Thomson Reuters · 9 hours ago
Senior Software Engineer - AI (Materia AI)
Frisco, TX
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior Level
$127K/yr - $235K/yr
4+ years expThomson Reuters is building the next generation of AI-powered systems for tax and accounting professionals, seeking a Senior Software Engineer who can architect high-performance backend platforms. The role involves designing, building, and optimizing backend services for AI-native experiences, ensuring reliability and performance in large-scale systems.
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Responsibilities
Design and implement backend services using Python, FastAPI, and PostgreSQL
Build distributed systems that support real-time AI interactions and high-volume data flows
Define architectural patterns, service boundaries, and system interfaces for our AI platform
Build APIs and microservices supporting AI agents, orchestration engines, and content pipelines
Optimize performance across concurrency, caching, throughput, and large-scale document processing
Ensure backend systems scale seamlessly under demanding compute and data workloads
Connect backend services to LLM providers such as OpenAI and Anthropic
Implement orchestration logic, safe execution flows, request routing, and latency-tuned real-time AI capabilities
Productionize AI components with robust error handling, guardrails, and observability
Lead architecture discussions, code reviews, and key technical decisions
Champion engineering best practices in testing, resiliency, observability, and maintainability
Support CI/CD pipelines, DevOps workflows, and cloud automation patterns
Work closely with ML engineers, product managers, and designers to translate requirements into scalable solutions
Turn conceptual AI features into reliable backend capabilities used by thousands of professionals
Qualification
Required
4+ years of backend engineering experience building scalable APIs and microservices
Strong proficiency in Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, and AWS-based cloud services
Solid understanding of distributed systems, architecture, and data modeling
Strong debugging skills and experience delivering production-grade systems
Excellent communication and cross‑functional collaboration abilities
Comfortable in fast‑paced, iterative environments with evolving requirements
Curiosity about AI technologies and enthusiasm for integrating them into real systems
Preferred
Experience with AI‑driven systems or agent architectures
Familiarity with embeddings, vector search, or RAG-style retrieval systems
Strong opinions on backend testing, automation, and operational quality
Experience with modern LLM APIs or orchestration frameworks
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.
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.
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.
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
Competitive 401k plan with company match
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
Access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Company
Thomson Reuters
Thomson Reuters delivers critical information from the financial, legal, accounting, intellectual property, science, and media markets.
10001+ employees
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Funding
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Leadership Team
Steve Hasker
President and CEO
Michael Eastwood
Chief Financial Officer
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