Staff Software Engineer

About the role

This role is backend-leaning and involves designing and building scalable backend services and APIs that power Noetica's document analysis platform. You will work closely with a talented team of AI/ML PhDs, legal SMEs, and market strategists to design, build, and maintain scalable backend services.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable backend services and APIs that power our document analysis platform
• Write maintainable, high-performance server-side code and data processing pipelines
• Define clear, efficient API contracts and contribute to service architecture decisions
• Design and craft compositional API primitives to expedite the productionization of our ever-growing list of document insights
• Build and maintain integrations with third-party services and internal ML systems
• Contribute to frontend features and components as needed to deliver features end-to-end
• Take ownership in engineering excellence and collaborate on code practices and design patterns to ensure long-term maintainability and scalability
• Take ownership in developer experience by improving/automating CI/CD and other day-to-day production operations

Requirements

You are a fit for the role of Staff Engineer, AI if your background includes:

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
• 7-10 years of professional full-stack development experience with a strong focus on backend systems
• Proficiency in backend technologies (Node.js, Python, or Go) and API design
• Strong understanding of RESTful APIs, database design, and data modeling
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases
• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration platforms (Docker, Kubernetes) and hyperscalers (AWS, GCP, etc.)
• Proficiency in TypeScript and React for frontend work
• Foundation in distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and web fundamentals
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Self-starting problem-solving approach biased towards action and scope minimization

Qualifications

Additional Preferred Qualifications Include:

• Experience with microservices architecture and message queues
• Understanding of CI/CD fundamentals and experience working in single-tenant architectures
• Experience building data processing pipelines or working with large-scale data systems
• Familiarity with object-oriented design and functional programming principles
• Experience optimizing backend performance for data-intensive applications
• Interest in language and economics
• Thrives in a high-leverage, fast-paced environment
• Familiar with technologies like monorepo, jujutsu, mise, pprof, etc.

What’s in it for you?

Hybrid Work Model: We've adopted a flexible hybrid working environment for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.

Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.

Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.

Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.

Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.

Making a Real-World Impact: We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

Our use of AI within the recruitment process: Thomson Reuters utilizes Artificial Intelligence (AI) to support parts of our global recruitment process. Unless you opt-out, our AI system will assess the information provided by you and compare it to the requirements listed for the role, and present the result to our recruitment personnel for further review. The AI system acts as a supporting tool, but there is always a human making the decision if you will be considered for the role.

About Us: Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency.