Lead Software Engineer, Platform Services

Thomson Reuters U.S. Income Tax Compliance software is relied upon by the largest multi-national corporations and global accounting firms for theirs and their clients’ income tax filings. Our vision is to create the next generation of tax and accounting software that is no longer bound by the prior constraints upon storage and computational resources that have historically been a major factor in how we designed and implemented our platforms. We seek to add a talented, results oriented and innovative software engineer to our team who will help us extend our market leadership into the next generation of our software. 

About The Role  

As a Lead Software Engineer, you will: 

• Lead multiple and/or significant projects, programs, and business initiatives, showcasing creativity and ingenuity. 

• Deliver comprehensive technical solutions and address complex, sometimes ambiguous problems. 

• Set work priorities based on broad directions from management. 

• Train and mentor team members, including Senior Software Engineers. 

• Strategically focus on the development and testing of software systems or applications for enhancements and new products. 

• Ensure the delivery of software features with outstanding quality, meeting specified release plans and commitments. 

• Address problems of diverse scope where analysis of data requires evaluation of identifiable factors. 

• Take ownership of a functional area, breaking down large requests into sub-tasks, providing higher-level status updates, writing test plans, and taking operational responsibility. 

• Perform code reviews and participate in the development of technical/business strategies and new or enhanced technical tools. 

• Set schedules for software engineering projects, define project parameters and tasks, and monitor project progress. 

• Maintain and drive the "vision" of the project, leading others toward its completion. 

• Resolve a wide range of issues in innovative ways. 

• Own the development and rollout for an entire product or large project. 

• Lead the daily activities of the assigned work group/team, recommend modifications to the operations of the assigned work group/team, and adjust short-term priorities as needed. 

About You  

You are suited for this role if you have: 

• Five or more years’ experience in a software engineering environment, including experience with co-located as well as geographically distributed teams. 

• Strong experience with Microsoft C++, including MFC, Active X, COM, OLE and Win32. You will need to have strong object-oriented design and development skills. You possess a solid understanding of object-oriented programming, SOLID, DRY, DDD and core database design principles. 

• Hands on experience in C#/Java Web Application Technologies, Web API and Cloud Technologies. 

• Working experience with web service troubleshooting tools like Postman, Fiddler. 

• Good working knowledge of SQL, RDBMS databases. 

• Awareness of CI/CD/DevOps concept and tools. Comfortable with the disciplines of Unit Testing and Test Automation. Worked in an environment in which releasable code is delivered every two weeks. 

• Working experience with Git and