Lead Engineer C++/C#

Lead Engineer C++/C#:

Are you ready to lead the engineering charge on a cutting-edge video streaming platform - and shape the future of how the world's most trusted news organisation delivers media at scale? At Thomson Reuters, we clarify the complex - and we need a technical leader who can do the same for our codebase.

We're looking for a Full-Stack C++ / C# Lead Engineer to join our video streaming team,on a hybrid basis, ideally based betweenUKand India time zones. In this role, you'll serve as the technical lead for a team of junior and senior developers, driving quality, architecture, and delivery on a modern, evolving stack - currently around 80% C++, transitioning toward C#, with a Node.js/TypeScript component and legacy PHP being phased out.

This is a hybrid position working between UK & India time zones, with some flexibility.

About the Role

As Lead Engineer, you will be responsible for:

• Owning and driving technical leadership across a team of junior and senior developers

• Conducting thorough code reviews and maintaining high standards of code quality across the codebase

• Troubleshooting and identifying root causes of complex, cross-system issues

• Working fluidly across multiple areas of the codebase, managing frequent context switching with confidence

• Contributing to and leading architectural discussions that shape the platform's direction

• Working hands-on across our core stack: C++, C# (.NET Framework, Windows Forms, Interop), Node.js / TypeScript, Docker, and CI/CD pipelines via GitHub Actions

• Collaborating with front-end components using JavaScript / TypeScript

About You

You're a fit for the role of Lead Full-Stack Engineer if your background includes:

• Strong hands-on experience in C++ and/or C#, with the ability to work confidently across both

• We are seeking candidates with 7 - 9 years of experience for this role.

• A track record of technical leadership - you've guided and mentored teams of developers and taken ownership of engineering outcomes

• Solid experience with code reviews and a genuine commitment to code quality and best practices

• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex, cross-system problems

• Experience contributing to or leading architectural discussions and design decisions

• Familiarity with front-end technologies, particularly JavaScript / TypeScript

• Strong understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), software architecture, data structures, and critical thinking

• Excellent communication skills - you can bridge the gap between technical complexity and team clarity.

• A collaborative mindset, with the ability to lead without losing sight of the people around you.

Nice to have:

• Experience with media encoding or streaming tools (e.g. FFmpeg, ImageMagick)

• Experience with distributed systems

• Experience with Hono (Node.js framework)

• Exposure to cloud platforms, particularly AWS

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.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law. More information on requesting an accommodation here.

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