Principal Engineer
Thomson Reuters1 day ago
Base Salary
$159k - $295k/yr
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership, mentorship, strategic direction, and engineering standards across multiple projects or domains.
- Identify opportunities for AI-powered product features, enhancements, and product expansions, and assess emerging technologies.
- Establish technical governance covering coding standards, design patterns, development methodologies, quality, scalability, and consistency.
- Develop the technical roadmap for the product line’s technology stack, infrastructure, and development processes.
- Evaluate technology risks and trade-offs, communicate technical decisions, and lead design reviews for scalable, performant, and maintainable solutions.
- Lead troubleshooting and resolution of complex technical issues and document solutions clearly.
- Represent the company as a technical expert in industry forums, conferences, and events.
- Modernize complex legacy web applications into cloud-native solutions while supporting the transition to next-generation systems.
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 computer science fundamentals in data structures and algorithm design, strong .NET programming experience, object-oriented design, SOLID, DRY, DDD, and database design principles.
- Experience applying architecture and design patterns to complex business problems.
- Experience designing and developing customer-facing, high-traffic 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 public cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS and services including EC2, S3, ALB, Auto Scaling, RDS, Lambda, SQS, and containers.
- Ability to mentor others and promote DevOps practices, AI developer tools, and test-driven development.
- Preferred experience building or integrating production AI/ML, Generative AI, LLM, RAG, or intelligent automation capabilities into customer-facing products.
- Preferred experience with regulated, high-availability, business-critical, reliable, performant, secure, compliant systems with SLA requirements.
- Preferred experience providing technical leadership across multiple engineering teams and cross-functional stakeholders.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including the ability to influence across organizational boundaries, navigate ambiguity, make data-driven decisions, and deliver results.
Benefits
- Flexible hybrid work model for office-based roles.
- Flexible work arrangements, including the ability to work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year.
- Career development, continuous learning, skills development, and Grow My Way programming.
- Comprehensive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance benefits, plus a 401(k) plan with company match.
- Flexible vacation, sick and safe paid time off, paid holidays, two company-wide mental health days, parental leave, and sabbatical leave.
- Access to Headspace, fitness reimbursement, Employee Assistance Program, tuition reimbursement, flexible spending and health savings accounts, commuter benefits, and an employee stock purchase plan.
- Two paid volunteer days annually and opportunities for pro-bono consulting and ESG initiatives.
- The role uses a US hybrid work arrangement and may also be eligible for an annual bonus.
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.