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Lead Software Engineer, CoCounsel AI Assistant

Thomson Reuters

Eagan, MN
Full Time
Senior
117k-217k
about 1 month ago

Job Description

About the Role

The Lead Full Stack Software Engineer role at CoCounsel AI Assistant involves building innovative AI-driven products for legal and professional clients. The team is responsible for developing user-facing features, platform capabilities, and ensuring efficient, responsive, and scalable solutions. This position combines technical expertise with leadership qualities, fostering collaboration across the technical stack and with stakeholders, to push forward the future of agentic UIs in a fast-moving environment.

Key Responsibilities

  • Build user-facing features that drive the CoCounsel chat application and platform capabilities to enable partners to reach customers.
  • Develop application code, framework, and component libraries that are delightful and easy to use, while promoting team efficiency and agility.
  • Bring deep expertise in frontend engineering, considering backend and platform implications, especially as LLM capabilities evolve, requiring coordinated changes across the stack.
  • Work collaboratively with colleagues across the technical stack and communicate effectively with stakeholders and leadership.
  • Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and guidance to engineering team members, and contribute to strategic and tactical solutions.

Requirements

  • At least five years of professional software development experience.
  • Experience in technical leadership, such as mentoring engineers and breaking features into stories.
  • Deep expertise in front-end technologies and architectures, including React, micro-frontends/module federation, event-driven systems, TypeScript, API design, and real-time communication methods like websockets, RPC, or SSEs.
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively.
  • Self-starter mentality with quick learning and adaptability.
  • Proven ability to execute both tactical and strategic solutions.

Nice to Have

  • Experience with Python, large language models, machine learning applications, metrics, and agentic systems.
  • Track record of utilizing cutting-edge AI tooling and techniques.
  • Strong opinions about the future of LLM-driven application UX.

Qualifications

  • Formal computer science education is a plus but not required.

Benefits & Perks

  • Hybrid work model with 2-3 days in the office depending on the role.
  • Flexible work arrangements including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year.
  • Career development and continuous learning opportunities.
  • Comprehensive benefits including flexible vacation, mental health days, access to Headspace, retirement plans, tuition reimbursement, incentive programs, and wellbeing resources.
  • Supportive workplace policies for work-life balance.
  • Social impact initiatives including paid volunteer days and pro-bono projects.
  • Opportunity to make a real-world impact by helping uphold justice, truth, and transparency.

Working at Thomson Reuters

Thomson Reuters fosters a culture of inclusion, belonging, flexibility, and work-life balance. The company values its commitment to serving professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media sectors by providing trusted content and technology. It emphasizes continuous learning, diversity, and making a positive social impact through initiatives like the Social Impact Institute. The organization promotes transparency, objectivity, and fairness, and encourages employees to contribute and grow professionally in a global, supportive environment.

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Job Details

Posted AtJun 25, 2025
Salary117k-217k
Job TypeFull Time
Work ModeHybrid
ExperienceSenior

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About Thomson Reuters

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thomsonreuters.com

Company Size

10000+ employees

Location

Eagan, MN

Industry

Newspaper Publishers

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