Job Description

Thomson Reuters is seeking a motivated and talented Software Engineer to join our engineering team. In this role, you will help design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain scalable software systems and applications used by customers around the world.

You will collaborate with experienced engineers, product owners, architects, and other stakeholders to deliver reliable, high-quality solutions. This is an excellent opportunity for an early-career engineer who enjoys solving complex technical problems, writing clean code, learning new technologies, and contributing to large-scale distributed systems in a collaborative Agile environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with engineers, mentors, product owners, architects, and cross-functional stakeholders to build scalable, reliable, and high-performing software solutions.
• Contribute to the design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance of software features and applications.
• Write clean, maintainable, well-documented, and well-tested code in accordance with established engineering standards and best practices.
• Participate actively in code reviews, debugging, testing, and quality-improvement activities.
• Support the delivery of software solutions by analyzing requirements and translating them into effective technical implementations.
• Identify technical issues, troubleshoot defects, and assist in implementing timely and sustainable resolutions.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, retrospectives, backlog refinement, and team discussions.
• Work with the team to improve software quality, reliability, security, performance, scalability, and integration capabilities.
• Contribute to automated testing, CI/CD processes, version-control workflows, and deployment practices.
• Continuously expand technical knowledge by learning new programming languages, tools, technologies, and software development practices.
• Foster a collaborative, innovative, inclusive, and learning-focused team environment.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Experience with software development through academic coursework, internships, personal projects, open-source contributions, or team-based projects.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language; Java experience is strongly preferred.
• Basic understanding of the software development lifecycle, including requirements analysis, design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance.
• Foundational knowledge of object-oriented programming, software design patterns, architectural principles, and system design concepts.
• Understanding of core software engineering principles, including scalability, reliability, security, integration, and testing.
• Familiarity with relational database management systems and fundamental database concepts.
• Exposure to version-control systems, preferably Git.
• Familiarity with Agile development methodologies and collaborative software delivery practices.
• Exposure to automated testing and software quality-assurance practices.
• Ability to write clean, maintainable, testable, and well-documented code.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to troubleshoot technical issues effectively.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively across teams.
• Demonstrated ability to learn quickly, adapt to changing requirements, receive feedback constructively, and contribute in a fast-paced environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience or coursework involving Java-based application development.
• Interest in learning Scala and functional programming concepts.
• Exposure to microservices architecture, distributed systems, and service-oriented design.
• Familiarity with containerization technologies, such as Docker.
• Exposure to cloud platforms, cloud-native development, or modern application deployment practices.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
• Experience building RESTful APIs or integrating with external services.
• Experience with unit testing frameworks, integration testing, and test automation.
• Familiarity with monitoring, logging, observability, or production-support practices.
• Experience working on collaborative engineering projects using Agile practices.
• Demonstrated interest in building large-scale, customer-focused software products.

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What’s in it For You?

• 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.
• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.
• Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.
• Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
• Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.
• Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.
• Making a Real-World Impact: We are one of the few companies globally 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.

About Us

Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.

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. 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.

As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business 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 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. More information on requesting an accommodation here.

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