Senior Software Engineer – AI, Tax and Audit, FDE
Thomson Reuters5 days ago
Base Salary
$118k - $220k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own client delivery for simpler builds and standard integrations, translating business needs into technical scope, working solutions, and handoffs.
- Build production AI applications including RAG pipelines, custom agents, and multi-step agentic workflows for tax and audit use cases.
- Develop scalable, secure, maintainable backend services and integrate solutions with Thomson Reuters products and client systems.
- Establish AI evaluation, observability, monitoring, tracing, benchmarking, and adversarial testing practices.
- Translate tax rules and audit procedures into engineering plans, prototypes, and measurable evaluation criteria.
- Manage delivery across multiple client engagements and contribute technical judgment during discovery, prototyping, and pre-sales discussions.
- Support deployments through stabilization, incident resolution, runbooks, support handoffs, and reusable engineering components.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of software engineering experience with system design, distributed systems, and maintainable software architecture.
- At least 2 years of hands-on experience building and deploying AI/ML or LLM-powered applications in production.
- Strong Python and backend engineering proficiency, including asynchronous services and event-driven systems.
- Hands-on experience with RAG architectures, vector databases, and AI orchestration frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, PydanticAI, or AutoGen.
- Experience deploying secure applications on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud with Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, observability, and AI evaluation tooling.
- Ability to lead client discussions, explain technical tradeoffs, solve ambiguous problems, and own delivery across competing priorities.
- Preferred experience includes Thomson Reuters tax and accounting products, consulting or professional services, MCP servers or AI-agent tool integrations, and regulated domains requiring accuracy, traceability, and audit trails.
- Preferred tooling experience includes Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, LangSmith, Langfuse, Braintrust, or Weights & Biases.
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, and skills-development programs.
- Comprehensive benefits including flexible vacation, mental health days, Headspace access, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, incentive programs, and wellbeing resources.
- Two paid volunteer days annually plus pro-bono consulting and ESG opportunities.
- US benefits include health, dental, vision, disability, life insurance, 401(k) matching, paid holidays, parental leave, sabbatical leave, commuter benefits, adoption and surrogacy assistance, and employee stock purchase plan.
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.