Senior Software Engineer - NodeJS

Senior Software Development Engineer -Backend- Reuters Reuters is the world’s largest multimedia news provider, reaching billions of people every day and employing over 2,700 journalists in nearly 200 locations. Consumers, the media, and financial markets trust us to provide real-time text, images, and video news across every content category.

Reuters.com and related mobile apps are consumer-facing product platforms that enable our target customers to access all the content they need from a single destination. We are investing in our next generation of Reuters.com to make content discovery quicker and easier, improve client curation, and enable our targeted audience to consume more relevant stories (to their areas of interest) faster than ever before. We’re looking for colleagues who relish the nimbleness, creativity, and entrepreneurship required by our multimedia products. This position is based in our Bangalore, India, office, and you’ll work as part of a productive team with fun, friendly, and skilled co-workers.

The Client Application Technology team is dedicated to creating compelling experiences that deliver Reuters’ outstanding journalism to the world’s most informed professionals. The team aims to increase discovery, optimise conversion, and drive engagement across Thomson Reuters products and services. The technology focuses on web development and substantial backend service integration.

You will work with a distributed team of software developers, quality engineers, and product managers focused on developing and integrating platforms and services that power Reuters experiences, including content creation, curation, publishing, distribution, and e-commerce.

As an experienced technologist, you’ll lead the development of solutions that scale and will consistently innovate. You will work closely with solution architects and senior software engineers to develop high-quality, maintainable software.

Major Responsibilities The Senior Software Development Engineer will be responsible for all aspects of key software deliverables, from understanding business requirements and planning activities to developing code and proactively managing risks. We expect your work to demonstrate a strong technical background and a commitment to writing concise, scalable code. You will collaborate with fellow engineers to share knowledge, design, develop, test, and deploy software. Additionally, you will help coordinate with development partners to ensure features are released on time and within budget. You will modify existing software to fix errors or enhance performance when necessary.

You will provide leadership and adhere to standards and best practices for software development and developer productivity. You will maintain long-term client relationships and networks.

About The Role-

• Must have 2 years of experience building applications/platforms with cloud native/microservice architecture, including experience with IaaS, PaaS, and container deployment.
• Must have 3 years of experience with modern collaborative development tools (Git, CI/CD pipelines)
• Employers will accept any suitable combination of education, training, or experience.
• Drive predictability in the project outcomes through process and diligent oversight.
• Actively contribute to the evolution of processes and standards. Lead improvement efforts.
• Promote more effective use of productivity tools.
• Follow Agile development methodologies and mentor team members in this area.

About You -

• 6-8 years of professional backend engineering experience.
• Strong proficiency in Java and TypeScript with Node.js frameworks
• Solid experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs; familiarity with GraphQL is a plus.
• Expertise with relational databases (PostgreSQL/MySQL) and one or more NoSQL stores (Redis, MongoDB, DynamoDB, or similar); strong SQL skills and data modelling.
• Hands-on with cloud platforms (AWS) and containerization/orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• CI/CD practices and tooling (GitHub Actions).
• Knowledge of security best practices, such as OAuth2/OIDC, JWT, TLS, secrets management, and least privilege (IAM).
• Strong testing culture: unit/integration/e2e testing, contract testing (JUnit, Jest, Testcontainers, Pact).
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and system design skills.

What’s in it For You?

• Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-…