Manager, Software Engineering, CoCounsel Legal

Manager Software Engineering CoCounsel Legal

Where does human judgement meet AI output For legal professionals the answer is increasingly a table: a structured surface where they verify compare and refine what AI produces across thousands of documents before a real decision gets made. Do you want to lead the team building that surface for the worlds leading legal AI assistant

CoCounsel Tabular Analysis lets legal professionals run structured question sets across thousands of documents and review AI-generated answers in a collaborative filterable table. Launched in early 2026 it is now being integrated natively into CoCounsels next-generation agentic platform and the product vision extends well beyond that. As Engineering Manager you will lead a senior high-ownership team driving delivery that spans multiple platform teams. This is a role for an experienced manager energized by cross-team execution in a fast-moving competitive market.

About the Role

In this opportunity as a Manager Software Engineering you will:

• Lead and empower a senior engineering team: own hiring performance career growth and promotion advocacy and create the conditions for experienced engineers to own technical direction backing them with delivery management and organizational air cover.

• Drive delivery across team boundaries: plan sequence and unblock work that depends on platform files and agent teams; negotiate dependencies and integration contracts; and keep multi-team initiatives moving to committed dates.

• Ship iteratively under real deadlines: negotiate scope favor incremental releases and feature-flagged rollouts and make pragmatic trade-offs between speed and completeness in a market where competitors ship frequently.

• Build engineering resilience: reduce single-person dependencies in critical systems through design reviews pairing and documentation so the teams architecture outlives any one engineer.

• Represent the team in platform architecture decisions: advocate for the capabilities the product needs as the next-generation platform takes shape.

• Own roadmap delivery: partner with product and design to sequence and ship a roadmap that extends well beyond the initial platform integration grounded in customer problems and competitive insight.

About You

Youre a fit for the role of Software Engineering Manager if you have the following required qualifications:

• 2 years of direct people-management experience for software engineers including hiring performance management and career development this is not a first-time management role.

• 8 years of overall software engineering experience including hands-on work with Python-based backend systems and enough distributed-systems depth to engage credibly in architecture discussions about data platforms and high-volume processing

• A track record of delivering complex initiatives that spanned multiple teams for example a replatform migration or deep platform integration where much of the critical path sat outside your own team.

• Demonstrated delivery management under fixed external deadlines: scope negotiation incremental delivery feature-flag strategies and clear risk communication to leadership.

• Comfort operating amid organizational and product ambiguity you stay effective and keep a team motivated while ownership boundaries and scope are still being settled.

• Experience leading distributed teams that blend full-time engineers and contractors across time zones.

Additional preferred qualifications include:

• Experience building LLM-powered or agentic products or platforms that other teams build on.

• Background in document-intensive or regulated enterprise software (legal tax compliance financial services).

• Experience growing senior individual contributors into technical leadership roles.

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Replacement: This position is open due to an existing vacancy to support our evolving business needs.

Whats in it For You

• Hybrid Work Model: Weve 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 tomorrows 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 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 $127400 USD - $236600 USD. For Ontario Canada the base compensation range for this role is $140000 CAD - $175000 CAD. Base pay is positioned within the range based on several factors including an individuals 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.

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