Lead Software Engineer

Title:Lead Software Engineer
ID:13001132

Description

Lead Software Engineer
We seek a passionate, value driven lead programmer to add to a growing Carrollton-based engineering team. This team is developing a SAAS/PAAS-based global tax compliance platform. This platform is primarily utilized for direct and indirect tax compliance and is being leveraged by business units located around the world. We value technical aptitude, adaptive ingenuity and a proven record of performance over proficiency with a specific tool set.
- Demonstrated ability to learn and wisely apply new platforms and technologies.
- Has internalized the tenants of the Agile Manifesto and the Software Craftsmanship Manifesto and strongly adheres to delivering business value as part of a self organizing team that holds each team member accountable to achieve the targeted goals.
- Demonstrated test infection with desire to infect others.
- Prepared for a highly collaborative team environment with much technical discussion and open debate.
- Desire to work in a team environment serving multiple internal customer groups.
- Evidence of being innovative and self-motivated.
- Longs for the opportunity to promote a collaborative, cross-functional corporate culture, assisting others as needed along the journey.
We are the leading source of intelligent information for the world's businesses and professionals, providing customers with competitive advantage. Intelligent information is a unique synthesis of human intelligence, industry expertise and innovative technology that provides decision-makers with the knowledge to act, enabling them to make better decisions faster. We deliver this must-have insight to the financial and risk, legal, tax and accounting, intellectual property and science and media markets, powered by the world's most trusted news organization.

Qualifications
- Proven ability to understand and communicate extremely complex designs and systems.
- Demonstrated ability to work on complex tasks with minimal technical and management guidance.
- Demonstrated ability to learn and wisely apply new platforms and technologies.
- Experience with distributed architectures, SAAS/PAAS and design patterns strongly preferred.
- 2 or more years experience and preference to work in an Agile environment, with burning desire to continuously improve that environment.
- Experience with three or more of the following: C#, F#, Java, Ruby, Python, JavaScript, Objective-C, Scala, Clojure, Erlang or Haskell. Preferably with at least one Object Oriented language as well as at least one functional language.
- 2 or more years experience working in a test-first environment with heavy automation of unit, integration, UI and end-to-end system tests driven by a self-service continuous integration system.
- 8 or more years of commercial software development experience.
- 2 or more years experience developing server based compute engines, distributed services, or reusable components.
- 4-year college degree in Computer Science or a closely related field, or demonstrable work experience

At Thomson Reuters, we believe what we do matters. We are passionate about our work, inspired by the impact it has on our business and our customers. As a team, we believe in winning as one - collaborating to reach shared goals, and developing through challenging and meaningful experiences. With over 60,000 employees in more than 100 countries, we work flexibly across boundaries and realize innovations that help shape industries around the world. Making this happen is a dynamic, evolving process, and we count on each employee to be a catalyst in driving our performance - and their own.
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 country or local law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.
Intrigued by a challenge as large and fascinating as the world itself? Come join us.

More information about Thomson Reuters can be found on thomsonreuters.com

Job: Technology Development Family Group
Primary Location: Carrollton, TX, US
Other Locations:
Organization: Tax&Acctg Corporate
Schedule: Full-time
Education Level: Bachelor's Degree (±16 years)
Job Type: Standard
Shift: Day Job
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