Senior Software Engineer
Thomson Reuters1 day ago
Base Salary
$102k - $190k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build production backend services using Python, FastAPI, and PostgreSQL for AI-powered interactions and large-scale data flows.
- Define service boundaries, interfaces, and scalable architecture for AI products.
- Integrate backend systems with LLM providers and implement orchestration, routing, error handling, guardrails, telemetry, and observability.
- Strengthen cloud-native automation and delivery workflows for reliable production systems.
- Collaborate with Labs, product managers, and designers to turn early AI agent concepts into scalable features.
- Mentor engineers through pairing, code reviews, and ongoing technical guidance.
Requirements
- At least 4 years of professional software engineering experience building and shipping production backend systems, APIs, and microservices.
- Strong proficiency in Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, and AWS or Azure cloud services.
- Deep understanding of distributed systems, software architecture, and data modeling.
- Strong debugging skills and a demonstrated ability to deliver reliable, production-ready systems.
- Strong cross-functional communication skills and comfort working in fast-paced, iterative environments.
- Preferred: BA or BS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
- Preferred: experience optimizing backend performance through monitoring, profiling, and tuning.
- Preferred: hands-on experience with agentic AI workflows, LLM APIs, tool and API orchestration, RAG pipelines, Claude Agent SDK, or AgentCore.
- Preferred: experience with Agentic UI, SSE/AG-UI streaming semantics, TypeScript, or React.
- Preferred: experience with Datadog, CloudWatch Log Insights, or Braintrust.
- Preferred: familiarity with vector databases, model serving, and LLM cost and latency optimization.
- Preferred: experience with testing, automation, operational robustness, or products in legal, compliance, or other regulated professional domains.
Benefits
- Flexible hybrid work model for office-based roles.
- Ability to work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, along with flexible work-life policies.
- Career development, continuous learning, and skills-development programming.
- Comprehensive benefits including flexible vacation, two company-wide mental health days, Headspace access, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, incentive programs, and wellbeing resources.
- US benefits include health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance, 401(k) matching, paid holidays, parental and sabbatical leave, employee assistance, commuter benefits, adoption and surrogacy assistance, and an 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.