Thomson Reuters U.S. Income Tax Compliance software is relied upon by the largest multi-national corporations and global accounting firms for theirs and their clients’ income tax filings. Our vision is to create the next generation of tax and accounting software that is no longer bound by the prior constraints upon storage and computational resources that have historically been a major factor in how we designed and implemented our platforms. We seek to add a talented, results oriented and innovative software engineer to our team who will help us extend our market leadership into the next generation of our software.

About The Role 

As a Lead Software Engineer, you will:

• Lead multiple and/or significant projects, programs, and business initiatives, showcasing creativity and ingenuity.
• Deliver comprehensive technical solutions and address complex, sometimes ambiguous problems.
• Set work priorities based on broad directions from management.
• Train and mentor team members, including Senior Software Engineers.
• Strategically focus on the development and testing of software systems or applications for enhancements and new products.
• Ensure the delivery of software features with outstanding quality, meeting specified release plans and commitments.
• Address problems of diverse scope where analysis of data requires evaluation of identifiable factors.
• Take ownership of a functional area, breaking down large requests into sub-tasks, providing higher-level status updates, writing test plans, and taking operational responsibility.
• Perform code reviews and participate in the development of technical/business strategies and new or enhanced technical tools.
• Set schedules for software engineering projects, define project parameters and tasks, and monitor project progress.
• Maintain and drive the "vision" of the project, leading others toward its completion.
• Resolve a wide range of issues in innovative ways.
• Own the development and rollout for an entire product or large project.
• Lead the daily activities of the assigned work group/team, recommend modifications to the operations of the assigned work group/team, and adjust short-term priorities as needed.

About You 

You are suited for this role if you have:

• Five or more years’ experience in a software engineering environment, including experience with co-located as well as geographically distributed teams.
• Strong experience with Microsoft C++, including MFC, Active X, COM, OLE and Win32. You will need to have strong object-oriented design and development skills. You possess a solid understanding of object-oriented programming, SOLID, DRY, DDD and core database design principles.
• Hands on experience in Web Application Technologies, Web API and Cloud Technologies.
• Working experience with web service troubleshooting tools like Postman, Fiddler.
• Good working knowledge of SQL, RDBMS databases.
• Awareness of CI/CD/DevOps concept and tools. Comfortable with the disciplines of Unit Testing and Test Automation. Worked in an environment in which releasable code is delivered every two weeks.
• Working experience with Git and GitFlow, pull requests, branching and merging of features across multiple releases and hot fixes.
• Whether via face-to-face discussion, phone, email, chat, white-boarding, or other collaboration platforms, you must be an effective communicator who can inform, explain, and coordinate, etc. • Willingness to learn and support our legacy codebase while the transition to our next generation is occurring.
• Ability to build and deliver hands-on technology proof-of-concepts and demonstrations • Experience working in Agile/Scrum team environments
• Results oriented. Detailed oriented. Driven. Take initiative without being asked.
• Bachelor’s Degree required.

This position is ideal for someone who thrives in leading software development efforts, enjoys mentoring others, and possesses the ability to drive projects forward.

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What's in it For You?
You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through:

• 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

• Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; work from another location for up to a total of 8 weeks in a year, 4 of those weeks can be out of the country and the remaining in the country, Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

• Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.

• Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters café networking.

• Social Impact: Ten employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact.

• Purpose Driven Work: We have a superpower that we’ve never talked about with as much pride as we should – we are one of the only companies on the planet that helps its customers pursue justice, truth and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

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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