Principal Software Engineer, Reuters

The Reuters Product Connector is an in-house tool that serves as middleware. RPC abstracts Reuters Products from Reuters Business Systems. A Principal Software Engineer, Reuters works across the end-to-end software development life cycle and applies modern software development practices when defining, designing, building, testing, and delivering software and services to users.

This role involves creating and managing API-first microservices for product integration, ensuring seamless eCommerce capabilities, and prioritizing performance and scalability. You will utilize your deep technical expertise and skillset by representing software development engineering in overall project management by specifying and driving progress towards development activities, milestones, and timelines. This role independently builds software solutions, solves highly complex problems, and displays innovation when delivering projects and/or product(s).

A Principal Software Engineer models a growth mindset by mentoring and guiding Software Development Engineer team members in growing their skillsets and models continuous learning and curiosity. This role communicates the role of Software Development Engineering along with the value it adds to the business and partners with all levels of leadership to educate and influence product road maps.

About the Role

In this opportunity as Principal Software Engineer, you will:

• Develop and maintain the Reuters Product Connector to abstract Reuters Products from Reuters CORE.
• Create and manage API-first microservices for product integration.
• Ensure eCommerce capabilities through platforms like Zuora and ONESOURCE.
• Prioritize performance as a non-functional requirement.
• Assess and implement required self-service, user record synchronization, and entitlements capabilities.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver on projects and ensure seamless integration with other systems and applications.

About You

You’re a fit for the role of Principal Software Engineer if your background includes:

• Proven experience in software development, with a focus on API and microservices development.
• Strong knowledge of eCommerce platforms and integration.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently.
• Experience with cloud-based technologies and distributed systems.
• Strong communication and collaboration 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.

• Wellbeing: 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 café networking.

• Social Impact: Ten 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 help our 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.

Do 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 26,000 employees across more than 70 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.

Accessibility

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 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.