Software Engineer

Thomson Reuters; Toronto; On-site; CAD 87,000 - 137,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid Work Model

Flexible work arrangements

Mental Health Days (2 company-wide)

Tuition reimbursement

Wellbeing programs

Job summary

Thomson Reuters is seeking a Software Engineer for the Litigation Drafting team to build AI-powered features for legal workflows. You’ll work on a backend-focused role with opportunities to gain frontend skills and contribute to scalable, production-grade AI capabilities.

A fast-paced, collaborative environment awaits with ownership early on. You’ll leverage Python, FastAPI and PostgreSQL, integrate with LLM providers, and strengthen CI/CD in cloud-native environments.

Qualifications

• 1-3+ years of professional software development experience.
• Backend & Cloud Skills: Python, cloud services (AWS/Azure/GCP), RESTful API design, distributed systems, SQL/NoSQL databases.
• Excellent debugging skills and experience delivering production-ready, reliable systems.
• Strong collaboration and communication in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment.
• Demonstrated ability to learn quickly and ship solutions independently.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship AI Agentic features end to end from requirements to production.
• Design and build backend services using Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL for real-time AI interactions.
• Productionize AI capabilities with LLM providers and robust CI/CD pipelines.
• Use AI tooling to multiply productivity and apply AI where appropriate.
• Diagnose, fix, and perform root-cause analysis on production issues.
• Contribute to automated testing and CI/CD to improve delivery quality.
• Collaborate with Product, Design and Labs teams and share learnings across the team.
• Mentor teammates and help grow a culture of learning and ownership.

Skills

Python

FastAPI

PostgreSQL

AWS/Azure/GCP

RESTful APIs

Distributed systems

CI/CD

Agile

Education

BA or BS in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Datadog

CloudWatch

Agent SDK / AgentCore

TypeScript/React

LLM APIs

RAG pipelines

Job description

Job Description

As a Software Engineer on the Litigation Drafting team you will be building the next generation of AI agentic product for legal professionals. The team takes early Labs concepts and turns them into scalable, production-ready features. You will be developing a product which is pushing the boundaries of agentic design by incorporating an complex workflow UI and a specialized Legal agent.

This role is aimed at someone early in their career who wants to move quickly. You will get real ownership sooner than is typical, you will be expected to use AI tooling to multiply what one engineer can deliver - your ceiling is set by how fast you learn rather than by how long you have been doing this. This role is focused on back-end skills but there is the opportunity to get front end developer experience to develop into a full-stack engineer

We are looking for team players with a strong sense of urgency and a desire to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment who will drive the delivery of timely solutions. You are empowered to try new approaches and learn new technologies. You will have agency to contribute innovative ideas, create solutions, and will be accountable for end-to-end deliveries.

Key Responsibilities:

• Build and ship AI Agentic features end to end: Take a feature from a written requirement through design, implementation, code review and production. You will operate with a moderate level of guidance and own straightforward projects outright.

• Design and build backend services using Python,FastAPI, and PostgreSQL to support real-time AI interactions and large-scale data flows, with direct contribution to AI-powered capabilities such as agentic workflows, LLM orchestration, and content pipelines.
• Productionize AI Capabilities:Integrate with modern LLM providers (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic) and implement reliable orchestration, routing, error handling, guardrails, telemetry, and deep observability for performance and reliability.Strengthen CI/CD pipelines and DevOps automation to support fast, stable, cloud-native development workflows.

• Use AI as a force multiplier: Apply AI coding and testing tooling to your own work, and help build AI capabilities into the product itself. Translate business requirements into solutions that use AI where it is the right answer, and do not where it is not.
• Diagnose and fix: Read unfamiliar code, run root cause analysis, troubleshoot production behavior, and act on issues raised by automated code quality inspection.
• Raise the quality bar: Contribute to automated testing strategy and to continuous integration and delivery pipelines, treating test coverage as part of a feature rather than as a follow-up.
• Collaborate across functions: Participate actively in design discussions, agile ceremonies and cross-team work with Product, design and Labs teams
• Help others as you grow: Share what you learn, support colleagues on problems you have already solved, and contribute to a team culture where learning out loud is normal.

Required Qualifications

• Technical Experience; 1-3+ years of professional software development experience.
• Backend & Cloud Skills: Working knowledge of Python, and experience in AWS, Azure or GCP Cloud services. Solid understanding of RESTful API design, distributed systems and microservices architecture. Experience working with SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Technical Judgment:Excellent debugging skills and a proven ability to deliver production-ready,highly reliablesystems.
• Collaboration & Communication:Comfortable operating in fast-paced, iterative environments, with strong cross-functional communication skills.
• Evidence that you learn fast. Be ready to point to something specific you taught yourself and then shipped, and to explain how you went about it.

Preferred Qualifications:

• BA or BS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
• Experience with performance optimization for backend systems, including monitoring, profiling, and tuning for scale
• Hands-on experience building AI-powered product features, ideally agentic AI workflows including multi-step reasoning. Using tool/API orchestrations, LLM APIs, RAG pipelines, Claude Agent SDK / AgentCore at runtime
• Experience with Agentic UI - SSE/AG-UI streaming semantics, TypeScript/React
• Experience with Datadog (logs/RUM/traces), CloudWatch Log Insights, and Braintrust
• Familiarity with AI/ML infrastructure including vector databases, model serving, and cost/latency optimization for LLM-powered features

• Experience testing, automation, and operational robustness

• Prior experience working on products for legal, compliance, or other regulated professional domains

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.In the United States, Thomson Reuters offers a comprehensive benefits package to our employees. Our benefit package includes market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs, as well as a competitive 401k plan with company match. In addition, Thomson Reuters offers market leading work life benefits with competitive vacation, sick and safe paid time off, paid holidays (including two company mental health days off), parental leave, sabbatical leave. These benefits meet or exceeds the requirements of paid time off in accordance with any applicable state or municipal laws. Finally, Thomson Reuters offers the following additional benefits: optional hospital, accident and sickness insurance paid 100% by the employee; optional life and AD&D insurance paid 100% by the employee; Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts; fitness reimbursement; access to Employee Assistance Program; Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit paid 100% by employee; access to 529 Plan; commuter benefits; Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance; Tuition Reimbursement; and access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan.Thomson Reuters complies with local laws that require upfront disclosure of the expected pay range for a position. The base compensation range varies across locations.For any eligible US locations, unless otherwise noted, the base compensation range for this role is $82,000 USD - $152,200 USD.For Ontario, Canada, the base compensation range for this role is $87,400 CAD - $137,400 CAD.Base pay is positioned within the range based on several factors including an individual’s knowledge, skills and experience with consideration given to internal equity. Base pay is one part of a comprehensive Total Reward program which also includes flexible and supportive benefits and other wellbeing programs.This role may also be eligible for an Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance.

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. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness, and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer providing a drug‑free workplace.

Thomson Reuters makes reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities, including veterans with disabilities, and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law. If you reside in the United States and require an accommodation in the recruiting process, you may contact our Human Resources Department [e-mail]. Disability accommodations in the recruiting process may include things like a sign language interpreter, making interview rooms accessible, providing assistive technology, or other relevant accommodations. Please note this email is not intended for general recruitment questions and we will promptly respond to inquiries regarding accommodations. More information on requesting an accommodation here.

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