Senior Software Engineer | Thomson Reuters | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Position: Senior Software Engineer

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

About the job

Why is this job important?

Reuters News Agency engineering team develops business-critical applications and services for the Reuters news organization. We provide publishers and broadcasters with news text, photos, and video over both Internet and satellite, and we also provide web-scale hosted content solution to digital publishers.

About The Role

In your role you will be responsible for:

• Communicating with product and business teams to gather and analyze business requirement and translating into technical design and preparing functional/technical specification documents.
• Researching and identifying new software technologies that can be leveraged to improve application performance and development efficiency, reducing cost and maintain quality.
• Developing web scale, high resilience web application for news distribution and hosted content.
• Developing low latency news collection and processing system that process text, picture, video news in various news message format.
• Developing news distribution services that deliver news content to clients globally via FTP/HTTP pushing, web services and agent application.
• Working together with Quality Assurance team to prepare test plans/test cases and define test execution methodology and perform tests. Identify and fix any defects.
• Working together with system operation team to ensure system stability and maintain high availability 24/7/365.

About You

Qualifications – What do you need to bring?

• A bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, Electrical/Electronic Engineering or a related field, plus 5 years of work experience in software development-related position.
• Deep understanding and experience in Python
• Experience in large-scale web application/web services design and development.
• Good understanding in SQL or NO-SQL database, XML, JSON, HTML. Good understanding in JavaScript is desirable.
• Experience in Linux platform and related tools including shell script.
• Experience in public cloud especially AWS is a big plus.
• Experience in search solution design and development using Elasticsearch, Solr, Lucene is a big plus.
• Experience in an application development role in low-latency data collecting and processing systems design and development is a big plus.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work closely with product managers.
• Experience working in a global team with coworkers from different culture is desirable.
• Experience within the news industry and knowledge of industry standards is desirable.

What’s In It For You

At Thomson Reuters, our people are our greatest assets. Here are some of the benefits we offer for your personal and professional growth:

• Learning & Development:
• Exposure to a wide breadth of leading-edge technology
• Career growth – ability to work on multiple projects and/or with various teams
• Professional growth and development opportunity through various training programs, conferences, networking events, in-house speaker series, etc.
• Access to Hackathons, Unconferences, Harvard Manage Mentor, and more, we offer learning opportunities for everyone
• Benefits/Perks:
• Health benefits
• Savings/investment plans
• Paid time off (including time off to volunteer and extended parental leave)
• Flexibility: We’ve been named as one of Forbes, Best Companies for Work/Life Balance
• Global Opportunities: We have employees in over 90 countries, working across 3 different industries
• Your wellbeing: We offer a program that focuses on making our lives healthier

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