Thomson reuters

Actively Hiring

Senior Software Engineer

Eagan, United States

Full time

Role Overview

The CoCounsel Legal Integrations team within Thomson Reuters is seeking Senior Software Engineers to join the Content Tools team in building purpose-built APIs that give AI agents precise, governed access to TR's proprietary legal content across various international jurisdictions.

About Thomson reuters

Thomson Reuters is a leading provider of business information services, trusted answers, and legal content for professionals worldwide.

Key Responsibilities

Design, develop, and own Content Tools end-to-end including APIs and retrieval components
Build API-first with versioned contracts, schemas, and ownership metadata
Design retrieval components for agentic use respecting explicit latency budgets
Build and tune the retrieval and search behind the content tools in collaboration with research scientists
Practice verified spec-driven development
Participate in the on-call rotation and take end-to-end ownership of incidents
Instrument components with structured logging, metrics, and distributed tracing
Define and monitor SLOs for the tools you own

Requirements & Eligibility

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
5+ years of software engineering experience designing, developing, and testing production backend, API, or data-infrastructure systems
Mastery of Python and strong fundamentals, including API design and a rigorous testing discipline
Solid distributed-systems knowledge
Proficiency with AWS cloud services, Datadog and CI/CD practices
Demonstrated operational ownership and on-call participation

Required Skills & Tech

PythonFastAPIPydanticAWSVespaGitHub ActionsDatadogClaude Agent SDKMCP