Are you a Backend Software Engineer looking to take the next step in your career? Thomson Reuters has an exciting opportunity to join a small team that owns a service responsible for processing millions of legal documents every month using AI/ML (including using LLMs). In this position, you will help lead all phases of application development, including ideation and deployment of new features as well as maintenance, ownership, and support of existing features.

About the Role:

In this opportunity as Lead Backend Software Engineer, you will:

• Ideate, design, implement, deploy, maintain, and support a set of related backend applications responsible for processing millions of legal documents.
• Play a key role in the complete software development lifecycle, including analysis, design, implementation, CI/CD, DevOps deployment, maintenance, and support responsibilities.
• Lead initiatives for improving processes to achieve better outcomes across the team.
• Understand the products and customers' needs, collaborating with product managers, scientists, subject matter experts, and other stakeholders to deliver great software products.
• Continually adapt to changes in technology, markets, and processes.
• Lead and collaborate with others to get things done with minimal supervision.
• Lend support to client applications and users of the backend applications you work on.

About You:

You are a fit for the role of Lead Backend Software Engineer if your background includes:

Required Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, related field, or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of software development experience.
• Hands on experience designing and implementing distributed systems using cloud services.
• Hands on experience designing and deploying applications to Azure
• Hands on experience with Python, Rust, and SQL/Relational Databases.
• Prior experience leading other engineers (can be formal or informal engineering leadership).
• Solid understanding of the software development lifecycle, unit testing, quality control practices, incident management.
• Good written and oral communication skills, including the ability to share knowledge across the team, provide status updates to leadership, mentor other engineers, and influence better thinking and practices across the team long term.
• Good creative problem-solving capabilities.
• Able to work independently or as part of a team (including the ability to organize others) to complete varied objectives.
• Preferred Skills and Experience:
• Prior exposure to AI/ML/NLP.
• Experience with other languages and technologies (C#/.NET, JavaScript; AWS, GCP; etc.)
• Familiarity with the legal industry is also helpful but not essential.

What's in it For You?:

You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through:

• Hybrid Work Model: We have adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected
• Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; work from another location for up to a total of 8 weeks (about 2 months) in a year, 4 of those weeks can be out of the country and the remaining in the country, Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
• Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.
• Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters cafe networking.
• Social Impact: Ten employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact.
• Purpose Driven Work: We have a superpower that we have never talked about with as much pride as we should - we are one of the only companies on the planet 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.

#LI-JF1