Lead Software Engineer
Company: Thomson Reuters
Location: Carrollton
Posted on: September 11, 2023
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Job Description:
Lead Software EngineerPlatform Services U.S. Income Tax
ComplianceThomson Reuters U.S. Income Tax Compliance software is
relied upon by the largest multi-national corporations and global
accounting firms for theirs and their clients' income tax filings.
Our vision is to create the next generation of tax and accounting
software that is no longer bound by the prior constraints upon
storage and computational resources that have historically been a
major factor in how we designed and implemented our platforms. We
seeks to add a talented, results oriented and innovative software
engineer to our team who will help us extend our market leadership
into the next generation of our software.Key ExpectationsAbility to
balance legacy demands with future vision. Thomson Reuters is an
established leader in the tax compliance market place, with a long
history and lots of legacy code. So, while our ambitions are very
much focused on the future, we need someone who possesses the
patience and tolerance necessary to maintain existing systems and
methods while working feverishly to construct the new. While we
have traditionally hosted our services internally, we are migrating
to public cloud infrastructure, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft
Azure, specifically. We need your partnership in moving this
transformation forward.Thinking in terms of computing at scale.
Liberated from the traditional constraints of legacy data centers
and monolithic architectures, you design and construct elastic,
fault-tolerant, highperformance, scalable systems, that are cloud
native.Strong Object Oriented Analysis and Design Skills. You
instinctively decompose large scale problem spaces into rich
domains that appropriately combine data structures and behavior,
that possess elegant layering and a separation of concerns, and you
understand principles such as SOLID and Domain Driven Design
("DDD").Provide architectural input on new and existing
solutions.Lead multiple projects, programs and business
initiatives, demonstrating creativity and ingenuity.Provide
technical expertise and peer code reviews to other team
members.Agile, collaborative and flexible. We are organized around
self-directed, largely autonomous Scrum teams. You work well with
others, enjoy opportunities to collaborate and readily adapt as
strategies evolve and priorities change.Here are the kinds of
skills we are looking for:Engineering Excellence. You have at least
three years of experience in a variety of contexts during which
you've contributed to the construction of scalable, extensible
software solutions and systems. You understand technology and
possess a passion for excellence. You instinctively partner with
the QualityEngineering and Quality Assurance team members,
responding immediately to failing test cases and ensuring that
quality is engineered from the Inside Out.Bias towards action. You
believe that speed and quality aren't mutually exclusive. You've
shown good judgment about shipping as fast as possible while still
making sure that products are built in a sustainable, responsible
way - and you're comfortable making mistakes, provided you learn
from them.Passion and energy. Because you love what you do, you
bring infectious enthusiasm to all your endeavors. You always
perform at your absolute best and see new challenges as an
opportunity to contribute, make an impact, and grow.Commitment. At
Thomson Reuters, commitment to customer satisfaction and technology
excellence permeates everything we do. You care tremendously about
delighting our users and ensuring that our market and technical
leadership is sustained and extended. You are your harshest critic
and hold yourself personally accountable, jumping in and taking
ownership of problems that might not even be in your team's
scope.QualificationsFive or more years' experience in a software
engineering environment, including experience with co-located as
well as geographically distributed teams.Strong experience with
Microsoft C++, including MFC, Active X, COM, OLE and Win32. You
will need to have strong object-oriented design and development
skills. You possess a solid understanding of object-oriented
programming, SOLID, DRY, DDD and core database design
principles.Hands on experience in C#/Java Web Application
Technologies, Web API and Cloud Technologies.Working experience
with web service troubleshooting tools like Postman, Fiddler.Good
working knowledge of SQL, RDBMS databases.Awareness of CI/CD/DevOps
concept and tools. Comfortable with the disciplines of Unit Testing
and Test Automation. Worked in an environment in which releasable
code is delivered every two weeks.Working experience with Git and
GitFlow, pull requests, branching and merging of features across
multiple releases and hot fixes.Whether via face-to-face
discussion, phone, email, chat, white-boarding, or other
collaboration platforms, you must be an effective communicator who
can inform, explain, and coordinate, etc. --- Willingness to learn
and support our legacy codebase while the transition to our next
generation is occurring.Ability to build and deliver hands-on
technology proof-of-concepts and demonstrations --- Experience
working in Agile/Scrum team environmentsResults oriented. Detailed
oriented. Driven. Take initiative without being asked.Bachelor's
Degree required.At Thomson Reuters, we believe what we do matters.
We are passionate about our work, inspired by the impact it has on
our business and our customers. As a team, we believe in winning as
one - collaborating to reach shared goals, and developing through
challenging and meaningful experiences. With over 60,000 employees
in more than 100 countries, we work flexibly across boundaries and
realize innovations that help shape industries around the world.
Making this happen is a dynamic, evolving process, and we count on
each employee to be a catalyst in driving our performance - and
their own.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 country
or local law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment
Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free
workplaceYou 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 for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless
experience that is digitally and physically connectedWellbeing:
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 caf--
networking.Social Impact: Eight 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.#LI-MW1Do 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.AccessibilityAs 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.Protect yourself from fraudulent job postings
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be found on https://thomsonreuters.com.
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