Software Engineer
Thomson Reuters1 day ago
Toronto, Canada +3 moreEntry Level / Mid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$82k - $152k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and ship AI agentic features end to end from requirements through design, implementation, review, and production.
- Design and build backend services with Python, FastAPI, and PostgreSQL for real-time AI interactions and large-scale data flows.
- Integrate LLM providers and implement orchestration, routing, error handling, guardrails, telemetry, and observability.
- Strengthen CI/CD pipelines and DevOps automation for stable cloud-native development workflows.
- Use AI coding and testing tools and incorporate AI capabilities into product solutions where appropriate.
- Diagnose production issues, perform root cause analysis, troubleshoot unfamiliar code, and address automated quality findings.
- Contribute to automated testing strategy, continuous integration and delivery, and feature-level test coverage.
- Collaborate with Product, Design, Labs, and other teams while participating in design discussions and agile ceremonies.
- Share knowledge and support colleagues as the team grows.
Requirements
- 1-3+ years of professional software development experience.
- Working knowledge of Python and experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP cloud services.
- Understanding of RESTful API design, distributed systems, microservices architecture, and SQL and NoSQL databases.
- Strong debugging skills and demonstrated ability to deliver reliable, production-ready systems.
- Strong cross-functional communication and ability to work in fast-paced, iterative environments.
- Demonstrated ability to learn quickly and teach oneself new skills that are subsequently shipped.
- BA or BS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience is preferred.
- Experience optimizing backend performance through monitoring, profiling, and tuning is preferred.
- Experience building AI-powered features, agentic workflows, tool or API orchestration, LLM APIs, RAG pipelines, Claude Agent SDK, or AgentCore is preferred.
- Experience with agentic UI, SSE/AG-UI streaming semantics, TypeScript, and React is preferred.
- Experience with Datadog, CloudWatch Log Insights, and Braintrust is preferred.
- Familiarity with vector databases, model serving, and cost or latency optimization for LLM-powered features is preferred.
- Experience with testing, automation, operational robustness, or products in legal, compliance, or other regulated domains is preferred.
Benefits
- Flexible hybrid work model for office-based roles.
- Work-from-anywhere flexibility for up to 8 weeks per year and supportive work-life policies.
- Career development, continuous learning, Grow My Way programming, and skills-first development resources.
- Comprehensive benefits including flexible vacation, two company-wide mental health days, Headspace, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, incentive programs, and wellbeing resources.
- Health, dental, vision, disability, life insurance, 401(k) with company match, paid holidays, parental leave, sabbatical leave, and paid time off for eligible US employees.
- Additional benefits may include fitness reimbursement, employee assistance, flexible spending and health savings accounts, commuter benefits, adoption and surrogacy assistance, and employee stock purchase plan.
- Two paid volunteer days annually and opportunities for pro-bono consulting and ESG initiatives.
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About Thomson Reuters
Thomson Reuters builds research platforms, workflow software, and data services for legal, tax and accounting, compliance, and government professionals, and operates the Reuters global news service. Flagship products include Westlaw for legal research and ONESOURCE and Checkpoint for tax and accounting, sold primarily via subscriptions and enterprise licenses. A public company headquartered in Toronto, it was formed in 2008 by combining Thomson Corporation and Reuters Group and is listed on the TSX and Nasdaq as TRI.