Senior Software Engineer, Thomson Reuters
Artificial Intelligence
2-3 days a week in office (Duncan Street, Toronto )
Financial news and financial data provider
Be an early applicant
Financial news and financial data provider
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
2-3 days a week in office (Duncan Street, Toronto )
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help professionals advance their businesses and gain competitive advantage with the trusted answers only we can provide.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Related Field, or Equivalent Experience
- 5+ years of hands-on software development experience in backend development, building scalable web services, and APIs
- 3+ years of hands-on Python development with experience in FastAPI (Other API Tools Acceptable) and PostgreSQL (Other SQL Tools Acceptable)
- Expertise in AWS cloud services (Redis, DynamoDB, S3, SQS, Kinesis, KMS, IAM, Secret Manager, etc) or similar cloud services
- Experience managing infrastructure with Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar IaC tooling
- Strong Data Engineering background and experience with Retrieval Systems leveraging tools like OpenSearch
- Experience implementing modern DevOps best practices in production environments (CI/CD using GitHub Actions and AWS services (Code Pipeline/Code Build)
- Experience with LLMs, AI Solutions, and evaluation and understanding of agentic systems and workflow
- Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to influence across organizational boundaries
- A pragmatic and curious mindset that drives you to find elegant solutions to complex problems
- Strong communication skills that enable you to articulate technical concepts to diverse audience
- Experience in using AI-powered tools in SDLC is required
What the job involves
- We are looking for a highly motivated and experienced Senior Software Engineer to become part of our dynamic and innovative team focused on developing content centric AI-driven solutions for legal professionals, including our flagship product, Westlaw
- In this role, you will be responsible for designing and developing both user interfaces and backend services using a micro-frontend architecture
- You will utilize technologies such as Java, React/Angular, Python, REST APIs, and AWS cloud infrastructure to deliver cutting-edge solutions
- If you love coding, join us to make a significant impact in the legal tech industry with your expertise and creativity
- Innovate, implement and operationalize in a fast-paced Environment
- Be part of a fast-moving, forward-thinking group that is creating AI-driven software for legal professionals. You’ll work with top AI and software development experts, leveraging cutting-edge technology to build intelligent and scalable systems. This role is for the developing backend services for Legal Research products
- Design and implement backend services that power generative AI agents and orchestration systems. This role requires both creativity and rigor to ensure our AI-driven solutions are performant, reliable, and adaptable to real-world use cases
- Work closely with AI/ML engineers from TR Labs, frontend developers from Westlaw UI teams, product managers, and designers to build robust services that support generative AI experiences. Help to build out our core AI interfaces such as Conversations, Workspaces, Grid, and Knowledge Base
- Develop and maintain backend services using Python, FastAPI, and PostgreSQL
- Implement AI orchestration systems integrating LLMs from OpenAI, Anthropic, and other providers
- Design APIs and backend logic for real-time AI interactions
- Help to build our content services to automate many different AI driven workflows across the legal professional domain
- Ensure backend systems are secure, scalable, and optimized for AI-driven applications
- Monitor and enhance system performance, across millions of documents and AI driven interactions
- Work closely with AI researchers, engineers, and product teams to translate AI capabilities into real-world applications
- Foster a culture of experimentation and continuous improvement, exploring new AI technologies and methodologies
Our take
Thomson Reuters is reinventing the way professionals work. The multinational media conglomerate provides answers that help professionals make better decisions to run smarter businesses. It targets those in complicated sectors that move society forward; tax, law, compliance, government, and media.
Founded over 165 years ago, the company is now powered by thousands of international journalists. This bandwidth guarantees speed, impartiality, and insight that have helped Thomson Reuters retain its position a market leader. To stay competitive with companies founded in the digital era, Thomson Reuters places emphasis on helping clients reinvent themselves for the newly disruptive digital age.
As well as investing in the coverage of growth markets India and China, and embarking on a number of fintech acquisitions, Thomson Reuters announced an expansion of its long-term partnership with the London Stock Exchange Group in 2023. Together, they plan to enhance the value of financial and market news services to LSEG customers, whilst delivering a superior experience to professionals around the world.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Global careers
- Flexibility
- Work that matters
- Employee appreciation & recognition
- 2 paid volunteer days
- Learning and development
- Parental leave
- Social events and activities
- 2 mental health days off
Company HQ
Wellington Place, Toronto, ON
Leadership
Steve Hasker
(President & CEO, not founder)Previously served as Senior Advisor for TPG, CEO for Creative Artists Agency, Global President & Chief Operating Office for Nielsen, and as a Partner for McKinsey & Company.
Salary benchmarks
We don't have enough data yet to provide salary benchmarks for this role.
Submit your salary to help other candidates with crowdsourced salary estimates.
Share this job
View 40 more jobs at Thomson Reuters