Tech Lead Engineer -Backend- Reuters

Job Description The Client Application Technology team is dedicated to creating compelling experiences that deliver Reuters' outstanding journalism to the world’s most informed professionals. The team aims to increase discovery, optimise conversion, and drive engagement across Thomson Reuters products and services. The technology focuses on web development and substantial backend service integration. You will work with a distributed team of software developers, quality engineers, and product managers focused on developing and integrating platforms and services that power Reuters experiences, including content creation, curation, publishing, distribution, and e-commerce. As an experienced technologist, you’ll lead the development of solutions that scale and will consistently innovate. You will work closely with solution architects and senior software engineers to develop high-quality, maintainable software.

Major Responsibilities The Backend Tech Lead Engineer will consult and be responsible for all aspects of key software deliverables, from understanding business requirements and planning activities to developing code and proactively managing risks. We expect your work to demonstrate a strong technical background and a commitment to writing concise, scalable code. You will mentor/collaborate with fellow engineers to share knowledge, design, develop, test, and deploy software. Additionally, you will help coordinate with development partners to ensure features are released on time and within budget. You will modify existing software to fix errors or enhance performance when necessary. You will provide leadership and adhere to standards and best practices for software development and developer productivity. You will maintain long-term client relationships and networks.

About The Role

• Demonstrate best-in-class software engineering skills to develop secure, tested, optimised, scalable code.
• Collaborate with designers, product managers, ops engineers, QA engineers, and other teams and stakeholders to solve innovative problems using out-of-the-box solutions.
• Write code that an SDE unfamiliar with the software can understand.
• Conduct code reviews.
• Assess existing software applications and identify where enhancements can improve them.
• Identify and resolve the root cause of software defects.
• Identify and document product architecture and solution design
• Communicate clearly and effectively via GitHub, Slack, MS Teams, JIRA, etc., to keep all stakeholders in the loop on relevant issues.
• Interact thoughtfully and professionally with everyone, including non-technical colleagues.
• Work with central technology teams to establish and adhere to best practices.
• Present practical input for strategic technology decisions.
• Comply with all professional departmental and company best practices.
• Help translate business requirements into technical needs and actions.
• Drive predictability in the project outcomes through process and diligent oversight.
• Actively contribute to the evolution of processes and standards. Lead improvement efforts.
• Promote more effective use of productivity tools.
• Follow Agile development methodologies and mentor team members in this area.

About You

• Must have 4 years of experience building applications/platforms with cloud native/microservice architecture, including experience with IaaS, PaaS, and container deployment.
• Must have 3 years of experience with modern collaborative development tools (Git, CI/CD pipelines)
• Employers will accept any suitable combination of education, training, or experience.
• Minimum 10+ years of professional backend engineering experience.
• Strong proficiency in Java and TypeScript with Node.js frameworks
• Solid experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs; familiarity with GraphQL is a plus.
• Expertise with relational databases (PostgreSQL/MySQL) and one or more NoSQL stores (Redis, MongoDB, DynamoDB, or similar); strong SQL skills and data modelling.
• Hands-on with cloud platforms (AWS) and containerization/orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• CI/CD practices and tooling (GitHub Actions).
• Knowledge of security best practices, such as OAuth2/OIDC, JWT, TLS, secrets management, and least privilege (IAM).
• Strong testing culture: unit/integration/e2e testing, contract testing (JUnit, Jest, Testcontainers, Pact).
• Prior experience as a Tech lead will be an added plus
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and system design skills.

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. 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. We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law. More information on requesting an accommodation here. Learn more on how to protect yourself from fraudulent job postings here. More information about Thomson Reuters can be found on thomsonreuters.com.