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About the Role

As a Staff Software Engineer II at KeyCite, you will lead complex, business-critical engineering initiatives from architecture through production. You will modernize established platforms while maintaining the reliability that customers depend on, and you will set technical direction across teams.

Responsibilities

Lead complex engineering initiatives, designing and delivering end-to-end solutions for large-scale, business-critical systems.
Modernize core KeyCite platforms and services using modern architectural patterns without disrupting critical customer-facing products.
Design distributed services, processing systems and APIs that meet demanding standards for performance, availability, scalability and maintainability.
Lead architecture and design decisions across complex systems, balancing near-term delivery with long-term sustainability.
Build scalable data-processing capabilities for large volumes of structured and unstructured legal content and metadata.
Identify architectural constraints and systematically simplify, modernize or replace components, while enabling teams to keep delivering business value.
Assess emerging technologies and architectural approaches based on measurable improvements to scalability, reliability, developer productivity and customer outcomes.
Champion modern practices across design, development, testing, observability, security, deployment and operational ownership.
Establish measurable standards for quality, reliability, security and maintainability.
Work across engineering teams and with Product and Architecture to solve problems that span organizational and system boundaries.
Partner with engineering and product leadership on long-term technical strategy.
Establish patterns and standards that are adopted beyond your immediate team.
Act as the technical authority for complex architecture and engineering decisions.
Mentor engineers and develop senior engineering talent.
Lead technical discussions and design reviews, and raise the engineering bar across the organization.
Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to senior technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Translate business and product requirements into durable technical architectures.
Make pragmatic trade-offs between feature delivery, modernization and technical debt.
Identify opportunities to reuse platform capabilities rather than building bespoke solutions.
Connect technical investment to measurable product and business outcomes.
Recognize the importance of reliability and accuracy in systems that support professional research.

Requirements

6+ years of experience in designing and delivering complex production software systems.
Deep expertise in backend and distributed systems engineering.
Strong experience with cloud-native architectures, preferably on AWS.
Experience designing APIs, services and event-driven architectures.
Experience with large-scale data processing and data pipelines.
Strong understanding of system reliability, scalability, performance and observability.
Experience modernizing complex legacy or long-lived production systems without disrupting existing customers.
Strong programming skills, ideally in Java and/or Python.
Experience with modern engineering practices, including automated testing, CI/CD, infrastructure automation and production monitoring.
Demonstrated ability to influence architecture and technical direction beyond an individual team.
Ability to independently navigate ambiguous, highly complex technical problems.
Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain architectural trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Experience mentoring senior engineers and raising technical standards across teams.
Experience with high-volume content, publishing, search or information-processing platforms.
Experience with search and information retrieval technologies.
Experience with large-scale metadata or knowledge systems.
Experience with graph or relationship-oriented data models.
Experience building platforms or services consumed by multiple products and engineering teams.
Experience operating highly available, business-critical systems.
Exposure to legal technology, professional information or other domains where accuracy, provenance and reliability are critical.
Familiarity with AI-enabled applications and the backend and data infrastructure that supports them.

Skills

Backend engineering
Distributed systems engineering
Cloud-native architectures
AWS
API design
Service design
Event-driven architectures
Large-scale data processing
Data pipelines
System reliability
Scalability
Performance optimization
Observability
Java
Python
Automated testing
CI/CD
Infrastructure automation
Production monitoring
Communication
Mentoring
Search technologies
Information retrieval
Metadata systems
Knowledge systems
Graph data models
Relationship-oriented data models
AI-enabled applications

Location

Ontario, Canada

Work Type

Hybrid
Work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year

Experience Level

Staff
Senior

Salary/Compensations

$148,800 CAD - $198,800 CAD

Benefits

Flexible vacation
Two company-wide Mental Health Days off
Access to the Headspace app
Retirement savings
Tuition reimbursement
Employee incentive programs
Resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing
Annual Bonus based on enterprise and individual performance

About the Company

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 26,000 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.
Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.
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.

Equal Opportunity

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.
We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.