Staff Software Engineer - II (KeyCite)
Thomson Reuters2 days ago
Toronto, CanadaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead complex engineering initiatives and deliver end-to-end solutions for large-scale, business-critical systems.
- Modernize core platforms and services while maintaining reliability for customer-facing products.
- Design distributed services, processing systems, APIs, and event-driven architectures for performance, availability, scalability, and maintainability.
- Build scalable data-processing capabilities for structured and unstructured legal content and metadata.
- Make architecture and technical-direction decisions across teams and establish reusable engineering patterns and standards.
- Champion quality, reliability, security, maintainability, observability, deployment, and operational ownership practices.
- Partner with engineering, product, architecture, and leadership stakeholders on long-term technical strategy.
- Mentor engineers, develop senior technical talent, lead design reviews, and communicate architectural trade-offs to technical and non-technical audiences.
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience designing and delivering complex production software systems.
- Deep expertise in backend and distributed systems engineering.
- Strong experience with cloud-native architectures, preferably on AWS.
- Experience designing APIs, services, event-driven architectures, large-scale data processing, and data pipelines.
- Strong understanding of system reliability, scalability, performance, and observability.
- Experience modernizing complex legacy or long-lived production systems without disrupting customers.
- Strong programming skills, ideally in Java and/or Python.
- Experience with automated testing, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, and production monitoring.
- Ability to influence architecture and technical direction beyond an individual team and independently navigate highly complex problems.
- Strong communication skills and experience mentoring senior engineers and raising technical standards across teams.
- Preferred: experience with high-volume content, publishing, search, information retrieval, metadata or knowledge systems, graph or relationship-oriented data models, multi-product platforms, highly available systems, legal technology, or AI-enabled applications.
Benefits
- Flexible hybrid work model for office-based roles.
- Flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year.
- Career development, continuous learning, Grow My Way programming, and skills-focused growth support.
- 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.
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.