Lead, Content Tools Platform Engineering

Thomson Reuters group; Eagan (MN); Hybrid; USD 118,400 - 219,800; Full time

Job summary

Thomson Reuters seeks a Manager of Software Engineering to lead the Content Tools team, building API-first tools used by multiple teams. You will own design, implementation, testing, deployment, and operations, while managing a distributed set of engineers across the organization.

You will drive governance, tooling standards, and on-call reliability, partnering with TR Labs, CoCounsel Engineering, and product teams to ensure high-quality content tool infrastructure and developer experience.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 6+ years of software engineering experience with at least 2 years in leadership role.
• Experience designing and operating API-first systems consumed by multiple teams.
• Proficiency in Python, API design, testing strategy, and CI/CD practices.
• Experience building and governing shared platform infrastructure in a distributed model.
• Familiarity with information retrieval concepts and retrieval patterns.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end engineering roadmap for Content Tools, including CLI/SDK exposure and CI/CD pipelines.
• Enforce API-first contracts with versioned CLI, schema, and ownership metadata.
• Establish governance, templates, and contribution standards for distributed teams.
• Lead development of IR evaluation framework and production health monitoring.
• Own on-call rotations, SLO definitions, incident response for production tools.
• Collaborate with Labs, Product, and CoCounsel Engineering to align tool interfaces with agent workflows.

Skills

Python

API-first systems

CI/CD

Information retrieval

On-call ownership

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Elasticsearch

OpenSearch

Vespa

Job description

Thomson Reuters seeks a Manager of Software Engineering to lead the Content Tools team, building API-first tools used by multiple teams. You will own design, implementation, testing, deployment, and operations, while managing a distributed set of engineers across the organization.

You will drive governance, tooling standards, and on-call reliability, partnering with TR Labs, CoCounsel Engineering, and product teams to ensure high-quality content tool infrastructure and developer experience.