Staff Software Engineer, Next-Gen Search Platform (Hybrid)

Thomson Reuters; Toronto; On-site; CAD 141,000 - 191,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid Work Model

Mental Health Days off

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Thomson Reuters in Toronto, Ontario, is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Search Retrieval Platform. You will design scalable retrieval APIs, build pluggable components for chunking, embedding, ranking, and ensure secure, multi-tenant access across products.

You will collaborate with product, research engineering, and applied science teams, own SLOs and observability, and mentor engineers while delivering production-grade search capabilities at scale.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with progression to staff-level scope
• Experience building search, retrieval, or data-intensive platforms at scale
• Track record translating customer needs into platform capabilities
• Experience designing APIs and services consumed by multiple teams
• Operational rigor: SLOs, observability, on-call ownership

Responsibilities

• Turn customer and product needs into platform capabilities, working with product teams and client teams
• Design the retrieval APIs and search services with consistent contracts and tunable filtering
• Make retrieval customizable by design with pluggable components for chunking, enrichment, embedding, ranking
• Own content ingestion and indexing pipelines to ensure broad customization
• Partner with Research Engineering to take new retrieval techniques to production
• Prioritize roadmaps with product and client teams and drive adoption feedback
• Own evaluation, security posture, and telemetry for the retrieval platform
• Set architectural direction and lead cross-team initiatives
• Mentor engineers and promote AI-assisted development

Skills

Software engineering

Distributed systems

API design

AI-assisted development

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Vespa

OpenSearch

Elasticsearch

Job description

Thomson Reuters in Toronto, Ontario, is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Search Retrieval Platform. You will design scalable retrieval APIs, build pluggable components for chunking, embedding, ranking, and ensure secure, multi-tenant access across products.

You will collaborate with product, research engineering, and applied science teams, own SLOs and observability, and mentor engineers while delivering production-grade search capabilities at scale.