Staff Software Engineer II

Thomson Reuters•Frisco, TX

1d•$127,400 - $236,600•Hybrid

About The Position

As a Staff Software Engineer (Full Stack) on the Forward Engineering team, you will design and build next-generation web applications that power Thomson Reuters’ transformation toward AI-driven, agent-centric internal workflows. This role prioritizes strong full-stack engineering skills, experience rapidly developing with AI coding tools, open-mindedness to explore new ways of working, product intuition, and the ability to work closely with AI Engineers and internal users to bring modern agent-oriented frontends and backends to life. As a Staff Software Engineer (Full Stack), you will partner with cross-functional teammates to translate business problems into intuitive, efficient applications that seamlessly integrate with evolving AI systems. You’ll play a key role in shaping how TR builds software in an era where applications must intuitively and effectively connect human and machine users - interacting together through goal-driven, adaptive interfaces.

Requirements

8+ years of experience as a full-stack software engineer, including ownership of production web applications and APIs.
Deep experience with at least one modern frontend and backend stack (frameworks, languages, and cloud infrastructure are flexible).
Strong ability to rapidly learn new technologies and adapt engineering practices to support evolving AI-driven application patterns.
Familiarity with concepts related to AI-powered systems (e.g., APIs, data flows, model integration), with a willingness to partner closely with AI Engineers.
Experience designing systems in cloud-native environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and with container/orchestration tools such as Docker or Kubernetes.
Demonstrated leadership in driving technical initiatives, influencing architecture, and guiding multi-disciplinary teams.
Excellent communication and problem-solving skills; ability to operate in fast-paced, exploratory environments.

Nice To Haves

Experience building prototypes that explore new interaction paradigms between users and AI.
Knowledge of vector databases, embeddings, semantic search, or agent-tooling patterns (not required but beneficial).
Exposure to AI governance or understanding of how applications interact with risk-managed AI workflows.

Responsibilities

Build and Architect Agent‑First Applications Design and develop full‑stack applications grounded in agent‑experience principles, enabling seamless human–AI collaboration through adaptive UIs, flexible task flows, and data‑rich backend services.
Architect Scalable Backend & API Systems Create modular, cloud‑native APIs and backend systems that integrate cleanly with AI‑driven orchestration patterns, supporting efficient agent context management, state handling, and structured tool invocation.
Collaborate on Human–AI Interaction Surfaces Partner closely with AI Engineers to design intuitive application surfaces—across UI, API, and service layers—that reliably expose agent capabilities to end users and developers.
Apply Strong Engineering Fundamentals Across the Stack Leverage expertise in modern frontend and backend ecosystems (e.g., React/Next.js, Vue/Nuxt, Angular, Node.js, Python/FastAPI, Java/Spring, .NET) while ensuring high standards in API design, state management, testing, CI/CD, observability, and performance.
Rapidly Prototype and Iterate With Stakeholders Build fast, exploratory prototypes that test new human–AI interaction models, accelerating learning and informing product direction in close collaboration with business partners.
Provide Senior Full‑Stack Technical Leadership Lead architectural decision‑making, translate business requirements into actionable technical designs, mentor engineers, and elevate engineering best practices across performance, experimentation, and modularity.
Drive Cross‑Functional Collaboration and Delivery Work with business units, product managers, AI Engineers, and domain experts to co‑create solutions, shape project priorities and execution plans, and document architectures for knowledge sharing across the organization.

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.

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