Manager, Software Development

Role Summary

The Client Application Technology team is dedicated to creating compelling experiences that deliver Reuters outstanding journalism to media publishers and informed professionals across the world, with goals to increase discovery, optimize conversion, and drive engagement across the Thomson Reuters products and services.

You will plan, coordinate, and supervise the activities related to the design, development, and implementation of Reuters Connect Platform.

As an experienced technologist, you are the focal point for engineering initiatives and issues. We expect you to work with a distributed team of software developers, quality assurance engineers, UX designers, and product managers focused on the development and delivery of new product offerings.

As a manager, you are accountable for your team's results. You will apply proven communication skills, problem-solving skills, and knowledge of best practices to guide your team, and make informed decisions on their technical design, development, and deployment of features to the highest quality and maintainability.

About the Role

In this opportunity as Manager, Software Development, you will:

• Be Accountable for the successful execution of technology projects and ensuring timely execution and delivery through diligent oversight of the end-to-end software development lifecycle
• Contribute code alongside the team's developers
• Resolve escalated issues arising from operations requiring coordination with other departments
• Establish high engineering standards on execution while integrating pragmatic constraints into technical scope planning and project resource estimations
• Partner with Product and other business stakeholders to define the quarterly and annual product roadmap
• Advise cross-functional team members and business stakeholders to guide complexity and tradeoff discussions
• Develop consistent, clear communication and prioritization frameworks. Align engineering priorities with product development and business strategies
• Plan for the long-term, and firmly execute a vision that keeps improving the team's efficiency, and output quality. Continue to grow the team's knowledge, skill, and sustainability to meet growing business requirements
• Drive technological changes, assess risks and create business impacts
• Build a world-class team: Motivate, engage, develop your employees and recruit talents to your organization

About You

You're a fit for the role of Manager, Software Development if your background includes:

• Minimum of 2 years progressively responsible management experience in a software development field, or equivalent experience as a non-managing dev lead
• Must have 3 years of experience building production applications, including experience with backend service integration, website integration, user engagement analytics, and development operational tools (Git, CI/CD pipelines)
• Experience with Javascript frameworks
• Experience working with MVVM (Model-View-View-Model), MVC (Model-View-Controller Design) & MVP (Model View Presenter)
• Proven fluency and in-depth knowledge of at least one of the 4 programming languages: Clojure/ClojureScript, Re-frame, Reagent/React, Docker, and AWS.
• Demonstrable portfolio of released applications
• Employer will accept any suitable combination of education, training or experience

Preferred Qualifications and Experience:

• 5 years of software engineering experience
• Extensive knowledge of APIs including RESTful and GraphQL
• Knowledge of Design Systems
• In-depth knowledge of application performance benchmarking, optimization, and monitoring
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Effectively communicate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences
• Experience in researching and making recommendations on software products and services for procurement

What's in it For You?

You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through:

• Hybrid Work Model: Currently the majority of our employees are working within a hybrid environment consisting of in-office and remote work, and following local COVID-19 bylaws and guidelines.

• Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more
• Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: company-wide Mental Health Day Off; Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing
• Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters cafe networking
• Social Impact: Eight 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 have a superpower that we've never talked about with as much pride as we should - we are one of the only companies on the planet 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.

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COVID-19 Vaccination Status Information Requirement (US employees only):

Thomson Reuters is committed to ensuring the continued safety of our employees in regards to Covid-19. While vaccination is not required for consideration or employment at this time, to inform our site planning and policies, we require all Thomson Reuters employees to verify their vaccination status upon starting with the Company.

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 25,000 employees across more than 75 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.

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