Lead Software Engineer I

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118K-220K Annually
Senior level
Information Technology
The Role
Lead full-stack development of customer-facing features across React/TypeScript frontends and Python backends; design and deliver AI-powered capabilities (LLM integrations, agentic workflows, MCP/A2A tooling); set technical standards, mentor engineers, collaborate with product/design/platform teams, and drive initiatives from design through production.
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Job Description

We’re looking for a Lead Engineer to join the CoCounsel Applications team and play a hands-on technical leadership role in building and evolving our external integration strategy leveraging MCP and A2A . In this role, you’ll own and deliver full-stack solutions across our frontend and backend systems, lead by example in code, and work closely with product, design, and platform partners to deliver high-impact, customer-facing features. 

About the role: 
As a Lead Engineer, you will: 

  • Build End to End Solutions: Design and implement full-stack features across frontend and backend systems, including hands-on development in our React, Typescript and Python stacks — and direct contribution to AI-powered capabilities such as agentic workflows, LLM integrations, and MCP/A2A-based tooling. 

  • Set Technical Standards: Establish and uphold best practices for code quality, performance, accessibility, testing, and maintainability, leading by example through reviews and contributions 

  • Collaborate Cross Functionally: Partner closely with product, design, and backend teams to shape requirements, define APIs, and deliver cohesive user experiences 

  • Drive Execution: Break down complex initiatives, provide reliable estimates, and help the team deliver work from development through production 

  • Mentor Engineers: Support the growth of other engineers through pairing, code reviews, and ongoing technical guidance 

About You: 

You're a fit for the role of Lead Engineer, if your background includes: 

  • Technical Experience: 6+ years of professional software engineering experience building and shipping production web applications used by real customers, with active, hands-on coding contributions in the last 2–3 years 

  • Frontend Expertise: Some experience with modern frontend frameworks such as React, along with a solid understanding of TypeScript and frontend architecture 

  • Backend Skills & AI Skills: Strong experience building APIs and services with Python as a core language, and working familiarity with GenAI concepts including prompt engineering, agentic system design, LLM orchestration frameworks, and some familiarity with MCP/A2A 

  • Technical Leadership: Proven ability to lead through influence rather than authority, improving systems, reducing technical debt, and guiding architectural decisions 

  • Collaboration & Communication: Comfortable operating in fast-paced, ambiguous environments, with strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset 

 
Preferred Qualifications 

  • BA or BS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience 

  • Experience with performance optimization for web applications, including monitoring, profiling, and tuning for scale 

  • Hands-on experience building AI-powered product features, including working with LLM APIs, RAG pipelines, or agentic workflows in a production environment  

  • Familiarity with AI/ML infrastructure including vector databases, model serving, and cost/latency optimization for LLM-powered features 

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This posting is for proactive recruitment purposes and may be used to fill current openings or future vacancies within our organization.

What’s in it For You?

  • Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.
  • Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.
  • Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.
  • Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
  • Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.
  • Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.
  • Making a Real-World Impact: We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

Our use of AI within the recruitment process Thomson Reuters utilizes Artificial Intelligence (AI) to support parts of our global recruitment process. Unless you opt-out, our AI system will assess the information provided by you and compare it to the requirements listed for the role, and present the result to our recruitment personnel for further review. The AI system acts as a supporting tool, but there is always a human making the decision if you will be considered for the role.

In the United States, Thomson Reuters offers a comprehensive benefits package to our employees. Our benefit package includes market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs, as well as a competitive 401k plan with company match. In addition, Thomson Reuters offers market leading work life benefits with competitive vacation, sick and safe paid time off, paid holidays (including two company mental health days off), parental leave, sabbatical leave. These benefits meet or exceeds the requirements of paid time off in accordance with any applicable state or municipal laws. Finally, Thomson Reuters offers the following additional benefits: optional hospital, accident and sickness insurance paid 100% by the employee; optional life and AD&D insurance paid 100% by the employee; Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts; fitness reimbursement; access to Employee Assistance Program; Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit paid 100% by employee; access to 529 Plan; commuter benefits; Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance; Tuition Reimbursement; and access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

Thomson Reuters complies with local laws that require upfront disclosure of the expected pay range for a position. The base compensation range varies across locations. For any eligible US locations, unless otherwise noted, the base compensation range for this role is $118,400 USD - $219,800 USD. For Ontario, Canada, the base compensation range for this role is $140,600 CAD - $190,600 CAD. Base pay is positioned within the range based on several factors including an individual’s knowledge, skills and experience with consideration given to internal equity. Base pay is one part of a comprehensive Total Reward program which also includes flexible and supportive benefits and other wellbeing programs. This role may also be eligible for an Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance.

About Us

Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness, and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

Thomson Reuters makes reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities, including veterans with disabilities, and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law. If you reside in the United States and require an accommodation in the recruiting process, you may contact our Human Resources Department at [email protected]. Disability accommodations in the recruiting process may include things like a sign language interpreter, making interview rooms accessible, providing assistive technology, or other relevant accommodations. Please note this email is not intended for general recruitment questions and we will promptly respond to inquiries regarding accommodations. More information on requesting an accommodation here.

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More information about Thomson Reuters can be found on thomsonreuters.com

Skills Required

  • 6+ years professional software engineering experience building and shipping production web applications
  • Active hands-on coding contributions in the last 2-3 years
  • Experience with modern frontend frameworks such as React
  • Solid understanding of TypeScript
  • Strong experience building APIs and services with Python
  • Working familiarity with GenAI concepts including prompt engineering, agentic system design, and LLM orchestration frameworks
  • Familiarity with MCP and A2A integration approaches
  • Proven technical leadership ability: improving systems, reducing technical debt, guiding architecture, and mentoring engineers
  • Comfortable collaborating cross-functionally and operating in fast-paced, ambiguous environments with strong communication skills
  • BA or BS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
  • Experience with performance optimization, monitoring, profiling, and tuning web applications for scale
  • Hands-on experience building AI-powered product features, including working with LLM APIs, RAG pipelines, or agentic workflows in production
  • Familiarity with AI/ML infrastructure including vector databases, model serving, and cost/latency optimization for LLM features

Thomson Reuters Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Thomson Reuters and has not been reviewed or approved by Thomson Reuters.

  • Flexible Benefits Flexible work options such as hybrid schedules and “Flex My Way” with Work From Anywhere allowances (including limited weeks abroad) are offered and positioned to support work-life balance. Feedback suggests policy-backed flexibility is a notable strength even though application can vary by role and manager.
  • Leave & Time Off Breadth Generous paid time off, enhanced bereavement, caregiver leave, two global mental-health days, and a sabbatical program expand time-away options. Paid parental leave is explicitly highlighted, with a global minimum described at 16 weeks.
  • Healthcare Strength Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage is paired with wellbeing resources such as EAP, mental-health tools, and fitness/wellbeing programs. FSAs/HSAs and related health benefits reinforce the depth of the healthcare offering.

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The Company
HQ: Toronto, Ontario
33,822 Employees
Year Founded: 2008

What We Do

Thomson Reuters (NYSE / TSX: TRI) informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. The company serves professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Its products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news. For more information, visit tr.com.

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