Lead Software Engineer

Posted:
8/18/2024, 5:00:00 PM

Location(s):
Karnataka, India ⋅ Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Experience Level(s):
Expert or higher ⋅ Senior

Field(s):
Software Engineering

Workplace Type:
Hybrid

Lead Software Development Engineers work across the end-to-end software development life cycle and apply modern software development practices when defining, designing, building, testing and delivering software and services to users. Lead Software Engineers effectively collaborate with cross functional teams including senior stakeholders to deliver on projects. You will utilize your deep technical expertise and skillset by representing software development engineering in overall project management by specifying and driving progress towards development activities, milestones, and timelines.

About the Role

In this role, As a Lead Software Engineer, you will:

  • Be a Technical Leader – provide thought leadership and guidance in setting the vision and direction to deliver customer-facing research products. Work with technology teams and beyond to realize their implementation. Research and recommend industry standards and best practices.
  • Be an efficient Stakeholder Manager - engage, collaborate, and influence peers, senior management, junior engineers, and business partners. Act as point of contact in resolving stakeholder issues.
  • Be a Team Player – ability to work in a collaborative and inclusive team-oriented environment, partner with cross functional and remote teams, draw out strong design ideas from diverse teams and high performing engineers, and translate requirements into actionable development items.
  • Be a Decision Maker - make quick and effective data driven decisions, with good problem solving and analytical skills to infer qualitative and quantitative data, while recognizing and communicating tradeoffs.
  • Be an Effective Communicator – ability to articulate complex technical issues concisely; ability to target your audience, actively listen, and value diverse ideas.
  • Be an Agile Person – with a strong sense of urgency and a desire to work in a fast-paced dynamic environment to deliver solutions against strict timelines. Be Curious & Innovative – ability to question the status quo. Continuously update yourself with industry trends, next generation technology, and software development best practices.

About you:

You’re a fit for the role of a Lead Software Engineer, .NET Development if you have:

  • Have 10+years relevant experience, where in 4+ years as a software development lead
  • Experience partnering with product owners, UX designers, architects, and technology leaders to establish, promote, and advance development strategies and best practices.
  • Knowledge of Design Patterns and Agile software development methodologies Hands-on experience designing and delivering robust, high-volume, highly reliable, and highly available web products for use in customer-facing applications considering user experience, security, accessibility, internationalization, responsiveness, analytics, maintainability, and testability concerns.
  • Experienced in Programming languages such as C#, VB.NET, Groovy, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, and HTML. Good working knowledge in JavaScript libraries such as React, Redux, Underscore, and component libraries.
  • Hands-on with Node.js and ADO.NET
  • Familiarity with AWS, Azure, Cloud, Angular, CSS/SASS, building custom Web Components, and REST.
  • Experience with Testing Frameworks such as Jest, QUnit, Jasmine, Karma.
  • Exposure to Microsoft SQL Server 2019, MongoDB, NoSQL Databases
  • Proficiency in IDEs such as Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, Webstorm, Eclipse, IntelliJ Robust analytical skills with the ability to synthesize business requirements with technology capabilities to produce coherent software development and technical designs.
  • Ability to articulate technical strategy, value, and risks to technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Strong written and verbal communication experience including cultural and language awareness.
  • Passion to coach others.
  • Keep abreast of industry trends, best practices, new technologies, and software development techniques.
  • Have a bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or related field.

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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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Thomson Reuters Corporation

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Headquarter Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Employee Count: 10001+

Year Founded: 1977

IPO Status: Public

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