Software Engineer

Job Description

As a Software Engineer, you will design, build, and maintain high-quality software in an agile, collaborative environment. You will translate business requirements into technical solutions, deliver performant and resilient features, and deepen your technical expertise while helping shape how the team uses modern development tools, including AI-assisted coding. Exceptional attention to detail, strong analytical skills, and excellent communication are essential to success in this role.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with product and business teams to gather and analyze requirements, and translate them into technical designs and functional/technical specifications.
• Research and evaluate emerging software technologies that can improve application performance and development efficiency while reducing cost and maintaining quality.
• Develop creative, elegant solutions to complex technical problems.
• Prepare technical specifications and documentation.
• Participate in team meetings, status updates, and project planning sessions to analyze development requirements, propose design options, and provide work breakdowns and estimates.
• Build and maintain RESTful Web APIs and related services.
• Participate in software releases and support production stability.
• Collaborate with Quality Assurance to prepare test plans and test cases, execute tests, and identify and resolve defects.
• Work with the system operations team to ensure system stability and high availability.
• Use AI-assisted development tools to support coding, testing, refactoring, debugging, and documentation, and critically review all generated code for correctness, maintainability, security, and performance.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 2–4 years of professional software development experience.
• Hands-on experience with C#/.NET Core, Node.js, or Python.
• Experience building and maintaining RESTful Web APIs.
• Experience with cloud-based development, preferably AWS.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.
• Familiarity with CI/CD, Git, code reviews, debugging, logging, and production support.
• Working knowledge of common software design patterns.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with technical staff, business analysts, management, and business stakeholders.
• Strong attention to detail and the ability to prioritize work effectively.
• Customer-first approach to software development.
• Interest in AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, or ChatGPT, with the ability to validate their output.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with AWS services in production environments.
• Experience with both C#/.NET Core and Node.js or Python.
• Hands-on experience using AI-assisted development tools in day-to-day coding, testing, or documentation work.
• Experience with test automation and collaborating closely with QA teams.
• Background in transaction tax, tax technology, or other enterprise software environments.
• Demonstrated curiosity for new technologies, with examples of introducing tools or practices that improved team efficiency.

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What’s in it For You?

• Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment 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.

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