Senior Software Engineer – Mobile Development - 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.

Role Summary 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.

We are currently looking for a Mobile Senior Software Engineer for the React Native platform of the Reuters News app, who will be responsible for technical design, definition, implementation, testing, deployment, and optimisation.

As an experienced engineer, you will influence how we build features and products, as well as the best practices and patterns we use for development and automated testing. You’ll manage product implementation with your peers across the iOS and Android ecosystem.

About The Role As a Mobile Senior Software Engineer at Reuters, you will:

• Lead the technical design and development for Reuters ‘ cross-platform mobile app solution.
• Implement new features for the mobile application by integrating headless CMS and other backend services.
• Develop and execute unit and integration testing, ensuring software meets quality assurance requirements.
• Coordinate with internal teams and stakeholders and contribute to requirements analysis, product design and architecture definition.
• Develop a disciplined approach, following established software development processes, adhering to organisational standards, software best practice guidelines, and corporate policies.
• Architect a cross-platform application to maximise code reuse across web and mobile platforms.
• Participate in production troubleshooting and remediation.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and software development lifecycles, including code review and deployment.
• Conduct regular code reviews to ensure a quality product.

About You

• Proven expertise and proficiency in typical design patterns of React Native applications.
• Demonstrable portfolio of released applications on Apple or Google app stores
• Working knowledge of software development methodologies like Agile, Scrum, Kanban
• Strong Computer Science fundamentals, including data structures and algorithms.
• Experienced in comprehensive CI/CD-based mobile app workflows, including automated builds, unit testing, App Centre deployment, and seamless deployment to app stores.
• Familiarity with mobile development tools, and technologies such as React Native CLI, VSCode, XCode, Android Studio, Gradle, Cocoa pods and npm

Qualifications And Experience

• 6-8 years of experience in enterprise mobile application development.
• Comprehensive knowledge of Native mobile development languages, such as Kotlin and Swift.
• Strong understanding of software engineering best practices, including coding patterns, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and monitoring.
• Proficiency in working with APIs, including hands-on experience designing, consuming, and integrating RESTful and GraphQL APIs into mobile applications.
• Familiarity with Content Management Systems (CMS) and their integration with front-end applications.
• Solid understanding of Design Systems, UX (User Experience), and UI (User Interface) principles
• Knowledge of In-app advertising and digital subscriptions.
• Expertise in application performance benchmarking, optimisation, and monitoring.

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. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

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.

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