Staff Backend Engineer - AI/Data Platforms (Hybrid)

Thomson Reuters Foundation; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 159,000 - 295,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Total rewards program

Job summary

Thomson Reuters Foundation is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to design and build scalable backend services and APIs powering our document analysis platform. You will develop high-performance server-side code and data processing pipelines, define API contracts, and guide service architecture decisions.

Collaboration with ML teams will shape the product roadmap and production readiness. You will own backend performance optimizations, CI/CD automation, and cross-functional delivery, while

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in CS/IT or related field.

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 productionization 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 for maintainability and scalability.
• Improve/automate CI/CD and other day-to-day production operations.

Skills

Node.js

Python

Go

TypeScript

React

RESTful APIs

SQL/NoSQL

Distributed systems

Microservices

CI/CD

Monorepo

Data processing

Cloud (AWS/GCP)

Docker

Kubernetes

Event-driven design

Education

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

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Job description

Thomson Reuters Foundation is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to design and build scalable backend services and APIs powering our document analysis platform. You will develop high-performance server-side code and data processing pipelines, define API contracts, and guide service architecture decisions.

Collaboration with ML teams will shape the product roadmap and production readiness. You will own backend performance optimizations, CI/CD automation, and cross-functional delivery, while