Lead Software Engineer

Reuters; Ann Arbor (MI); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Flexible work-life balance

Career development & growth

Comprehensive benefits

Two Paid volunteer days

Job summary

Reuters is seeking a Lead Software Engineer in a hybrid US-based role, with 10+ years in building scalable enterprise software. You will design and operate REST APIs, microservices, and cloud-native platforms using C#, .NET, ASP.NET Core, and modern front-end tech.

You will mentor engineers, drive security, observability, and CI/CD across teams to deliver reliable customer-facing services. You will collaborate with product, architecture, security, and operations to modernize applications,

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software development
• Experience designing REST APIs and microservices
• Public cloud experience in AWS/Azure/GCP
• Strong Angular/TypeScript front-end exposure
• CI/CD and DevOps practices

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain REST APIs and microservices
• Build secure, scalable cloud-native services
• Lead architecture discussions and code reviews
• Mentor engineers and ensure code quality
• Collaborate across product, security, and operations teams

Skills

C# & .NET

API development

Microservices

Cloud-native

Angular & TypeScript

CI/CD & DevOps

Security & observability

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS/Azure/GCP

Job description

Lead Software Engineer page is loaded## Lead Software Engineerremote type: Hybridlocations: United States of America, Ann Arbor, Michigan: United States of America, Frisco, Texas: United States of America, Eagan, Minnesotatime type: Full timeposted on: Posted Todaytime left to apply: End Date: November 30, 2026 (30+ days left to apply)job requisition id: JREQ204101**Job Description**We are seeking a highly skilled **Lead Software Engineer** with 10+ years of experience designing, building, and operating scalable enterprise software solutions. The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in **C#, .NET, cloud-native application development, microservices architecture, and API engineering**, with experience delivering secure, resilient, and customer-facing platforms.This role will play a key part in building and evolving **external and internal APIs**, modernizing applications into cloud-native services, and delivering highly available solutions that serve customers at scale. The successful candidate will collaborate across engineering, product, architecture, security, and operations teams to design and implement modern software systems that are secure, observable, resilient, and maintainable.## Key Responsibilities* Design, develop, and maintain **external and internal RESTful APIs**, microservices, and backend platforms using **C#, .NET, ASP.NET Core**, and cloud-native architectural patterns.* Build scalable, secure, and highly available services that support customer-facing products, third-party integrations, and enterprise workflows.* Lead the design and implementation of **microservice-based architectures**, including service decomposition, API contracts, event-driven patterns, observability, resiliency, and performance optimization.* Design and implement cloud-native solutions leveraging modern cloud platforms and services, including containerization, orchestration, infrastructure automation, monitoring, and continuous delivery practices.* Develop modern web applications using **Angular, TypeScript, HTML, CSS**, and contemporary front-end development frameworks and practices.* Collaborate with product managers, architects, UX designers, and engineering teams to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions and implementation plans.* Drive engineering excellence through adoption of software design principles, code quality standards, test automation, CI/CD pipelines, and Agile delivery practices.* Take ownership of technical design decisions, architecture reviews, code reviews, and mentoring engineers across the team.* Define and implement comprehensive testing strategies including unit testing, integration testing, API testing, automation frameworks, and quality gates to ensure production-ready software.* Proactively address security throughout the software lifecycle by implementing secure coding practices, supporting vulnerability remediation, addressing penetration test findings, and ensuring compliance with security and regulatory requirements.* Leverage AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude, and related technologies to improve engineering productivity, code quality, testing, troubleshooting, and documentation while ensuring responsible and secure usage.* Stay current on emerging technologies, cloud platforms, API ecosystems, AI-assisted development, and modern software engineering practices, bringing innovative ideas to the organization.## Required Qualifications* 10+ years of professional software development experience, with significant hands-on expertise in **C#, .NET, ASP.NET Core, API development, and distributed systems**.* Proven experience designing, developing, and supporting **external and internal REST APIs** consumed by customers, partners, and internal applications.* Strong experience building and operating **microservices-based architectures**, including service communication patterns, scalability, resiliency, monitoring, and troubleshooting.* Hands-on experience developing solutions in public cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.* Strong proficiency with Angular (Angular 16+ preferred), TypeScript, component-based architecture, state management, routing, and API integration.* Experience with containerization and modern deployment technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, AKS, or similar platforms.* Strong understanding of cloud-native engineering principles including observability, logging, monitoring, distributed tracing, fault tolerance, and operational excellence.* Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps practices for automated build, deployment, testing, and release management.* Experience with relational databases, SQL, Entity Framework, data access patterns, and API-centric application design.* Experience using source control and collaborative development workflows with Git and GitHub.* Excellent communication, mentoring, and cross-functional collaboration skills.## Preferred Qualifications* Experience with **C++ development**, including object-oriented programming, performance optimization, debugging, and integration with existing platforms or services.* Experience building customer-facing platforms, SaaS applications, developer platforms, or public API ecosystems.* Experience with event-driven architectures, asynchronous messaging, and technologies such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS/SNS, or similar messaging frameworks.* Knowledge of API gateway technologies, API security standards (OAuth, OpenID Connect, JWT), and API lifecycle management.#LI-GK1* **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.* **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.In the United States, Thomson Reuters offers a comprehensive benefits package to our employees. Our benefit package includes market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and