Senior Software Engineer (Legal), CoCounsel FDE
Thomson Reuters2 days ago
Base Salary
$102k - $219k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, and deploy end-to-end software solutions for legal workflows and AI-enabled products.
- Partner with legal customers and cross-functional teams to translate workflows and requirements into scalable technical solutions.
- Architect and build distributed, cloud-native systems using microservices, APIs, containerization, and orchestration technologies.
- Develop production-grade Python software with strong security, testing, reliability, and maintainability practices.
- Evaluate AI and LLM solutions and outputs for legal accuracy, relevance, reliability, usability, and safety.
- Design, test, iterate, and optimize prompts for specialized legal-domain tasks.
- Apply DevOps and Infrastructure as Code practices to support secure, reliable, automated deployments.
- Manage technical debt and balance immediate delivery needs with long-term scalability and system health.
- Mentor junior engineers through code reviews, technical guidance, coaching, and knowledge sharing.
- Collaborate with engineering, product, legal, and design partners to prioritize work and improve the software development lifecycle.
Requirements
- JD, formal legal training, or equivalent depth of experience in a legal-practice environment.
- Fluency in legal terminology and experience working directly with or alongside legal teams.
- At least 5 years of professional software engineering experience.
- Strong Python proficiency and experience building production-grade software.
- Experience designing and delivering distributed systems, microservices, APIs, and cloud-native applications.
- Strong knowledge of AI and LLM evaluation methodologies.
- Advanced prompt-engineering skills for legal-domain use cases.
- Experience evaluating AI-generated outputs for legal accuracy, relevance, reliability, and safety.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to engage lawyers and engineers.
- Ability to work independently, navigate ambiguity, and present in client workshops or knowledge-sharing sessions.
- Commitment to secure engineering, ethical AI, privacy, and confidentiality.
- Preferred: Python scripting experience; experience with legal technology platforms, legal SaaS products, AI-enabled legal workflows, legal practice-area tools, or Thomson Reuters legal products or comparable legal AI platforms.
Benefits
- Flexible hybrid work model for office-based roles.
- Work-from-anywhere flexibility for up to 8 weeks per year and supportive work-life policies.
- Career development, continuous learning, Grow My Way programming, and skills-first development resources.
- Comprehensive benefits including flexible vacation, two company-wide mental health days, Headspace access, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, incentive programs, and wellbeing resources.
- Health, dental, vision, disability, life insurance, 401(k) with company match, paid holidays, parental leave, sabbatical leave, and additional US benefits where applicable.
- Two paid volunteer days annually and opportunities for pro-bono consulting and ESG initiatives.
- Eligible locations include New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Irvine, McLean, Washington, DC, and Ontario, Canada.
Tech Stack
Categories
Forward Deployed
About Thomson Reuters
Thomson Reuters builds research platforms, workflow software, and data services for legal, tax and accounting, compliance, and government professionals, and operates the Reuters global news service. Flagship products include Westlaw for legal research and ONESOURCE and Checkpoint for tax and accounting, sold primarily via subscriptions and enterprise licenses. A public company headquartered in Toronto, it was formed in 2008 by combining Thomson Corporation and Reuters Group and is listed on the TSX and Nasdaq as TRI.