Software Development Engineer - Pagero

Thomson Reuters Foundation; Langenfeld (Rheinland); Hybrid; EUR 65,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Flexible benefits

Mental health days

Headspace access

Tuition reimbursement

Volunteer days

Job summary

Thomson Reuters Foundation, with Pagero, is building the world’s largest open business network. You will design, develop, and maintain secure, scalable enterprise applications, working across cross-functional teams to deliver RESTful APIs and microservices on a cloud-based platform.

You’ll contribute to testing, DevOps, and continuous improvements, while collaborating in an Agile/Scrum environment and ensuring secure, high-quality software across the stack.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software development experience.
• Experience designing, building, and maintaining web applications or backend services in a production environment.
• Solid understanding of RESTful API design and microservices architecture.
• Experience working with SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Familiarity with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Working knowledge of CI/CD tools, such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI.
• Strong problem-solving, debugging, and analytical skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively and collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Commitment to building secure, scalable, and high-quality software.
• Ability to successfully pass an extended background check.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain end-to-end web applications, including solutions built on the InterSystems IRIS platform.
• Develop and maintain RESTful APIs, backend services, and microservices.
• Collaborate with UI/UX designers, backend engineers, product teams, and other stakeholders to deliver intuitive, reliable solutions.
• Integrate applications with relational and NoSQL data stores, including InterSystems IRIS, PostgreSQL, and Amazon S3.
• Build automated tests and contribute to quality practices throughout the software delivery lifecycle.
• Optimize applications for performance, scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
• Apply secure development practices to protect applications and customer data.
• Participate actively in Agile/Scrum ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Support troubleshooting, debugging, and resolution of production issues as needed.
• Contribute to continuous improvements in engineering processes, tooling, code quality, and documentation.

Skills

RESTful API design

Microservices

SQL

NoSQL

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Problem solving

Communication

Security minded

Background check

Tools

InterSystems IRIS

PostgreSQL

Amazon S3

Job description

Job Description Pagero, now part of Thomson Reuters, is building the world’s largest open business network. Through our cloud-based network, customers can connect with any business, anywhere in the world, regardless of how many borders their operations cross. We manage the technical and regulatory requirements across order-to-cash, purchase-to-pay, and freight processes, providing customers with data accuracy, security, transparency, and real-time visibility through a single connection. As a Software Development Engineer, you will contribute to the design, development, and maintenance of secure, scalable enterprise applications. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality solutions that support our global network and customers.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain end-to-end web applications, including solutions built on the InterSystems IRIS platform.
• Develop and maintain RESTful APIs, backend services, and microservices.
• Collaborate with UI/UX designers, backend engineers, product teams, and other stakeholders to deliver intuitive, reliable solutions.
• Integrate applications with relational and NoSQL data stores, including InterSystems IRIS, PostgreSQL, and Amazon S3.
• Build automated tests and contribute to quality practices throughout the software delivery lifecycle.
• Optimize applications for performance, scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
• Apply secure development practices to protect applications and customer data.
• Participate actively in Agile/Scrum ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Support troubleshooting, debugging, and resolution of production issues as needed.
• Contribute to continuous improvements in engineering processes, tooling, code quality, and documentation.

Required Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software development experience.
• Experience designing, building, and maintaining web applications or backend services in a production environment.
• Solid understanding of RESTful API design and microservices architecture.
• Experience working with SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Familiarity with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Working knowledge of CI/CD tools, such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI.
• Strong problem-solving, debugging, and analytical skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively and collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Commitment to building secure, scalable, and high-quality software.
• Ability to successfully pass an extended background check.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with InterSystems technologies, including InterSystems IRIS, Caché, or Ensemble.
• Experience with supply-chain interoperability formats, such as EDIFACT/EANCOM, XML, X12, or IDOC.
• Experience with healthcare interoperability formats, such as HL7, FHIR, or X12.
• Experience with interoperability protocols, including SFTP, AS2, and HTTPS.
• Experience with messaging platforms or queues, such as RabbitMQ or ActiveMQ.
• Familiarity with cloud-based enterprise platforms and distributed systems.
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development environment.

What’s in it For You?

• 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.
• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.
• Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.
• Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
• Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.
• Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.
• Making a Real-World Impact:We are one of the few companies globally 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.

About Us

Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news. 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. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness, and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them.

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 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. More information on requesting an accommodation here.

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At Thomson Reuters, we’re not riding the AI wave — we’re reshaping the future of professional work across law, tax, compliance, and journalism. Here, you will collaborate with smart, ambitious people who thrive on solving complex problems, delivering market‑leading solutions, and innovating with curiosity and care.

As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business 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 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.