Senior Mobile Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer – Mobile Development - Reuters

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.

About the Role:

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

• Lead the technical design and development for Reuters' React Native cross-platform mobile application.
• Implement new features for the React Native mobile application by integrating headless CMS and other backend services.
• Develop React Native components and screens following best practices and design patterns.
• Develop and execute unit and integration testing using React Native Testing Library, 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 organizational standards, software best practice guidelines, and corporate policies.
• Communicate clearly and effectively via GitHub, Slack, MS Teams, ADO etc., to keep all stakeholders in the loop on relevant issues.
• Architect a React Native cross-platform application to maximize code reuse across iOS and Android platforms.
• Participate in production troubleshooting and remediation for React Native applications.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and software development lifecycles, including code review and deployment.
• Conduct regular code reviews to ensure a quality product.

About You:

• 6-8 years of experience in mobile application development with at least 5 years of hands-on React Native development building production applications.
• Demonstrable portfolio of React Native applications released on Apple App Store and Google Play Store.
• Proven expertise in React Native design patterns, including hooks, context API, navigation, and state management.
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript and TypeScript within the React Native ecosystem.
• Deep understanding of React Native bridge and native modules, with working knowledge of Kotlin and Swift for implementing platform specific features and troubleshooting native issues.
• Strong Computer Science fundamentals, including data structures and algorithms.
• Strong understanding of software engineering best practices, including coding patterns, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and monitoring.
• Experienced in comprehensive CI/CD-based React Native workflows, including automated builds, unit testing, beta distribution, and seamless deployment to app stores.
• Proficiency in working with APIs, including hands-on experience designing, consuming, and integrating RESTful and GraphQL APIs into React Native applications.
• Experience with React Native third-party libraries and managing dependencies.
• Familiarity with React Native development tools and technologies such as React Native CLI, Metro bundler, Flipper, VSCode, Xcode, Android Studio, Gradle, CocoaPods, and npm/yarn.
• Experience with React Native debugging tools and performance optimization techniques.
• Working knowledge of software development methodologies like Agile, Scrum, and Kanban.
• Familiarity with Content Management Systems (CMS) and their integration with React Native applications.
• Solid understanding of Design Systems, UX (User Experience), and UI (User Interface) principles in React Native context.
• Knowledge of in app advertising and digital subscriptions implementation in React Native.
• Expertise in React Native application performance benchmarking, optimization, and monitoring using tools like Flipper and crash reporting platforms.

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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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Experience Level

Senior Level