Job Description

Thomson Reuters is looking to add a Senior Software Engineer to our Digital Experience Platform team in our Toronto offices. This challenging position requires someone to think independently, work well collaboratively across multiple disciplines, including working with a variety of technologies stacks (as required). It is an opportunity to work for a great company with smart people on large systems that are used worldwide.

About The Role

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will:
Communicate with product and business teams to gather and analyze the business requirement and translate it into technical design and prepare functional/technical specification documents.
Research and identify new software technologies that can be leveraged to improve application performance and development efficiency, reducing cost and maintaining quality, working closely with development leads.
Develop fullstack, high resilience web applications for news distribution and hosted content.
Develop low latency information management and processing system in the tax and legal worlds.
Provide creative and elegant solutions to complex problems.
Prepare technical specifications and documentation.
Participate in internal team and status meetings, in project planning sessions with team members to analyze development requirements, provide design options, and provide work breakdown and estimates of work.
Participate in software releases.
Work together with the your team and other teams to deliver high-grade, performant, well-documented and resilient features.
Work together with the Quality Assurance team to prepare test plans/test cases and define test execution methodology and perform tests. Identify and fix any defects.
Work together with the system operation team to ensure system stability and maintain high availability

Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent years of experience
2-4 years software development experience using Java, .NET, JavaScript, Python and other core languages across the technology industry.
Experience using Agile Methodologies primarily Scrum
Expert design skills including significant knowledge of core libraries and common design patterns
Strong attention to detail and ability to prioritize work effectively
Ability to write clean, readable code that is easy to understand
Expertise using Object Oriented design patterns and software development methodologies
Able to work cohesively with a team of 5-8 developers and testers.
Customer first approach to software development
Excellent written and verbal communication skills (ability to communicate effectively with technical staff, Business Analysts, management, and business team members)

Desired Experience

Front-end & Server-side programming technologies
Managing code and changes in a team environment to include experience with source control utilities, such as Git
Experience with Web technologies: React, AngularJS, CSS and HTML 5.
Experience with Adobe Experience Manager development.
Leadership skills with a track record of mentoring, setting technical goals, and delegating tasks
Strong troubleshooting and debugging experience
Working and interacting with a geographically and culturally diverse team
Experience with XML processing and transformations (XPath, XSLT, etc.)
Other experience: Tomcat, Hibernate/JPA, UML, .NET
Cloud technology experience(e.g. AWS, Azure), or Docker

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 25,000 employees across more than 75 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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