Senior Backend Engineer - APIs & Data Pipelines

Thomson Reuters; Eagan (MN); Hybrid; USD 158,900 - 295,100; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Work-life balance

Career development

Competitive benefits

Job summary

Thomson Reuters in Minnesota seeks a Principal Software Engineer to design and build scalable backend services and APIs powering our document analysis platform. You will write high‑performance server‑side code, develop data pipelines, and shape API contracts while collaborating across teams.

The role requires 10–12 years of full‑stack experience, strong backend skills in Node.js/Python/Go, API design, and experience with SQL/NoSQL databases, Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
• 10-12 years of professional full‑stack development experience with a strong focus on backend systems
• Proficiency in backend technologies (Node.js, Python, or Go) and API design
• Strong understanding of RESTful APIs, database design, and data modelling
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases
• Familiarity with containerisation and orchestration platforms (Docker, Kubernetes) and hyperscalers (AWS, GCP, etc.)
• Proficiency in TypeScript and React for frontend work
• Foundation in distributed systems, event‑driven architectures, and web fundamentals
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Self‑starting problem‑solving approach biased towards action and scope minimisation

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable backend services and APIs that power our document analysis platform
• Write maintainable, high-performance server‑side code and data processing pipelines
• Define clear, efficient API contracts and contribute to service architecture decisions
• Design and craft compositional API primitives to expedite the productionisation of our ever growing list of document insights
• Build and maintain integrations with third‑party services and internal ML systems
• Contribute to frontend features and components as needed to deliver features end to end
• Work on performance optimisation for data‑intensive backend operations
• Take ownership in engineering excellence and collaborate on code practices and design patterns to ensure long‑term maintainability and scalability
• Take ownership in developer experience by improving/automating CI/CD and other day‑to‑day production operations

Skills

Backend tech

API design

REST APIs

SQL/NoSQL

Docker/Kubernetes

TypeScript & React

Distributed systems

Communication

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Thomson Reuters in Minnesota seeks a Principal Software Engineer to design and build scalable backend services and APIs powering our document analysis platform. You will write high‑performance server‑side code, develop data pipelines, and shape API contracts while collaborating across teams.

The role requires 10–12 years of full‑stack experience, strong backend skills in Node.js/Python/Go, API design, and experience with SQL/NoSQL databases, Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms.