Senior Software Engineer, Next-Gen Search Platform

Thomson Reuters Foundation; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 102,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid Work Model

Flexible work arrangements

Total Reward program & benefits

Volunteer days & social impact

Job summary

Thomson Reuters Foundation seeks a Senior Software Engineer to help build the next-generation search platform. You will own backend services, ingestion pipelines, and APIs used by internal products and AI agents.

This role emphasizes design authority, on-call ownership, mentoring, and collaboration with TR Labs to explore embedding models and new search capabilities. A hybrid work model with strong career development awaits.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience building and operating production backend or data infrastructure systems.
• Strong programming skills in Python, Java, or Go.
• Solid distributed systems fundamentals and cloud experience (AWS).
• Experience with infrastructure as code and AI-assisted development tools.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, deploy, and operate production backend services for the search platform.
• Develop ingestion pipelines, indexing, and query APIs to support AI agents.
• Own on-call incidents, monitoring, and post-mortems.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to architectural decisions.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Python

Java

Go

AWS

OpenSearch

Vespa

Kafka

Job description

Thomson Reuters Foundation seeks a Senior Software Engineer to help build the next-generation search platform. You will own backend services, ingestion pipelines, and APIs used by internal products and AI agents.

This role emphasizes design authority, on-call ownership, mentoring, and collaboration with TR Labs to explore embedding models and new search capabilities. A hybrid work model with strong career development awaits.