Lead Software Engineer - Full stack/Frontend

at  Thomson Reuters

LEAD SOFTWARE ENGINEER - FULL STACK/FRONTEND

We are looking for a Lead Software Engineer - Full stack/Frontend with strong React and Front End skills to our Digital team. This challenging position requires someone to think independently, lead, work well collaboratively across multiple disciplines, including working with a variety of technologies stacks (as required). It is an opportunity to work for a great company with smart people on large systems that are used worldwide

ABOUT THE ROLE:

As a Lead Software Engineer - Full stack/Frontend, you will:

• Leads multiple and/or significant projects, programs and business initiatives, demonstrating creativity and ingenuity
• Delivers end-to-end technical solutions and solves complex problems that may be ambiguous in nature
• Determines work priorities based on general direction from managers
• Supports and develops software engineers by providing advice, coaching, and educational opportunities.
• Determines work priorities based on general direction from managers
• Provides specialist advice to middle and senior management to resolve complex issues.
• Recommends modifications to the daily operations of the assigned work group / team. Makes needed adjustments to short-term priorities.
• Interacts with direct team of accountability, peers and/or managers in other teams.
• Shows passion for efficiency and collaboration, with a history of establishing great relationships
• Shows commitment and drive for quality, technical excellence and results
• Models curiosity and displays passion to constantly learn new things
• Communicate with product and business teams to gather and analyze the business requirement and translate it into technical design and prepare functional/technical specification documents.
• Research and identify new software technologies that can be leveraged to improve application performance and development efficiency, reducing cost and maintaining quality, working closely with development leads.
• Develop Fullstack, high resilience, low latency information management and processing system in the tax and legal worlds.
• Provide creative and elegant solutions to complex problems.
• Prepare technical specifications and documentation.
• Participate in internal team and status meetings, in project planning sessions with team members to analyze development requirements, provide design options, and provide work breakdown and estimates of work.
• Participate in software releases.
• Work together with the your team and other teams to deliver high-grade, performant, well-documented and resilient features.
• Work together 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 together with the system operation team to ensure system stability and maintain high availability

You are a fit for the role of Senior Frontend Software Developer if you meet the following qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent years of experience
• 6+ years software development experience using React Front End, Java, JavaScript, Python or other core languages across the technology industry.
• Managing code and changes in a team environment to include experience with source control utilities, such as Git
• Experience with Web technologies, such as: ASP, ASPX, AngularJS, CSS and HTML 5.
• Experience with Back End and Cloud technologies, such as: Boomi, Java, AWS, Data Manipulation
• Leadership skills with a track record of mentoring, setting technical goals, and delegating tasks
• Strong troubleshooting and debugging experience
• Comfortable leading design discussions in addition to hands-on development
• Working and interacting with a geographically and culturally diverse team
• Mentoring junior developers and translating requirements from business partners
• Cloud technology experience(e.g. AWS, Azure), or Docke