Backend Engineer

Posted:
8/19/2024, 5:00:00 PM

Location(s):
Ciudad de México, Ciudad de México, Mexico ⋅ Ciudad de México, Mexico

Experience Level(s):
Mid Level ⋅ Senior

Field(s):
Software Engineering

Workplace Type:
Hybrid

The CoCounsel Engineering team of  Thomson Reuters is tackling the $6 billion U.S. legal research market and advancing the cause of justice by empowering all attorneys to provide high-quality, efficient, and affordable representation to their clients. Our award winning research platform helps millions of users access and understand the law every month, and our AI-powered search tools are at the cutting edge of search technology. 

About the Role

The CoCounsel engineering team at Thomson Reuters is seeking a Backend Engineer to help grow CoCounsel, our state of the art AI legal assistant. As a Backend Engineer, you'll expand the capabilities of our chat service, a user-facing LLM-powered hub that understands and routes to all of CoCounsel's skills. You'll collaborate with those skills' teams to identify implementation patterns and developer pain points, and address them with improvements to our skill framework. Our ideal candidate is curious and sympathetic with a keen eye for simplicity.

  • Develop CoCounsel's backend services to support customer facing applications
  • Identify skill implementation patterns and developer pain points
  • Develop reusable solutions for those patterns and alleviate those pain points
  • Connect CoCounsel's applications/AI Assistant service to skills using simple, extensible APIs

About You

  • 5+ years professional software engineering experience
  • You are proficient in Python, with recent professional experience in a production level software engineering environment
  • You are familiar with type systems
  • You are familiar with HTTP APIs, especially REST
  • You have an eye for simple, pragmatic API design
  • Low ego, intelligent, sympathetic and collaborative 
  • Understands that tech is a means to an end, particularly for building customer facing products
  • Can communicate technical topics to non-technical audiences
  • Nice to haves: Experience with SQL, Docker, Statically typed language (Java, C++ or Scala) & GCP or other cloud services like AWS
     

To apply, please upload your updated resume in English.

Location: CDMX


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What's in it For You?


You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through:

  • 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

  • Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; work from another location for up to a total of 8 weeks in a year, 4 of those weeks can be out of the country and the remaining in the country, Headspace app subscription; retirement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

  • Culture:  Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.

  • Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters café networking.

  • Social Impact: Ten employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact.

  • Purpose-Driven Work: We have a superpower that we’ve never talked about with as much pride as we should – we are one of the only companies on the planet 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.


Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we’ve been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world’s most global news services – Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.

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 that celebrate diversity and inclusion. 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. 

Accessibility 

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our 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/Affirmative Action 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.

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Thomson Reuters Corporation

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Headquarter Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Employee Count: 10001+

Year Founded: 1977

IPO Status: Public

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