Senior Software Engineer AI
Thomson Reuters3 days ago
Base Salary
$118k - $220k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and ship scalable full-stack user interfaces, backend services, and RESTful APIs.
- Build GenAI and LLM integrations, including agentic workflows, prompt and context design, RAG, and retrieval services grounded in legal content.
- Contribute to architecture, engineering standards, code reviews, secure coding, testing, performance, scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
- Own production operations including build, deployment, monitoring, CI/CD automation, reliability, and resolution of critical production issues.
- Design and build cloud-native solutions on AWS and evaluate tool protocols such as MCP and related retrieval patterns.
- Use AI-assisted and agent-driven development across coding, review, testing, and quality evaluation with appropriate security and data-handling guardrails.
- Build evaluation, benchmarking, and monitoring practices for AI agents and measure their effect on delivery speed, quality, and defects.
- Mentor engineers and collaborate with Product, Design, and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver roadmap-aligned solutions.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of hands-on software engineering experience building scalable front-end and back-end web applications.
- Demonstrated experience shipping and operating production-grade full-stack systems at scale with secure coding and reliability practices.
- Hands-on experience building LLM systems in production or serious prototypes, including RAG, prompt and context design, evaluation, or agent workflows.
- Experience working with AI agents and applying strong review, quality, and security practices.
- Strong proficiency in Python and RESTful API design and development, including resource modeling, HTTP methods and status codes, idempotency, pagination, authentication, authorization, error handling, and API documentation.
- Working proficiency with React or a similar modern UI framework, plus TypeScript and Node.js.
- Strong knowledge of AWS architecture and services, DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure as code.
- Experience mentoring engineers and partnering with Product, Design, and cross-functional teams.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- Preferred qualifications include production AI or agentic system delivery, LLM orchestration, information retrieval, agent frameworks, MCP, OpenAI or Anthropic APIs, agent evaluation, Django, Flask, FastAPI, AWS certifications, or experience in legal or regulated domains.
Benefits
- Flexible hybrid work model for office-based roles.
- Ability to work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year.
- Flexible workplace policies supporting work-life balance and personal responsibilities.
- Comprehensive benefits including flexible vacation, two company-wide mental health days, Headspace access, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, incentive programs, and wellbeing resources.
- Health, dental, vision, disability, life insurance, 401k matching, paid holidays, parental leave, sick and safe paid time off, and other US benefits where applicable.
- Two paid volunteer days annually and opportunities for pro-bono consulting and ESG initiatives.
Tech Stack
Categories
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.