Director, Software Engineering

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🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $158.9k - $295.1k / year

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Thomson Reuters

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10,000+ employees

Founded 2008

💼 Consulting

⚖️ Legal

🛡️ Insurance

Consulting • Legal • Insurance

Thomson Reuters is a global content and technology company that provides professionals with reliable and accurate solutions across the legal, tax and accounting, international trade, and risk management sectors. The company offers a range of products including legal research tools, tax preparation software, compliance and regulatory solutions, and media services like Reuters for global news. With significant investments in generative AI, Thomson Reuters continues to innovate in helping professionals optimize their workflows and enhance their decision-making. Their platforms serve various industries such as law firms, corporations, tax professionals, and media organizations, providing essential tools that combine powerful technology with in-depth expert content.

📋 Description

• Lead Reuters' content management systems engineering organization • Own the platform underpinning content creation, editorial workflows, and publishing on Reuters.com • Direct technical strategy, architecture, and delivery of Reuters' CMS platform through a major transition • Act as a principal engineer when needed, providing direct technical guidance on front-end and back-end challenges • Own the technical architecture and long-term roadmap for the content management platform • Direct design decisions around scalability, performance, and cost across backend services and AWS infrastructure • Establish and maintain uptime and reliability standards for a production platform serving external customers at scale • Evaluate and guide the platform's modern web rendering strategy • Partner with editorial stakeholders to translate newsroom workflows into platform requirements • Direct the roadmap for editorial tooling and identify opportunities for AI-assisted content workflows • Lead platform delivery teams, including release management and production support • Own technical execution of the platform transition and establish metrics tracking platform health and operational risk • Build, mentor, and lead a multi-team engineering organization including managers and individual contributors • Foster a high-performing culture across distributed teams • Communicate technical strategy and tradeoffs to engineers, product partners, executives, and customers • Champion AI upskilling and adoption programs across the engineering organization

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience • 10+ years in software engineering • 4+ years managing engineers, including experience managing managers or leading multiple teams • Experience owning a production platform serving external customers at scale • Experience with Agile methodologies and DevOps practices • Deep knowledge of AWS, serverless architecture, and distributed systems • Strong grasp of modern web rendering, including server-side rendering, client-side rendering, React, and build tooling • Working knowledge of HTTP, caching semantics, and CDN behavior in high-traffic environments • Experience with microservices architecture • Experience with Docker and Kubernetes • Experience with test automation frameworks • Experience with browser and system performance testing methodologies • Ability to communicate technical concepts credibly to engineers, product partners, executives, and customers • Demonstrated ability to build and lead high-performing technical teams across multiple functions • Relocation support and minimal travel available upon discussion

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year • Flexible vacation • Two company-wide Mental Health Days off • Access to the Headspace app • Retirement savings • Tuition reimbursement • Employee incentive programs • Resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing • Two paid volunteer days off annually • Pro-bono consulting projects and ESG initiatives • Health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs • Competitive 401k plan with company match • Sick and safe paid time off • Paid holidays, including two company mental health days off • Parental leave • Sabbatical leave • Optional hospital, accident and sickness insurance • Optional life and AD&D insurance • Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts • Fitness reimbursement • Employee Assistance Program • Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit • 529 Plan • Commuter benefits • Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance • Employee Stock Purchase Plan • Annual Bonus based on enterprise and individual performance