Senior Software Engineer

As an employee at Thomson Reuters, you will play a role in shaping and leading the global knowledge economy. Our technology drives global markets and helps professionals around the world make decisions that matter.  Whether solving for today’s challenges or tomorrow’s aspirations, you will work with the industry’s brightest thinkers on diverse projects, creating next-generation solutions that deliver powerful results.   As the world’s leading provider of intelligent information, we want your unique perspective to create the solutions that advance our business—and your career.

We at Thomson Reuters Indirect Tax Group are responsible for a suite of highly available, 24 / 7, mission-critical products which enable our large-scale global customers to compute tax for every transaction that flows through their systems worldwide. The transactions ranged from online transactions generated from travel sites, e-commerce sites; transactions at points of sale for retail customers; transactions between participating businesses, across 190 countries worldwide.

Are you passionate about building large, scalable, highly available, 24 / 7 mission critical systems deployed in cloud? If so, come join us in our Hyderabad Office location, and help shape the future of the product and take it to new heights.

About the Role
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be responsible for

• Implementing new product features, enhancements, redesign of existing product functions, troubleshooting and resolving product defects, unit and integration testing. 
• Some of the key tasks you will perform: 
•  Designing object-oriented and service-oriented architectures 
•  Programming and unit testing of code based upon design sessions with internal software users, customer-reported issues, and input from Business System Analysts, Marketing, Professional Services, and Support Unit and performance testing of features as part of development cycle 
• Developing and re-factoring existing products, providing product enhancements, and resolving product defects to meet customer issues.
• Providing technical expertise and peer code reviews to other team members 
• Writing technical specifications, program documentation, and unit test plans for all work performed 
• Developing and supporting applications in multi-cloud platform. 
• Assisting in Quality Assurance process and customer issue resolution 
• Partnering with Quality Assurance to drive high-quality, on-time deliverables.

About You
You’re a fit for the role of Software Engineer if you have: 

• 5+ years professional experience designing, developing, deploying Java based applications. 
• Strong working knowledge with Object-Oriented Analysis, Design, and Implementation 
• Experience with advanced Open-Source technologies such as Java, Spring boot, Hibernate, Gradle and technologies required. 
• Experience with relational database systems, e.g. Oracle, PostgreSQL and ORM tools like Hibernate and JPA framework.
• Experience with JSON parsing. Serialization and Deserialization. 
• Experience working with cloud native applications, understanding of design patterns for scalability, performance, and reliability.
• Experience building API services using: REST, SOAP, deployed in a distributed environment, and good understanding of related concepts like distributed caching.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum development methodologies to deliver high end applications against strict timelines, have strong understanding of agile principles.
• Experience working with cross functional and remote teams.
• Eager to learn and willingness to take initiatives.
•  Bachelor’s Degree in computer science or equivalent work experience 
• Prior work experience in migration of JVM, dependent libraries and underlying platforms. 
• Experience in developing applications in AWS cloud or any other cloud platform. 
• Any experience in Containerized platform engineering tools like HELM, k8s etc. 
• Any Experience in messaging tools like Kafka, AVRO schema   
• Proven strong analytical design and trouble-shooting skills.
• Highly accountable for meeting all commitments and deadlines. 
• Effective communication skills, both written and verbal for technical and non-technical audiences 
• Must be able to work independently as well as collaboratively.
• Drive for continuous process improvement 

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.

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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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