Senior Software Engineer, Reuters
Senior Software Engineer, Reuters
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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
Youre 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 bachelors 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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Whats in it For You
Hybrid Work Model: Weve 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 tomorrows 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.
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.
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Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
