Staff Backend Engineer - API, Data Pipelines (Hybrid)

Thomson Reuters; Ann Arbor (MI); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Thomson Reuters is seeking a Staff Software Engineer in Ann Arbor to design and build scalable backend services and APIs for our document analysis platform. You will craft high‑quality server‑side code, data pipelines, and robust API contracts while collaborating on system architecture and third‑party integrations.

With 7–10 years of full‑stack experience, you will contribute to frontend components as needed, optimize performance for data‑intensive workloads, and help automate CI/CD and

Qualifications

• 7–10 years of professional full‑stack development experience with backend focus.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• Proficiency in 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 (Docker, Kubernetes) and hyperscalers (AWS, GCP).
• Proficiency in TypeScript and React for frontend work.
• Foundation in distributed systems and event‑driven architectures.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Self‑starting problem‑solving with action bias.

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 API contracts and contribute to service architecture decisions.
• Design compositional API primitives for rapid productionization of insights.
• Build and maintain integrations with third‑party services and internal ML systems.
• Contribute to frontend features and components as needed for end‑to‑end capabilities.
• Work on performance optimization for data‑intensive backend operations.
• Own engineering excellence and collaborate on code practices and scalability.
• Improve developer experience by automating CI/CD and production operations.

Skills

Backend development

API design

RESTful APIs

Distributed systems

Problem solving

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

TypeScript

React

Job description

Thomson Reuters is seeking a Staff Software Engineer in Ann Arbor to design and build scalable backend services and APIs for our document analysis platform. You will craft high‑quality server‑side code, data pipelines, and robust API contracts while collaborating on system architecture and third‑party integrations.

With 7–10 years of full‑stack experience, you will contribute to frontend components as needed, optimize performance for data‑intensive workloads, and help automate CI/CD and