Senior Software Engineer II

Thomson Reuters • Eagan, MN

2d • Remote

About The Position

Thomson Reuters is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to help build the document-processing platform powering AI products across the company. The service handles millions of documents per month using AI/ML and LLMs, powers flagship applications like CoCounsel, and serves both internal teams and customer-facing products. This is cutting-edge, high-impact work, and usage is climbing fast. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will contribute to technical decision-making, influencing product direction, cloud infrastructure, and application architecture. You will design and ship client-facing REST APIs, defining contracts up front, with developer experience and consumer ergonomics treated as first-class concerns. You will build scalable cloud services that process millions of documents per month, using AI/ML technologies including LLMs. You will collaborate cross-functionally with engineers, product managers, scientists, and legal experts. You will also mentor more junior engineers and contribute to the team's engineering culture.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field; or equivalent practical experience.
• 4+ years of software development experience, with a strong focus on cloud-native application hosting and maintenance (preferably on Azure; AWS or GCP also valuable).
• Experience designing and building clean, well-documented client-facing REST APIs using an API-first approach — defining contracts (e.g., OpenAPI / Swagger) before implementation, with developer experience and consumer ergonomics treated as first-class concerns.
• Strong proficiency in C# / .NET and SQL, with working knowledge of Angular.
• Hands-on experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions), and version control (Git).
• Comprehensive understanding of the entire software development lifecycle, including agile methodologies, testing, monitoring, and incident management.
• Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to: Build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders Contribute positively to long-term team dynamics and health
• Demonstrated ability to solve complex technical problems creatively and effectively.
• Adaptability and eagerness to learn new technologies and methodologies in a rapidly evolving field.
• Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools (e.g. Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot).

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with other strongly typed languages (e.g. C++, Java, Go — Rust experience is particularly welcome) is a plus, as is experience with AWS or GCP.
• Experience with AI/ML technologies — especially MLOps (model hosting and deployment), large-volume document processing, NLP, and/or LLM-based applications (RAG, agentic workflows, prompt engineering) — is highly desirable.
• Familiarity with the legal industry is a plus; experience in legal tech is particularly welcome.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to technical decision-making, influencing product direction, cloud infrastructure, and application architecture.
• Design and ship client-facing REST APIs — defining contracts up front, with developer experience and consumer ergonomics treated as first-class concerns.
• Build scalable cloud services that process millions of documents per month, using AI/ML technologies including LLMs.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with engineers, product managers, scientists, and legal experts.
• Mentor more junior engineers and contribute to the team's engineering culture.
• Provide technical leadership within a development team, including but not limited to: mentoring junior developers, reviewing code, training on new technologies / concepts, and providing input on technical decisions.
• Willingness to participate in the team's on-call rotation.

Benefits

• 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. 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.
• In the United States, Thomson Reuters offers a comprehensive benefits package to our employees. Our benefit package includes market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs, as well as a competitive 401k plan with company match.
• In addition, Thomson Reuters offers 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior