Staff Software Engineer II

Bengaluru - India

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: Yesterday

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

About the role:

As a Staff Software Engineer (Full Stack)you will be hands-on in designing building and deliveringinnovative AI-powered solutions drive technical strategy and embed within business units to reimagine processes and accelerate TRs AI-first transformation.

Build &DesignAI-Driven Systems

Define technical standards and best practices for rapid prototyping and lead solution discovery

Hands-on design and prototyping of complex enterprise-scale AI-driven systems

Personally build engagingfront-endsusing React TypeScript and Tailwind CSS

Directly develop robust back-ends with PythonFastAPIPydantic and cloud infrastructure including API design data modeling and AI service integration

Provide Senior Technical Leadership

Contribute to technical design decisions across the stack including architecture API design and system integration patterns

Lead technical architecture decisions and translate high-level business requirements into comprehensive scalable technical specifications

Mentor other engineers on the team fostering technical growth and career development

Serve as a senior thought leader driving technical discussions in executive forums andrepresentingForward Engineering at internal events

Lead Cross-Functional Collaboration

Serve as atechnicalleader for full-stack projects through prioritization decisions scoping out timelines guiding the work ofotherengineers and collaborating with cross-functional partners

Embed directly with prioritized business units to develop deep domainexpertiseand build stakeholder relationships

Partner with business leaders functional SMEs and product teams to co-create solutions and drive adoption

Document solutions and architectural decisions for knowledge transfer and capability building

About You

You are a fit for the position ifyou have:

Required Skills and Experience

Core Engineering Experience

Bachelors degree in computer science engineering or equivalent experience;Mastersdegree preferred

8 years of hands-on software engineering experience across the full stack (we welcome engineers who are stronger in front-end or back-end but havedemonstratedcapability in both)

Strong leadership experience driving technical initiatives as an individual contributor

Excellent strategic thinking problem-solving skills and ability tooperateeffectively in complex fast-paced environments

Outstanding communication and presentation skills with experience influencing senior stakeholders

Cloud & Infrastructure (Required)

Deep production-level experience with AWS or Azure - you should havedesigned deployed and operated systems on at least one of these platforms

Experience with cloud orchestration and infrastructure tools (Docker Kubernetes Terraform CloudFormation or similar)

Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps practices (GitHub Actions GitLab CI Azure DevOps or similar)

AI & Machine Learning (Required)

Proficiencyin Python and practical experience working with AI systems including:

Basic understanding and hands-on experience with large language models (LLMs)

Experience building or integrating AI agents or agentic workflows

Familiarity with LLM orchestration frameworks (LangChain LlamaIndex Semantic Kernel or similar)

Familiarity with AI/ML frameworks (PyTorch TensorFlow or similar)

Demonstratedexpertiseintegrating AI models into production systems using APIs data pipelines and cloud-nativearchitecture

Basic understanding of vector databases and RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) patterns

Data & APIs (Required)

Experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs and/orGraphQLendpoints

Hands-on experience with both SQL databases (PostgreSQL MySQL or similar) and NoSQL databases (MongoDB DynamoDBCosmosDB or similar)

Understanding of data modeling database design and optimization

Security & Best Practices

Understanding of authentication and authorization patterns (OAuth 2.0 OpenID Connect or similar)

Knowledge of security best practices including secrets management and secure API design

Bonus Points

Advanced AI/ML Experience

4 years of experienceleveragingadvanced AI/ML frameworks in production systems

Advanced knowledge of vector databases (PineconeWeaviate Chromapgvector) embeddings semantic search and information retrieval systems

Experience with prompt engineering and management tools (LangSmithPromptLayer or similar)

Experience with AI governance model risk management and regulatory compliance

Infrastructure & Scale

Experience with message queues and event-driven architectures (Kafka RabbitMQ AWS SQS/SNS Azure Service Bus or similar)

Experience with serverless architectures (AWS Lambda Azure Functions)

Observability & Quality

Production experience with APM and observability tools (Datadog New Relic Application Insights or similar)

Experience implementing comprehensive testing strategies (unit integration e2e) using modern testing frameworks

Knowledge of distributed tracing and logging systems (OpenTelemetry ELK Stack CloudWatch)

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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.

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