[Hiring] Software Engineer @Thomson Reuters

Role Description

As a Software Engineer on the Tabular Analysis team, you will help build tools that let legal professionals put questions to large collections of documents and get back answers they can trace to the source. It is live in CoCounsel today, and it is among the first products running Thomson Reuters’ own in-house model in production. You will work across the full stack, from the backend services that do the heavy processing to the interface lawyers use to read and refine results.

This role is aimed at someone early in their career who wants to move quickly. You will get real ownership sooner than is typical, you will be expected to use AI tooling to multiply what one engineer can deliver, and you will work directly alongside the senior engineers who designed these systems and are ready to teach them. If you are looking for a role where your ceiling is set by how fast you learn rather than by how long you have been doing this, that is the role we are describing.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and ship end to end:
• Take a feature from a written requirement through design, implementation, code review and production.
• Operate with a moderate level of guidance and own straightforward projects outright.
• Work genuinely full-stack:
• Develop across the frontend, the backend and the data layer, with attention to performance and security.
• Expect to work directly with database schemas and query performance.
• Use AI as a force multiplier:
• Apply AI coding and testing tooling to your own work, and help build AI capabilities into the product itself.
• Translate business requirements into solutions that use AI where it is the right answer, and do not where it is not.
• Learn the systems deliberately:
• Build real working knowledge of the core services behind the product.
• Share knowledge across the team rather than concentrating it in a few senior engineers.
• Diagnose and fix:
• Read unfamiliar code, run root cause analysis, troubleshoot production behavior, and act on issues raised by automated code quality inspection.
• Raise the quality bar:
• Contribute to automated testing strategy and to continuous integration and delivery pipelines.
• Treat test coverage as part of a feature rather than as a follow-up.
• Collaborate across functions:
• Participate actively in design discussions, agile ceremonies and cross-team work with Product.
• Build direct working relationships with the people who use what you build.
• Help others as you grow:
• Share what you learn, support colleagues on problems you have already solved.
• Contribute to a team culture where learning out loud is normal.

What makes this hard

• The correctness bar is unusual.
• Our users are lawyers. A citation that points at the wrong document is not a cosmetic bug, it undermines the entire answer.
• The scale is real.
• Working across large document collections surfaces problems that simply do not exist at small scale.
• We move quickly, so not everything is settled before work starts.
• Some of what you need to learn lives in one or two people's heads.

Qualifications

• Professional software engineering experience delivering production code in a modern language.
• Real strength in either frontend or backend development, and genuine appetite for becoming strong at the other.
• Experience integrating and consuming APIs in a cloud environment.
• Practical use of AI developer tooling in your own workflow.
• Evidence that you learn fast.

Requirements

• Be ready to point to something specific you taught yourself and then shipped.
• Explain how you went about it.

Benefits

• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance:
• Flex My Way policies to help manage personal and professional responsibilities.
• Work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year.
• Career Development and Growth:
• Culture of continuous learning and skill development.
• Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach.
• Industry Competitive Benefits:
• Comprehensive benefit plans including flexible vacation and Mental Health Days off.
• Access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, and tuition reimbursement.
• Culture:
• Award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging.
• Values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.
• Social Impact:
• Two paid volunteer days off annually.
• Opportunities for pro-bono consulting projects and ESG initiatives.
• Making a Real-World Impact:
• Helping customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency.