Senior Software Engineer (Backend - Java)

Thomson Reuters

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(278)

Eagan, MN

Why you should apply for a job to Thomson Reuters:

  • Ranked as one of the Best Companies for Women in 2020
  • 4.2/5 in overall job satisfaction
  • 4.6/5 in supportive management
  • 83% say women are treated fairly and equally to men
  • 89% would recommend this company to other women
  • 91% say the CEO supports gender diversity
  • Ratings are based on anonymous reviews by Fairygodboss members.
  • Flex My Way Program - This program builds upon our flexible work/hybrid model, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance
  • Career Growth/Skills Development - We cultivate a learning culture that contributes to career growth, belonging, risk-taking, + innovation
  • Global Parental Leave - Teammates who are welcoming a new child through birth or adoption will receive a min of 16-weeks of paid leave
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    Position summary

    nologies like AI and cloud computing to enable our success.

    About the Role:
    As a Senior Software Engineer at FindLaw, you will:

    • Collaborate with others efficiently and effectively to accomplish tasks on the desired timeline.

    • Learn and apply new business and technical concepts quickly.

    • Provide technical leadership to the team, ensuring design and architecture are aligned with the FindLaw strategy, standards, and best practices.

    • Participate in all aspects of the agile process from story creation through release.

    • Design, develop, test, and deliver application features that delight customers.

    • Contribute non-functional requirements to projects to achieve long term application health and stability.

    • Understand and apply current secure development practices.

    • Maintain an understanding of industry trends and use this knowledge to bring new innovative ideas to the group.

    • Support Production applications as needed to prevent service interruptions and maintain a high level of quality for our customers.

    • Communicate effectively in written and verbal form with colleagues and vendor representatives.

    • Mentor junior engineers to sustain a high level of development standards.

    • Effectively manage your priorities and time.

    • Present technical concepts and proposals with business and technical audiences in a way that resonates with them.

    • Tackle the largest technical challenges facing the team.

    About You:

    You are a fit for the position of Senior Software Enginee****r if your background includes:

    • A bachelor's degree in architecture, engineering, computer science, or a related field.

    • 3 + years experience developing enterprise Java applications using Spring, with unit tests.

    • Experience designing, delivering, and maintaining ReSTful services.

    • Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) .

    • Experience using messaging services such as Amazon SQS, IBM MQ, ActiveMQ, Rabbit MQ, or Kafka.

    • Experience managing efficient database connections and transactions in Java.

    • Experience writing and executing complex SQL .

    • Proven design skills with significant knowledge of core libraries and common design patterns.

    • Understanding of security testing practices and methodologies including scanning tools such as Snyk and Qualys .

    • Able to work independently with minimal direction to meet commitments.

    • Strong focus on system performance, scalability with the ability to troubleshoot in large and complex software systems.

    • Ability to multitask in a fast-paced environment.

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    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 (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) 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.

    Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we've been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world's most global news services - Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.

    We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

    Accessibility

    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 applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

    We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.

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    Why you should apply for a job to Thomson Reuters:

  • Ranked as one of the Best Companies for Women in 2020
  • 4.2/5 in overall job satisfaction
  • 4.6/5 in supportive management
  • 83% say women are treated fairly and equally to men
  • 89% would recommend this company to other women
  • 91% say the CEO supports gender diversity
  • Ratings are based on anonymous reviews by Fairygodboss members.
  • Flex My Way Program - This program builds upon our flexible work/hybrid model, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance
  • Career Growth/Skills Development - We cultivate a learning culture that contributes to career growth, belonging, risk-taking, + innovation
  • Global Parental Leave - Teammates who are welcoming a new child through birth or adoption will receive a min of 16-weeks of paid leave