Senior Full-Stack Engineer: Data‑Driven Backend & API

Thomson Reuters; New York (NY); On-site; USD 127,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Disability insurance

Life insurance

401k with company match

Paid time off and holidays

Job summary

Thomson Reuters Noetica is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack to design and build scalable backend services and APIs powering our document analysis platform. You will develop high‑performance server-side code, data processing pipelines, and efficient API contracts, while contributing to ML integrations and frontend features when needed.

You will work with AI/ML PhDs and market strategists to shape architectural decisions, advance CI/CD practices, and ensure long-term maintainability

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in computer science or related field.
• 4+ years of professional full-stack development experience with a strong backend focus.
• 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 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 with bias toward action.
• Experience with microservices, message queues, and CI/CD.
• Experience building data processing pipelines or large-scale data systems.
• Familiarity with OO design and functional programming.
• Interest in language and economics.
• Thrives in a high-leverage, fast-paced environment.
• Familiar with monorepo, jujutsu, Mise, pprof, etc.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable backend services and APIs powering 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 productionise 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 contribute to coding practices and design patterns.
• Improve/automate CI/CD and day-to-day production operations.

Skills

Backend systems

API design

Node.js

Python

Go

RESTful APIs

SQL

NoSQL

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

TypeScript

React

Distributed systems

Event-driven

CI/CD

Microservices

Single-tenant architectures

Data processing pipelines

Object-oriented design

Functional programming

Large-scale data systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Job description

Thomson Reuters Noetica is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack to design and build scalable backend services and APIs powering our document analysis platform. You will develop high‑performance server-side code, data processing pipelines, and efficient API contracts, while contributing to ML integrations and frontend features when needed.

You will work with AI/ML PhDs and market strategists to shape architectural decisions, advance CI/CD practices, and ensure long-term maintainability