Senior Software Engineer
Thomson Reuters1 day ago
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, deploy, monitor, troubleshoot, and support scalable backend services, REST APIs, and microservices.
- Build and evolve distributed systems using asynchronous messaging, event-driven architecture, service-to-service communication, caching, resiliency, and fault-tolerant design patterns.
- Own technical solutions end to end, including requirements analysis, solution design, implementation, automated testing, deployment, monitoring, troubleshooting, and production support.
- Design and optimize PostgreSQL databases through schema design, migrations, indexing, query tuning, data integrity, concurrency, and performance optimization.
- Collaborate with Product, Architecture, DevOps, Security, and other engineering teams to translate business requirements into maintainable technical solutions.
- Improve engineering quality through code reviews, automated testing, observability, secure development practices, performance optimization, and continuous improvement.
- Provide technical guidance, mentoring, and knowledge sharing to engineers.
Requirements
- Professional experience building and supporting production backend applications.
- Strong hands-on experience with Java, Spring Boot, AWS Cloud, and PostgreSQL.
- Experience designing and developing REST APIs, microservices, and distributed systems.
- Experience owning software across development, automated testing, deployment, monitoring, troubleshooting, and production support.
- Ability to independently solve complex technical problems and balance scalability, reliability, maintainability, security, and delivery needs.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience providing technical guidance, mentoring, code reviews, or knowledge sharing within an engineering team.
- Preferred: experience with Python, FastAPI, AWS SQS, AWS SNS, Apache Kafka, Redis, containerization, orchestration, GitHub Actions, Terraform, observability, performance engineering, and AI-assisted engineering tools or AI capabilities.
Benefits
- Flexible hybrid work model for office-based roles.
- Flexible work arrangements, including the ability to work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year.
- Career development, continuous learning, and skills-first growth programming.
- Comprehensive benefits including flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days, Headspace access, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee 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
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