Lead, Software Engineer
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About the Role
As a Technical Lead, you will be responsible for leading a team to deliver high-quality software solutions that meet business and stakeholder needs. This role requires a strong balance of technical leadership, people leadership, architecture ownership, stakeholder management, and delivery excellence.
- Lead the team in delivering high-quality, scalable, maintainable, and performant software solutions.
- Maintain a holistic view of the solution, covering architecture, requirements, usability, quality, and delivery timelines.
- Analyze and interpret business and technical requirements to ensure solutions are fit for purpose.
- Promote and enforce software engineering best practices, coding standards, architectural principles, and review processes.
- Provide overall technical direction to the team across design, development, bug fixing, implementation, and release delivery.
- Ensure the team delivers solutions with the right quality and within agreed timelines.
- Take ownership of product performance, maintainability, and customer satisfaction.
- Work closely with stakeholders, requirement owners, architects, product teams, and other counterparts to ensure alignment.
- Lead and facilitate design discussions involving internal teams, clients, and offshore teams where needed.
- Drive code quality improvements, code compliance policies, and effective code review practices.
- Support continuous improvement of processes, standards, guidelines, and tools.
- Build and maintain a healthy team culture that encourages collaboration, accountability, and growth.
- Coach and mentor team members to improve both their technical and communication skills.
- Remove obstacles, align priorities, and help the team achieve its objectives effectively.
- Contribute to resource planning, team growth, and scope expansion.
- Stay current with technology trends and domain knowledge and encourage knowledge sharing within the team.
- Represent the company through internal or external technical events, knowledge-sharing initiatives, mentorship, and recruitment activities.
About You
We are looking for a strong technical leader who combines software engineering expertise, architecture knowledge, delivery ownership, and people leadership.
You should ideally have
- Strong experience in application architecture and design.
- Proven ability to manage end-to-end delivery of software projects.
- A solid understanding of software engineering principles, development standards, and best practices.
- The ability to convert product vision and business goals into executable team-level plans.
- Strong ownership of solution quality, code quality, and architectural decisions.
- Confidence to make decisions independently and take responsibility for outcomes.
- Experience leading design discussions and collaborating with clients, stakeholders, and cross-functional teams.
- A strong understanding of the product/domain to provide practical and effective technical solutions.
- The ability to drive teams to resolve issues in a timely and structured manner.
- A proactive communication style, with the ability to engage early with local and overseas peers, stakeholders, and leadership.
- Strong people leadership skills, including coaching, mentoring, delegation, follow-up, and performance support.
- The ability to build strong working relationships with team members, clients, and stakeholders.
- A passion for improving team culture, engineering quality, and delivery effectiveness.
- A mindset of continuous learning and staying up to date with current technologies, tools, and industry trends.
- 7+ years of work experience in software engineering
or - 2+ years of experience as an Associate Technical Lead
- A university degree or equivalent professional qualification that provides knowledge of, and exposure to, software engineering principles and practices.
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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.
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.
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