Lead Software Engineer

Thomson Reuters•Ann Arbor, MI

19d•Hybrid

About The Position

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.

Requirements

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.

Nice To Haves

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.

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.

Benefits

Flexible hybrid working environment
Flex My Way supportive workplace policies
Work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year
Career Development and Growth opportunities
Grow My Way programming
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
Opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives
Market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs
Competitive 401k plan with company match
Competitive vacation, sick and safe paid time off
Paid holidays
Parental leave
Sabbatical leave
Optional hospital, accident and sickness insurance paid 100% by the employee
Optional life and AD&D insurance paid 100% by the employee
Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts
Fitness reimbursement
Access to Employee Assistance Program
Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit paid 100% by employee
Access to 529 Plan
Commuter benefits
Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance
Access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan