategies covering unit, integration, API, automation, and quality-gate requirements.
- Implement secure coding practices, remediate vulnerabilities, address penetration-test findings, and support security and regulatory compliance.
- Use AI-assisted development tools to improve productivity, code quality, testing, troubleshooting, and documentation responsibly.
Requirements
- 10+ years of professional software development experience with significant hands-on expertise in C#, .NET, ASP.NET Core, API development, and distributed systems.
- Experience designing, developing, and supporting external and internal REST APIs for customers, partners, and internal applications.
- Strong experience building and operating microservices architectures, including communication patterns, scalability, resiliency, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
- Hands-on experience developing in public cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
- Strong proficiency with Angular and TypeScript, including component-based architecture, state management, routing, and API integration.
- Experience with containerization and deployment technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, or AKS.
- Understanding of observability, logging, monitoring, distributed tracing, fault tolerance, and operational excellence.
- Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps practices for automated build, deployment, testing, and release management.
- Experience with relational databases, SQL, Entity Framework, data access patterns, and API-centric application design.
- Experience using Git and GitHub for source control and collaborative development.
- Preferred experience with C++ development, customer-facing platforms, SaaS applications, developer platforms, or public API ecosystems.
- Preferred experience with event-driven architectures, asynchronous messaging, Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS, SNS, or similar messaging frameworks.
- Preferred knowledge of API gateways, OAuth, OpenID Connect, JWT, and API lifecycle management.
- Strong communication, mentoring, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Benefits
- Flexible hybrid work model for office-based roles.
- Work-from-anywhere flexibility for up to 8 weeks per year and supportive work-life balance policies.
- Career development, continuous learning, skills development, and Grow My Way programming.
- Comprehensive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance benefits, plus retirement savings with company match.
- Flexible vacation, paid sick and safe time off, paid holidays, parental leave, sabbatical leave, and two company-wide mental health days.
- Access to Headspace, Employee Assistance Program, fitness reimbursement, tuition reimbursement, flexible spending and health savings accounts, commuter benefits, and a 529 plan.
- Employee incentive programs, employee stock purchase plan, adoption and surrogacy assistance, and optional insurance programs.
- Two paid volunteer days annually and opportunities for pro-bono consulting and ESG initiatives.
Tech Stack
AngularApache KafkaAWSAzureC#C++CSSDockerGitGoogle Cloud PlatformHTMLKubernetes.NETRabbitMQSQLTypeScript
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.