Senior Backend Engineer – Hybrid, Scalable APIs & Data

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

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid Work Model

Flexible vacation

Mental Health Days off

Tuition reimbursement

Employee incentive programs

401k with company match

Volunteer days off

Job summary

Thomson Reuters - Noetica in the United States is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack to build scalable backend services and APIs powering our document analysis platform.

You will focus on server-side architecture, data processing, and API design, while contributing to frontend features as needed, collaborating with AI/ML PhDs and domain experts to deliver reliable, high‑performance systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
• 4+ 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 modeling
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases
• Familiarity with containerization 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 minimization
• Experience with microservices architecture and message queues
• Understanding of CI/CD fundamentals and experience working in single-tenant architectures
• Experience building data processing pipelines or working with large‑scale data systems
• Familiarity with object‑oriented design and functional programming principles
• Experience optimizing backend performance for data‑intensive applications
• Interest in language and economics
• Thrive in a high‑leverage, fast‑paced environment
• Familiar with technologies like monorepo, jujutsu, mise, pprof, etc.

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 productionization 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 optimization 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

Node.js

Python

Go

TypeScript

React

RESTful APIs

SQL

NoSQL

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Distributed systems

CI/CD

Monorepo

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Job description

Thomson Reuters - Noetica in the United States is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack to build scalable backend services and APIs powering our document analysis platform.

You will focus on server-side architecture, data processing, and API design, while contributing to frontend features as needed, collaborating with AI/ML PhDs and domain experts to deliver reliable, high‑performance systems.