Senior Software Engineer, Reuters

Are you ready to shape the future of news delivery with cutting-edge technology? Join the Reuters News Agency technology team, where you will harness the power of generative AI and machine learning to revolutionize content creation, enrichment, and discovery. In this pivotal role as a Senior Software Engineer, you will develop and enhance business-critical applications and services that deliver impactful news text, photos, and videos globally. Be at the forefront of technology, addressing real-world challenges and shaping the future of news delivery with innovative solutions.

About the Role

In this opportunity as Senior Software Engineer, you will:

• Communicate with product and business owners to analyze requirements, translating into technical design and preparing functional/technical specification documents.
• Research and identifying new technologies that can be leveraged to address business critical problems, improve application performance, reducing cost and maintain quality.
• Develop and enhancing software systems that handle content creation, enrichment and delivery on a massive scale with low latency.
• Collaborate 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 closely with the system operations team to ensure system stability and maintain high availability 24/7/365.

About You

You’re a fit for the role of Senior Software Engineer if your background includes:

• A passion for evaluating and adopting new technologies.
• 5+ years’ experience working as a software developer.
• A bachelor’s or higher degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or related discipline.
• Self-motivated, cooperative team member abilities.
• The ability to work with global teams in a squad-oriented organization.
• Excellent communication skills, including written and spoken English.
• Demonstrable analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong and demonstrable programming skills in one or more modern computer languages such as Python, Java and JavaScript
• Knowledge and experience with SQL/NO-SQL database such as MySQL and AWS DynamoDB.
• Knowledge and experience with data representation formats such as XML and JSON.
• Knowledge of cloud technologies, preferably AWS.

Desired Skills:

• Knowledge of AI/ML techniques.
• Experience with Prompt Engineering.
• Experience building Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) Application.
• Experience building Web Services.
• Experience developing search solutions using Elasticsearch, Opensearch, Solr, or Lucene.
• Experience developing cloud-based solutions, preferably in AWS, notably Lambda, SNS/SQS, S3, ECS, EC2.
• Experience with Linux platform and related tools including shell script.
• Experience with containers (Docker) and container orchestration and management.
• Experience in development of networked services (TCP, UDP, HTTP, etc.).
• Experience with Python and/or Java.
• Experience with CI/CD.
• Experience with Automated Unit Testing.
• Understanding of Low Latency Programming Concepts and Techniques.
• Knowledge of Asynchronous Programming and Threading Concepts.

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What’s in it For You?

Join us to inform the way forward with the latest AI solutions and address real-world challenges in legal, tax, compliance, and news. Backed by our commitment to continuous learning and market-leading benefits, you’ll be prepared to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future. This includes:

• Industry-Leading 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.

• 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, and hybrid model, 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 skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.

• Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for inclusion, innovation, and customer-focus. Our eleven business resource groups nurture our culture of belonging across the diverse backgrounds and experiences represented across our global footprint.

• 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.

• 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.

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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