Senior Software Engineer (Legal), CoCounsel FDE

About the role

Thomson Reuters is hiring a Senior Software Engineer (Legal) for its CoCounsel Forward Deployed Engineering team. The engineer works directly with legal customers and cross-functional teams to design, build and improve software and AI solutions for legal workflows, combining strong engineering fundamentals with legal fluency.

Key responsibilities

• Design, develop, test and deploy end-to-end software for complex legal workflows and AI-enabled products.
• Partner with legal customers to understand their needs and translate them into scalable technical solutions.
• Build cloud-native systems using distributed services, microservices, APIs, containerization and orchestration.
• Develop production-grade Python software with strong practices for security, testing, reliability and maintainability.
• Evaluate AI and LLM solutions for legal use cases, including accuracy, relevance, reliability and usability.
• Design and optimize advanced prompting strategies for legal-domain tasks.
• Apply DevOps and Infrastructure as Code practices to support secure, automated deployments.
• Mentor junior engineers through code reviews, technical guidance and knowledge sharing.
• Work with engineering, product, legal and design partners to prioritize work and improve the software development lifecycle.

Required profile

• A JD, formal legal training or equivalent depth of experience in a legal-practice environment.
• Fluency in legal terminology and direct experience with legal teams.
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Ability to communicate clearly with both lawyers and engineers, and to work independently and present in client workshops.

Required skills

• Strong Python and production-grade software development.
• Distributed systems, microservices, APIs and cloud-native applications.
• AI and LLM evaluation methods and advanced prompt engineering.
• DevOps and Infrastructure as Code.

What we offer

• Flexible hybrid work model and policies such as work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year.
• Career development through Grow My Way programming.
• Benefits including health, dental, vision, disability and life insurance, 401k with company match, vacation, mental health days, tuition reimbursement and a 529 plan.
• Two paid volunteer days off and access to the Social Impact Institute.
• Base pay of $102,200 - $189,800 USD depending on eligible US location, with possible annual bonus.