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Lead Software Engineer, CoCounsel AI Assistant

Thomson Reuters

Frisco, TX
Full Time
Senior
117k-217k
29 days ago

Job Description

About the Role

The Lead Software Engineer, CoCounsel AI Assistant role involves building AI-driven products within a team responsible for advancing innovative solutions for legal and professional clients. The team functions both as a platform and a product team, focusing on developing user-facing features, platform capabilities, and integrating evolving LLM technologies, all while fostering collaboration across the technical stack. The position emphasizes technical expertise, leadership, and effective communication in a fast-moving environment.

Key Responsibilities

  • Build user-facing features that drive the CoCounsel chat application and platform capabilities to enable partners across the company 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 with consideration of backend and platform implications, especially as LLM capabilities evolve and require coordinated changes across the stack.
  • Work collaboratively with colleagues across different levels of the technical stack.
  • Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and guidance to other engineers, including breaking features into stories and discussing implementation options.

Requirements

  • At least five years of professional software development experience.
  • Experience in technical leadership such as mentoring engineers and discussing implementation strategies.
  • Deep expertise in front-end technologies and architectures (e.g., React, micro-frontends/module federation, event-driven systems, TypeScript, API design, real-time communication 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 flexible in-office days.
  • Flexibility & Work-Life Balance policies including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year.
  • Career Development and Growth programs.
  • Comprehensive benefits including flexible vacation, mental health days, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, incentive programs, and wellbeing resources.
  • Social Impact opportunities with paid volunteer days and pro-bono projects.
  • Making a real-world impact by helping uphold justice, truth, and transparency.
  • Competitive health, dental, vision, disability, life insurance, and 401k plans.
  • Paid holidays, parental leave, sabbatical leave, and additional optional insurance and savings benefits.

Working at Thomson Reuters

Thomson Reuters fosters a culture of inclusion, belonging, flexibility, and work-life balance, guided by values such as obsessing over customers, competing to win, challenging thinking, acting and learning fast, and working stronger together. The company emphasizes continuous learning, professional growth, and making a positive social impact, with a global workforce committed to objectivity, accuracy, fairness, and transparency.

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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

Website

thomsonreuters.com

Company Size

10000+ employees

Location

Frisco, TX

Industry

Newspaper Publishers

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