Team Lead, Software Engineering

Do you have broad experience as a software engineer, and want to lead your own team? Are you passionate about delivering valuable features using engineering best practices in a supportive agile team setting? If so, then come join the FindLaw technology group as a Team Lead where you will lead the people and projects for a group responsible for a consumer-facing platform used to manage and host over 6000 websites.

FindLaw is the leading provider of business marketing solutions for law firms and has the largest online destination for people with legal needs (www.findlaw.com). Our integrated marketing solutions help law firms grow their practice through strategic digital marketing approaches that drive results. As part of Thomson Reuters, we have access to extensive resources and use industry leading tools and technologies to enable our success.

About the Role

As a Team Lead, you will:

• Manage a global team of engineers, setting goals, sharing performance feedback, providing career coaching, and hiring as needed.
• Lead the agile team to collect, prioritize, refine, plan, and deliver committed features each release.
• Display accountability to customers for the quality of deliverables, and urgency for health of the Production application.
• Champion engineering standards and best practices to be applied consistently.
• Provide technical leadership to ensure non-functional requirements are baked-into everything we deliver as part of a DevOps mindset.
• Build relationships with partners and stakeholders to gain trust, align expectations, and better understand or even predict customer needs.
• Communicate effectively with team members and stakeholders by showing good listening skills, clearly capturing others' ideas, and sharing complex technical topics in simple terms.
• Collaborate with others to share information, recognize the value of diverse ideas, and deliver results across teams.
• Share innovative ideas that leverage the latest industry trends to address business needs and provide customer value.
• Adapt and adjust to the dynamic nature of the digital marketing business.

About You

You are a fit if you have:

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years professional software engineering experience in an enterprise environment.
• Team and/or project leadership experience.
• Experience coaching and mentoring junior engineers.
• 2+ years of experience working on an agile team, and preferably ScrumMaster certified.
• Web application development experience including UI, ReSTful APIs, databases, and networking.
• Knowledge of CI/CD, release processes, and familiarity with tools like Jenkins and GitHub Actions.
• Design and development experience with public-facing enterprise applications.
• Experience with support and maintenance activities, including operations and vendor partners.
• Experience with software quality assurance best practices and tools.
• Experience writing and using automated unit tests to validate and maintain code quality.
• Familiarity with technologies including Java, PHP, WordPress, CDN, SQL, S3, and EC2.
• Familiarity with mobile and cross-browser functional testing as well as an awareness of common web development pitfalls and solutions.

What's in it For You?

You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through:

• 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.
• Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.
• Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; work from another location for up to a total of 8 weeks in a year, 4 of those weeks can be out of the country and the remaining in the country, Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
• Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters cafe networking.
• Social Impact: Eight employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact.
• Purpose Driven Work: We have a superpower that we've never talked about with as much pride as we should - we are one of the only companies on the planet 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.

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Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we've been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world's most global news services - Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.

We are powered by the talents of 25,000 employees across more than 75 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

Accessibility

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our 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/Affirmative Action 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.

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