Principal Engineer

Thomson Reuters•United States of America, NY

5d•Hybrid

About The Position

Principal 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 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 In this opportunity as Principal Engineer, you will:

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
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

Nice To Haves

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.

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.

Benefits

Hybrid Work Model: We’ve 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.
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.
market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs, as well as a competitive 401k plan with company match
market leading work life benefits with competitive vacation, sick and safe paid time off, paid holidays (including two company mental health days off), parental leave, sabbatical leave
optional hospital, accident and sickness insurance paid 100% by the employee; optional life and AD&D insurance paid 100% by the employee; Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts; fitness reimbursement; access to Employee Assistance Program; Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit paid 100% by employee; access to 529 Plan; commuter benefits; Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance; Tuition Reimbursement; and access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan