Ready to build the future of AI-powered legal technology from the ground up? Join Thomson Reuters as a Lead Software Engineer on our Innovation & Custom Delivery team, where you'll transform cutting-edge AI concepts into production-ready solutions for our most strategic clients.

 

As a Lead Software Engineer, you'll be a technical architect and hands-on builder for custom AI solutions that directly impact major legal clients, court systems, and corporations. This isn't about maintaining existing systems it's about taking ambitious ideas from concept to production, fast. You'll work at the intersection of software engineering excellence and generative AI innovation, creating solutions that set the standard for what's possible in legal technology.

 

About the Role

In this opportunity as Lead Software Engineer, you will:

 

• Design and implement production-grade applications from scratch, owning the full stack from database schema to API design to deployment infrastructure

• Architect and build RESTful APIs and async, event-driven systems using message queues, event streams, and serverless architectures that serve as the backbone for AI-powered applications

• Integrate generative AI models into production applications, including building and deploying agentic AI systems using frameworks like LangChain, LangGraph, or AutoGen

• Implement Infrastructure as Code using tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK, and establish robust CI/CD pipelines that enable rapid, reliable deployments

• Drive technical excellence by establishing coding standards, conducting thorough code reviews, and making critical decisions about technology stack and architecture patterns

• Mentor engineers on software design principles, cloud architecture, and AI integration patterns while partnering closely with product managers, AI researchers, and client stakeholders

• Design effective prompt strategies, evaluation frameworks, and observability solutions for LLM-based applications to ensure quality and performance

 

About You

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

 

• 5+ years of software engineering experience building production applications from 0 to 1, with deep understanding of design patterns, SOLID principles, and clean architecture

• 3+ years of cloud and infrastructure experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK, or Pulumi), container orchestration (ECS, Kubernetes), and CI/CD pipelines

• Expert-level proficiency in Python or TypeScript/Node.js (ideally both) with experience in modern backend frameworks (FastAPI, Express, NestJS) and React

• Strong proficiency in building RESTful APIs with solid understanding of auth and API best practices, plus experience designing asynchronous, event-driven architectures using message queues or event buses

• Solid database expertise spanning both SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (DynamoDB, MongoDB, Redis) systems

• Practical experience integrating LLMs into production applications and hands-on work with agentic AI frameworks (LangChain, LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI, or similar)

• Understanding of prompt engineering techniques, RAG architectures, vector databases, and LLM evaluation methodologies

• Experience leading technical initiatives or mentoring engineering teams with excellent communication skills and ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders

• Strong analytical and debugging skills with ability to quickly assess technical trade-offs and make pragmatic decisions that balance speed, quality, and maintainability

• Comfort with ambiguity and changing requirements in fast-paced environments, with a self-directed approach and strong sense of ownership and urgency

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What’s in it For You?

• Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) 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.

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 $116,900 - $217,100. This role may also be eligible for an Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance. 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.

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.

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