Software Engineer, Legislation (1 Year Contrct)

Description

You will join the software engineering team for legislation, keeping the company's legislation publishing and AI-driven products current and improving them.

The company supplies trusted content and technology to professionals in legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government and media. Reuters, part of the company, provides journalism and news.

The company has about 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries and offers flexible working arrangements.

Responsibilities

• Plan and carry out maintenance and development on the legislation platform with the core technical team and the global technology, product and delivery partners.
• Help migrate and modernise platform content across the company's content systems, its legal research application and related cloud platforms and services.
• Help move source code from existing repositories into company-managed tooling, and support the move from Jira to Azure DevOps (ADO).
• Support migration of data and CRM records, such as Capsule CRM and Xero data, into company systems, and help validate those systems before legacy ones are shut down.
• Help with the platform's cloud and infrastructure migration by assessing current on-premises, third-party and cloud environments, then helping move them to company-hosted infrastructure.
• Modernise a Perl 5.8 system to the latest version of Perl.
• Support identity and platform work, including SSO configuration, monitoring and observability with tools such as Datadog, and compliance needs such as Australian data residency.
• Join technical discovery sessions with internal teams and external delivery partners to document the platform's current capabilities and architecture.
• Write clear technical documentation, migration runbooks and handover notes so knowledge carries over as legacy systems are retired.
• Join regular check-ins and status updates with local technical experts and project teams, raising risks, blockers and dependencies early.

Requirements

• You hold a bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering or information technology, or have equivalent practical experience.
• You can work independently while collaborating closely with a small, distributed team across time zones, including Australia and the company's teams worldwide.
• You write clearly and document technical decisions so they make sense to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• You can handle changing scope and several workstreams at once, and set priorities pragmatically.
• You have solid hands-on development experience, ideally in data migration, system integration or platform consolidation.
• You have moved applications or data from on-premises or third-party hosted environments into a cloud platform.
• You have migrated data or CRM records, for example moving them out of a legacy CRM such as Capsule into a new platform.
• You have worked across a range of languages and toolsets, such as Perl, C,.NET, Java, JavaScript, Grunt and Gradle.
• Preferred: experience with SSO or identity integration, enterprise security, or data residency requirements.
• Preferred: background in legal, publishing or content-heavy platforms. Experience with Westlaw, Lexis or similar legal research systems is a strong plus.
• Preferred: exposure to observability and monitoring tools such as Datadog.
• Preferred: experience working alongside external delivery vendors or contractors on a shared codebase or migration plan.

Conditions

This is a one-year contract position.

Hybrid working applies to office-based roles.

The company is an equal employment opportunity employer and a drug-free workplace, considers applicants without regard to race, color, sex or gender (including pregnancy, gender identity and expression), national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status or other characteristics protected by law, and makes reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and sincerely held religious beliefs.

Benefits

• Flex My Way policies that help balance family, community and personal time, plus flexible work options including up to 8 weeks a year working remotely from anywhere.
• Learning support through Grow My Way programs and a skills-first approach aimed at AI-enabled work.
• Flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and wellbeing support covering mind, body and money.
• Two paid volunteer days each year through the Social Impact Institute, along with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.