Staff Software Engineer

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

Staff Software Engineer

The global capital markets are among the largest markets in the world valued at $50T+ and growing. Transactions in these markets are complex. Critical, nuanced legal terms are woven into lengthy documents. These documents must be digested and analyzed by many different parties over the course of a single transaction and multiple decisions are made based on the terms laid out and quantitative and qualitative attributes within. This fundamental need plus a booming market drives enormous demand for precise extraction and benchmarking of legal terms.

As a Staff Software Engineer, Full Stack at Noetica, you'll help build robust backend systems and APIs that power our search-centric web experience that’s core to the workflow of our end users. This role is backend-leaning — you'll spend most of your time on server-side architecture, data processing, and API design, while also contributing to frontend features as needed. You will collaborate with a talented team of AI/ML PhDs, legal SMEs, and market strategists to design, build, and maintain scalable backend services. The backend service you will contribute to is the critical piece between our data product and our end users. Its system architecture decisions will influence the technical direction of our platform and decide our velocity of making impacts. Your contributions will directly impact the performance and reliability of Noetica's core infrastructure.

About the Role

• 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.

About You

You're a fit for the role of Staff Engineer, AI if your background includes:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
• 7-10 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.

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What’s in it For You?

• Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.
• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.
• Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.
• Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
• Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.
• Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.
• Making a Real-World Impact:We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

Here, you will collaborate with smart, ambitious people who thrive on solving complex problems, delivering market‑leading solutions, and innovating with curiosity and care.

More information about Thomson Reuters can be found on thomsonreuters.com

About Thomson Reuters

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Equal Opportunity & Accessibility

To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law.

Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer providing a drug‑free workplace.

Thomson Reuters makes reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities, including veterans with disabilities, and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.

Disability accommodations in the recruiting process may include things like a sign language interpreter, making interview rooms accessible, providing assistive technology, or other relevant accommodations. More information on requesting an accommodation here.

Salary and Compensation

The base compensation range varies across locations. Eligible office location(s) for this role include one or more of the following: New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and/or Irvine, CA; McLean, VA; Washington, DC. The base compensation range for the role in any of those locations is $183,100 USD - $340,000 USD. For any eligible US locations, unless otherwise noted, the base compensation range for this role is $158,900 USD - $295,100 USD. Base pay is positioned within the range based on several factors including an individual’s knowledge, skills and experience with consideration given to internal equity. Base pay is one part of a comprehensive Total Reward program which also includes flexible and supportive benefits and other wellbeing programs. This role may also be eligible for an Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance.