Description
The global capital markets are among the largest markets in the world, valued at $50T+, and growing. Transactions in these markets are complex, with critical, nuanced legal terms 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.
As a Principal Software Engineer, Full Stack at Thomson Reuters, 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.
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 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
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
- 10-12 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.
Benefits
- Hybrid Work Model: flexible hybrid working environment
- Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: supportive workplace policies, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year
- Career Development and Growth: culture of continuous learning and skill development
- Industry Competitive Benefits: comprehensive benefit plans, including 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
- Social Impact: opportunities to make an impact in the community, including two paid volunteer days off annually
- Making a Real-World Impact: helping customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency