Senior AI Backend Engineer - Agentic Systems

Reuters; Eagan (MN); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 204,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid Work Model

Career Growth

Mental Health Days

Tuition Reimbursement

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Thomson Reuters is seeking a Senior Software Engineer – AI to join the CoCounsel International team and advance AI-powered backends for real-time interactions. You will design and build backend services using Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, and AWS to support multi-step reasoning and large-scale data flows.

You will collaborate across Labs, product, and design teams to productionize AI capabilities for international products, while mentoring engineers to deliver reliable, scalable systems in a

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience building and shipping production backend systems, APIs, and microservices.
• Strong proficiency in Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, and AWS cloud services, with a deep understanding of distributed systems, architecture, and data modeling.
• Proven experience designing, building, and deploying production-grade agentic AI workflows — including multi-step reasoning, tool/API orchestration, and LLM-as-judge or eval-driven quality gates.
• Excellent debugging skills and a proven ability to deliver production-ready, highly reliable systems.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills in fast-paced, cross-functional environments.

Responsibilities

• Build AI-powered backend systems and services to support real-time AI interactions and scalable data flows.
• Define service boundaries and scalable designs that form the architecture of the AI platform.
• Integrate backend systems with LLM providers and implement orchestration, routing, guardrails, telemetry, and observability.
• Collaborate with Labs teams, product managers, and designers to turn AI concepts into production-ready features.
• Mentor engineers through pairing, code reviews, and technical guidance.

Skills

Python

FastAPI

PostgreSQL

AWS

Distributed systems

LLM orchestration

Debugging

Communication

Education

B.S. in Computer Science

Tools

OpenAI API

Anthropic API

Vector DB

Git

Job description

Thomson Reuters is seeking a Senior Software Engineer – AI to join the CoCounsel International team and advance AI-powered backends for real-time interactions. You will design and build backend services using Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, and AWS to support multi-step reasoning and large-scale data flows.

You will collaborate across Labs, product, and design teams to productionize AI capabilities for international products, while mentoring engineers to deliver reliable, scalable systems in a