Thomson Reuters
Senior Software Engineer - AI (Materia AI)
$110K–$235K
United States of America, Eagan, Minnesota +3 · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 22, 2026
- Location
- United States of America, Eagan, Minnesota
United States of America, Frisco, Texas
United States of America, New York, New York
United States of America, Ann Arbor, Michigan - Experience
- Minimum 4+ years building backend systems, APIs, and microservices.
About the job
Architects and builds scalable backend systems that power AI-native features and services for tax and accounting products.
What you'll do
- Design and optimize backend services, APIs, and microservices for AI interactions, agents, orchestration, and content processing.
- Shape platform architecture and production reliability through safeguards, observability, testing, and resilient design.
- Lead engineering decisions, mentor teammates, improve CI/CD and DevOps automation, and collaborate across product and ML teams.
What they ask for
- Strong proficiency in Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, and AWS cloud services.
- Deep understanding of distributed systems, architecture, and data modeling.
- Experience with AI-driven systems or agent-based architectures.
- Ability to deliver reliable production-ready systems, with strong debugging and cross-functional communication skills.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with embeddings, vector search, or RAG retrieval patterns.
- Experience with modern LLM APIs or orchestration frameworks.
Pay
$127,000 USD - $235,000 USD base salary; $110,000 USD - $204,200 USD base salary
Tools
Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, AWS, OpenAI, Anthropic
AI focus
Builds backend infrastructure for AI interactions, agent architectures, LLM orchestration, and content pipelines; productionizes AI capabilities with safeguards and observability.
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