Lead Backend Software Engineer

4 weeks ago


Toronto, Ontario, Canada Thomson Reuters Full time
About the Role

In this exciting opportunity, you will play a key role in the development of our backend applications, responsible for processing millions of legal documents.

  • Ideate, design, implement, deploy, maintain, and support a set of related backend applications.
  • Contribute to the complete software development lifecycle, including analysis, design, implementation, CI/CD, DevOps deployment, maintenance, and support responsibilities.
  • Lead initiatives for improving processes to achieve better outcomes across the team.
  • Collaborate with product managers, scientists, subject matter experts, and other stakeholders to deliver great software products.
  • Continually adapt to changes in technology, markets, and processes.
  • Lead and collaborate with others to get things done with minimal supervision.
  • Lend support to client applications and users of the backend applications you work on.
About You

You are a fit for this role if your background includes:

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, related field, or equivalent experience.
  • 7+ years of software development, hosting, and maintenance experience.
  • Prior experience with ML Ops - hosting, monitoring, and maintaining AI/ML models in the cloud.
  • Hands-on experience designing and implementing distributed systems using cloud services.
  • Hands-on experience designing, deploying, and maintaining applications to Azure cloud services.
  • Hands-on experience with Rust, Python, and SQL/Relational Databases.
  • Prior experience leading other engineers (can be formal or informal engineering leadership).
  • Solid understanding of the software development lifecycle, unit testing, quality control practices, and incident management.
  • Good written and oral communication skills, including the ability to share knowledge across the team, provide status updates to leadership, mentor other engineers, and influence better thinking and practices across the team long term.
  • Good creative problem-solving capabilities.
  • Able to work independently or as part of a team (including the ability to organize others) to complete varied objectives.
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: We've adopted a flexible hybrid working environment for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.
  • Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; work from another location for up to a total of 8 weeks in a year, 4 of those weeks can be out of the country and the remaining in the country, Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
  • Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.
  • Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters café networking.
  • Social Impact: Ten 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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