Senior Software Engineer AI (Materia AI)
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Senior Software Engineer AI (Materia AI)
Were building the next generation of AIpowered systems for tax and accounting professionals and we need a Senior Software Engineer who can architect highperformance backend platforms that make realworld AI possible. If you thrive in fastmoving environments love solving complex distributedsystems challenges and want to see your work directly power intelligent productionscale features this role is for you.
About the Role
As a Senior Software Engineer AI you will design build and optimize backend services that power AInative experiences across our Materiainspired product ecosystem. You will play a key role in shaping the architecture performance and reliability of the systems that orchestrate LLM interactions serve hightraffic APIs and process largescale content.
Own Backend Architecture for AINative Products
- Design and implement backend services using Python FastAPI and PostgreSQL.
- Build distributed systems that support realtime AI interactions and highvolume data flows.
- Define architectural patterns service boundaries and system interfaces for our AI platform.
Engineer HighPerformance Services
- Build APIs and microservices supporting AI agents orchestration engines and content pipelines.
- Optimize performance across concurrency caching throughput and largescale document processing.
- Ensure backend systems scale seamlessly under demanding compute and data workloads.
Integrate AI Components Into Production Systems
- Connect backend services to LLM providers such as OpenAI and Anthropic.
- Implement orchestration logic safe execution flows request routing and latencytuned realtime AI capabilities.
- Productionize AI components with robust error handling guardrails and observability.
Raise the Engineering Bar
- 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.
Collaborate Across Product & AI Teams
- 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.
About You
Required Qualifications
- 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 crossfunctional collaboration abilities.
- Comfortable in fastpaced iterative environments with evolving requirements.
- Curiosity about AI technologies and enthusiasm for integrating them into real systems.
Preferred Skills
- Experience with AIdriven 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.
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Whats in it For You
Hybrid Work Model: Weve 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 tomorrows 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.
About Us
Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal tax accounting compliance government and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data intelligence and solutions needed to make informed decisions and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice truth and transparency. Reuters part of Thomson Reuters is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.
We are powered by the talents of 26000 employees across more than 70 countries where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments. At a time when objectivity accuracy fairness and transparency are under attack we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.
As a global business we rely on the unique backgrounds perspectives and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business goals. To ensure we can do that we seek talented qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race color sex/gender including pregnancy gender identity and expression national origin religion sexual orientation disability age marital status citizen status veteran status or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer providing a drug-free workplace.
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Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- Spring
- .NET
- C/C++
- Go
- React
- OOP
- C#
- AWS
- Data Structures
- Software Development
- Java
- Distributed Systems
About Company
Boost productivity, increase collaboration, and deliver results with a secure, cloud-based legal business management solution that automates time-consuming tasks and scales to the needs of your law firm or legal department.
