Senior Software Engineer I
Thomson Reuters1 day ago
Mexico City, MexicoSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, test, deploy, scale, and operate components of the Customer Files Orchestration Service.
- Design distributed systems supporting durable state, asynchronous workflows, retries, partial failures, and long-running processing.
- Build queuing, rate-limiting, backpressure, circuit-breaking, dead-letter, crash-recovery, and autoscaling capabilities.
- Implement consistency models, delivery guarantees, idempotent processing, state transitions, and recovery mechanisms.
- Develop and maintain versioned file and workspace APIs with backward-compatible documented contracts.
- Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, post-mortems, and long-term reliability improvements.
- Build instrumentation, tracing, and monitoring and automate recurring operational processes.
- Collaborate with storage, extraction, indexing, connector, and front-end engineering teams.
- Mentor engineers through code and design reviews and contribute to engineering standards.
- Support architecture, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, testing, observability, and production operations.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 3+ years of experience building production software and owning significant components in customer-facing systems.
- Extensive production experience with Python and AWS.
- Experience developing and debugging concurrent Python applications, including asyncio, event-loop behavior, background tasks, semaphores, worker pools, and throughput limitations.
- Production Kubernetes experience, including KEDA-based event-driven autoscaling, resource requests, and troubleshooting.
- Experience with large-scale orchestration services or multi-stage data pipelines.
- Understanding of consistency models, delivery guarantees, idempotent design, queues, rate limiting, backpressure, and multi-tenant fairness.
- Experience designing versioned APIs with clear ownership, backward compatibility, and documented behavior.
- Experience operating production services, participating in on-call rotations, responding to incidents, and implementing corrective actions.
- Strong fundamentals in testing, code review, observability, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Preferred experience with document management systems, extraction, OCR, format handling, large-file processing, and third-party integrations.
- Preferred experience with event-driven architectures and Kafka, MSK, SQS, or similar technologies.
- Preferred familiarity with Temporal, AWS Step Functions, retrieval or indexing pipelines for LLM or agentic applications, the legal industry, and Team Topologies concepts.
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-growth programs.
- Comprehensive benefits including flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days, Headspace access, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, incentive programs, and wellbeing resources.
- 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.