Senior Software Engineer AI, CoCounsel International

Senior Software Engineer - AI CoCounsel International

Were looking for a Senior Software Engineer AI to join the CoCounsel International team and work closely with our Labs team to build new AI agents and adapt them for our international products and this role youll build the backend services that bring these agentic capabilities to life and help take early Labs concepts into scalable production-ready features used by legal professionals worldwide.

Ifyourepassionate about building AI agents and bringing new capabilities to life for legal professionals around the worldwedlove to hear from you. Join us to build innovate and make a lasting impact on ourCoCounselapplication. Apply today!

About the Role

In this opportunity as Senior Software Engineer AI you will

• Build AI-Powered Backend Systems:Design and build backend services using PythonFastAPI and PostgreSQL to support real-time AI interactions and large-scale data flows with direct contribution to AI-powered capabilities such as agentic workflows LLM orchestration and content pipelines.

• Shape Platform Architecture:Define service boundaries system interfaces and scalable design patterns that form the architectural foundation of our AI platform.

• Productionize AI Capabilities:Integrate backend systems with modern LLM providers (e.g. OpenAI Anthropic) and implement reliable orchestration routing error handling guardrails telemetry and deep observability for performance and reliability.

• Collaborate Cross-Functionally:Partner closely with our Labs team product managers and designers to take early AI agent concepts and turn them into scalable production-ready features for our international products.

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

About You

Yourea fit for the role of Senior Software Engineer AI if you have the following required qualifications:

• Technical Experience:4 years of professional software engineering experience building and shipping production backend systems APIs and microservices used by real customers.

• Backend & Cloud Skills:Strongproficiencyin PythonFastAPI PostgreSQL and AWS cloud services with a deep understanding of distributed systems architecture and data modeling.

• Agentic AI Experience:Proven experience designing building and deploying production-grade agentic AI workflows including multi-step reasoning tool/API orchestration and LLM-as-judge or eval-driven quality gates serving real end users at scale.

• Technical Judgment:Excellent debugging skills and a proven ability to deliver production-readyhighly reliablesystems.

• Collaboration & Communication:Comfortable operating in fast-paced iterative environments with strong cross-functional communication skills.
  

Preferred Skills & Experience:

• BA or BS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience

• Experience with performance optimization for backend systems including monitoring profiling and tuning for scale

• Hands-on experience building AI-powered product features including 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

• Strong opinions on testing automation and operational robustness

• Prior experience working on products for legal compliance or other regulated professional domains

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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.

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.

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