Staff Software Engineer
Company: Thomson Reuters
Location: New York, NY 10036
Salary: $183,100 - $340,000 a year
Type: Full-time
Posted: 2026-04-02
About this role
Staff Software Engineer
The global capital markets are among the largest markets in the world valued at $50T+ and growing. Transactions in these markets are complex. Critical, nuanced legal terms are woven into lengthy documents. These documents must be digested and analyzed by many different parties over the course of a single transaction and multiple decisions are made based on the terms laid out and quantitative and qualitative attributes within. This fundamental need plus a booming market drives enormous demand for precise extraction and benchmarking of legal terms.
As a Staff Software Engineer, Full Stack at Noetica, you'll help build robust backend systems and APIs that power our search-centric web experience that’s core to the workflow of our end users. This role is backend-leaning — you'll spend most of your time on server-side architecture, data processing, and API design, while also contributing to frontend features as needed. You will collaborate with a talented team of AI/ML PhDs, legal SMEs, and market strategists to design, build, and maintain scalable backend services. The backend service you will contribute to is the critical piece between our data product and our end users. Its system architecture decisions will influence the technical direction of our platform and decide our velocity of making impacts. Your contributions will directly impact the performance and reliability of Noetica's core infrastructure.
About the Role
In this opportunity as Principal Engineer, you will:
- Design and build scalable backend services and APIs that power our document analysis platform
- Write maintainable, high-performance server-side code and data processing pipelines
- Define clear, efficient API contracts and contribute to service architecture decisions
- Design and craft compositional API primitives to expedite the productionization of our ever growing list of document insights.
- Build and maintain integrations with third-party servi...