Senior Software Engineer

Thomson Reuters is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the GoSystem Tax product. Our vision is to create the next generation of tax and accounting software ecosystem that is highly performant, scalable, reliable, and resilient. We have embarked on a journey to transform our monolithic system into microservices by taking advantage of modern cloud-native architecture principles and cloud technologies.

We are also building APIs that open up our ecosystem for integrations with our customers’ systems. We seek 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.

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.

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.

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.

About the Role

You're fit for the role of Senior Software Engineer if you have the following required qualifications: 

• Design, develop, and deliver scalable, reliable, and highly available services and APIs using microservices architecture patterns and REST principles

• Follow Twelve-Factor App methodology to develop services

• Develop cloud-native solutions that run on cloud infrastructure such as AWS

• Partner with Product Managers to develop user stories and maintain a groomed product backlog

• Apply agile software development methodology and deliver production-ready code at the conclusion of every two-week sprint

• Work with architects to determine the technical design for feature requirements

• Drive innovation through rapid prototyping and iterative development

• Ensure that applications and infrastructure are designed and implemented to the highest security standards, maintaining and enhancing customer trust

You will work in an agile, collaborative, and flexible environment with self-directed, largely autonomous Scrum teams, adapting as strategies evolve and priorities change.

About You

You are a strong individual contributor who brings passion, accountability, and technical excellence to your work. You are a creative problem solver who thrives in collaborative environments.

You bring:

Engineering Excellence

• At least 5 years of experience contributing to scalable, extensible software solutions and systems

• A strong understanding of technology with a passion for excellence

• A mindset of building quality into solutions by partnering closely with Quality Engineering and Quality Assurance teams

Thinking in terms of computing at scale

• Experience designing and constructing elastic, fault-tolerant, high-performance, scalable, cloud-native systems

• Comfort moving away from monolithic architectures toward modern distributed systems

Bias toward action

• The ability to balance speed and quality

• Comfort making mistakes, failing quickly and safely, and learning continuously

You bring energy and enthusiasm to your work, see challenges as opportunities to grow, and take personal ownership of outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, related field, or equivalent experience

• 5+ years of experience in a software engineering environment

• Strong computer science fundamentals in data structures and algorithm design

• Strong programming experience with .NET and C#

• Solid understanding of object-oriented programming, SOLID, DRY, DDD, and core database design principles

• Strong experience designing and developing web applications and production-grade customer-facing APIs using ASP.NET

• Experience with front-end frameworks such as Angular and JavaScript

• Experience working with public cloud platforms, preferably AWS (EC2, S3, ALB, API Gateway, Auto Scaling, RDS, Lambda, SQS)

• Experience with containers (Docker, ECS, Kubernetes) is a plus

• Proficiency with CI/CD, Git, and other DevOps processes and tools

• Experience with AI productivity tools such as GitHub Copilot or Claude Code

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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.

 

 

In the United States, Thomson Reuters offers a comprehensive benefits package to our employees. Our benefit package includes market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs, as well as a competitive 401k plan with company match. In addition, Thomson Reuters offers market leading work life benefits with competitive vacation, sick and safe paid time off, paid holidays (including two company mental health days off), parental leave, sabbatical leave. These benefits meet or exceeds the requirements of paid time off in accordance with any applicable state or municipal laws. Finally, Thomson Reuters offers the following additional benefits: optional hospital, accident and sickness insurance paid 100% by the employee; optional life and AD&D insurance paid 100% by the employee; Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts; fitness reimbursement; access to Employee Assistance Program; Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit paid 100% by employee; access to 529 Plan; commuter benefits; Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance; Tuition Reimbursement; and access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

Thomson Reuters complies with local laws that require upfront disclosure of the expected pay range for a position. The base compensation range varies across locations. Eligible office location(s) for this role include one or more of the following: New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and/or Irvine, CA; McLean, VA; Washington, DC. The base compensation range for the role in any of those locations is $101,640 USD - $188,760 USD. Base pay is positioned within the range based on several factors including an individual’s knowledge, skills and experience with consideration given to internal equity. Base pay is one part of a comprehensive Total Reward program which also includes flexible and supportive benefits and other wellbeing programs. This role may also be eligible for an Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance.

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.

Thomson Reuters makes reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities, including veterans with disabilities, and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law. If you reside in the United States and require an accommodation in the recruiting process, you may contact our Human Resources Department at HR.Leave-Expert@thomsonreuters.com. Disability accommodations in the recruiting process may include things like a sign language interpreter, making interview rooms accessible, providing assistive technology, or other relevant accommodations. Please note this email is not intended for general recruitment questions and we will promptly respond to inquiries regarding accommodations. More information on requesting an accommodation here.

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