# Lead Software Engineer **Company**: Thomson Reuters **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $118,400 USD - $219,800 USD **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://thomsonreuters.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External_Career_Site/job/United-States-of-America-Ann-Arbor-Michigan/Lead-Software-Engineer_JREQ204101-1?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_f75423e4-663 ## Description We are seeking a highly skilled Lead Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience designing, building, and operating scalable enterprise software solutions. The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in C#, .NET, cloud-native application development, microservices architecture, and API engineering, with experience delivering secure, resilient, and customer-facing platforms. This role will play a key part in building and evolving external and internal APIs, modernizing applications into cloud-native services, and delivering highly available solutions that serve customers at scale. **Key Responsibilities** - Design, develop, and maintain external and internal RESTful APIs, microservices, and backend platforms using C#, .NET, ASP.NET Core, and cloud-native architectural patterns. - Build scalable, secure, and highly available services that support customer-facing products, third-party integrations, and enterprise workflows. - Lead the design and implementation of microservice-based architectures, including service decomposition, API contracts, event-driven patterns, observability, resiliency, and performance optimization. - Design and implement cloud-native solutions leveraging modern cloud platforms and services, including containerization, orchestration, infrastructure automation, monitoring, and continuous delivery practices. - Develop modern web applications using Angular, TypeScript, HTML, CSS, and contemporary front-end development frameworks and practices. - Collaborate with product managers, architects, UX designers, and engineering teams to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions and implementation plans. - Drive engineering excellence through adoption of software design principles, code quality standards, test automation, CI/CD pipelines, and Agile delivery practices. - Take ownership of technical design decisions, architecture reviews, code reviews, and mentoring engineers across the team. - Define and implement comprehensive testing strategies including unit testing, integration testing, API testing, automation frameworks, and quality gates to ensure production-ready software. - Proactively address security throughout the software lifecycle by implementing secure coding practices, supporting vulnerability remediation, addressing penetration test findings, and ensuring compliance with security and regulatory requirements. - Leverage AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude, and related technologies to improve engineering productivity, code quality, testing, troubleshooting, and documentation while ensuring responsible and secure usage. - Stay current on emerging technologies, cloud platforms, API ecosystems, AI-assisted development, and modern software engineering practices, bringing innovative ideas to the organization. **Required Qualifications** - 10+ years of professional software development experience, with significant hands-on expertise in C#, .NET, ASP.NET Core, API development, and distributed systems. - Proven experience designing, developing, and supporting external and internal REST APIs consumed by customers, partners, and internal applications. - Strong experience building and operating microservices-based architectures, including service communication patterns, scalability, resiliency, monitoring, and troubleshooting. - Hands-on experience developing solutions in public cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform. - Strong proficiency with Angular (Angular 16+ preferred), TypeScript, component-based architecture, state management, routing, and API integration. - Experience with containerization and modern deployment technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, AKS, or similar platforms. - Strong understanding of cloud-native engineering principles including observability, logging, monitoring, distributed tracing, fault tolerance, and operational excellence. - Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps practices for automated build, deployment, testing, and release management. - Experience with relational databases, SQL, Entity Framework, data access patterns, and API-centric application design. - Experience using source control and collaborative development workflows with Git and GitHub. - Excellent communication, mentoring, and cross-functional collaboration skills. **Preferred Qualifications** - Experience with C++ development, including object-oriented programming, performance optimization, debugging, and integration with existing platforms or services. - Experience building customer-facing platforms, SaaS applications, developer platforms, or public API ecosystems. - Experience with event-driven architectures, asynchronous messaging, and technologies such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS/SNS, or similar messaging frameworks. - Knowledge of API gateway technologies, API security standards (OAuth, OpenID Connect, JWT), and API lifecycle management. **What's in it For You?** - Hybrid Work Model: We've adopted a flexible hybrid working environment 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. - 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. - 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. - Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. - Making a Real-World Impact: We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency. ## Skills ### Required - C# - .NET - ASP.NET Core - API development - distributed systems - Angular - TypeScript - cloud-native application development - microservices architecture - containerization - Kubernetes - Docker ### Nice to have - C++ development - event-driven architectures - asynchronous messaging - Kafka - RabbitMQ - SQS/SNS - API gateway technologies - API security standards --- Source: [Apply at thomsonreuters.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com](https://thomsonreuters.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External_Career_Site/job/United-States-of-America-Ann-Arbor-Michigan/Lead-Software-Engineer_JREQ204101-1?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)