Principal Engineer
Thomson Reuters1 day ago
Base Salary
$183k - $340k/yr
Responsibilities
- Set technical direction, engineering standards, governance, and roadmaps across multiple projects or domains.
- Design architecture and lead development of large-scale, scalable, reliable, resilient, cloud-native systems, distributed services, APIs, and customer-facing products.
- Remain hands-on throughout product development, deployment, scaling, modernization, and ongoing support.
- Lead design reviews, evaluate technical risks and trade-offs, and ensure performance, scalability, maintainability, and consistency.
- Build or integrate AI-powered, generative AI, LLM, RAG, or intelligent automation capabilities into customer-facing products.
- Mentor software engineers, promote best practices, and foster continuous learning and development.
- Lead troubleshooting and resolution of complex technical issues and communicate technical decisions to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Collaborate across Product, Engineering, Security, QA, Data, and Operations.
- Represent the company as a technical expert in industry forums, conferences, and events.
Requirements
- 10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience developing scalable and resilient web-based products and solutions.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- Strong recent hands-on experience with C#/.NET Core and AWS.
- Strong computer science fundamentals, data structures, algorithm design, object-oriented design, SOLID, DRY, DDD, and database design principles.
- Experience applying architecture and design patterns to complex business problems and owning architecture for large-scale production systems.
- Experience designing and developing high-traffic, performant REST APIs using ASP.NET or similar frameworks; API gateway experience is a plus.
- Expertise with modern UI frameworks such as React or Angular, TypeScript, Node.js, and Python.
- Experience with AI technologies including prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, and fine-tuning.
- Experience with AWS public cloud infrastructure, including EC2, S3, ALB, Auto Scaling, RDS, Lambda, SQS, and containers.
- Experience building enterprise distributed systems, microservices, APIs, and cloud-native applications.
- Experience building or integrating production AI/ML, generative AI, LLM, RAG, or intelligent automation capabilities into customer-facing products.
- Experience modernizing complex legacy web applications into cloud-native solutions.
- Demonstrated ability to launch products, platforms, services, APIs, or major capabilities from concept or prototype through production while defining architecture, service boundaries, standards, and delivery practices.
- Ability to mentor others, promote DevOps practices, AI development tools, and test-driven development.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to influence across organizational boundaries, navigate ambiguity, make data-driven decisions, and deliver results.
- Willingness to learn and support the legacy codebase during transition to the next generation.
- Candidates outside the Washington, DC area must be willing and able to travel to the Washington, DC office as needed.
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.
- Flexible vacation, paid holidays, two company-wide Mental Health Days, parental leave, sabbatical leave, and paid sick and safe time off.
- Health, dental, vision, disability, life insurance, 401(k) with company match, optional insurance programs, and flexible spending and health savings accounts.
- Headspace access, fitness reimbursement, Employee Assistance Program, commuter benefits, and financial wellbeing resources.
- Tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, and adoption and surrogacy assistance.
- Two paid volunteer days annually and opportunities for pro-bono and ESG initiatives.
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.