Description
Thomson Reuters is building the AI platform that will power the next decade of tax, accounting, and audit products. As a Lead Software Engineer (Staff Engineer), you will own core backend and AI orchestration systems that turn frontier models into reliable, production-grade workflows at scale.
You will be responsible for the backend and orchestration layer powering AI agents, conversations, workspaces, and knowledge base across CoCounsel for Audit.
Key responsibilities:
- Shape the team's AI platform and patterns
- Shape the platform integration strategy across new and existing Thomson Reuters audit systems
- Work at real production scale
- Join a tight group of senior engineers and researchers shipping quickly
- Great fit for people who enjoy and thrive at setting technical direction, mentoring senior engineers, and spending most of their time in the code and architecture of AI systems.
Technical leadership and cross-functional influence:
- Lead multi-quarter initiatives that cut across AI, product, and infra
- Mentor senior and mid-level engineers
- Be a go-to expert in new model capabilities
- Help shape the team’s roadmap, technical strategy, and engineering culture
Design and own AI-first backend systems:
- Provide technical POV on architecting and implementing backend services
- Build and evolve AI orchestration
Scale, reliability, and performance:
- Design for high-throughput, low-latency AI workloads
- Work with large-scale data
- Establish and refine SLOs, observability, and incident response
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, a related field, or equivalent experience
- 5-7+ years of experience in full-stack development
- Deep Python expertise and experience with production systems
- Strong background in distributed systems
- Proven track record leading large, complex projects
- Excellent communication skills
- Demonstrated interest in AI systems and new engineering paradigms
Benefits:
- Hybrid work model
- Flexibility and work-life balance
- Career development and growth
- Industry-competitive benefits
- Culture
- Social impact