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About the Role

As Lead Software Engineer for the CoCounsel Legal Desktop App, you will be the technical anchor of a new desktop engineering team, defining the architecture, setting engineering standards, and personally shipping code that brings CoCounsel Legal to lawyers’ machines. You will work closely with the Engineering Manager and Product to shape the product from its earliest decisions, and mentor the engineers who join you.

Responsibilities

Establish the technical foundation of the CoCounsel Legal desktop app, making early architecture decisions on framework choice, project structure, IPC patterns, packaging, and auto-update infrastructure.
Deliver hands-on engineering contributions, writing production-quality desktop code across core features.
Integrate with the CoCounsel backend, working closely with Agent Core and AI Platform teams.
Define and uphold desktop engineering standards, establishing code review practices, testing strategies, cross-platform compatibility requirements, and performance benchmarks.
Mentor and support desktop engineers, providing technical guidance and pairing on hard problems.
Partner with Product and Design, translating requirements and designs into technically sound, performant desktop experiences.
Contribute to the broader Application Experience engineering community, sharing desktop-specific patterns and insights with peer teams.

Requirements

7+ years of software engineering experience, with significant depth in desktop application development for Windows and/or macOS.
Proven experience leading technical direction on a desktop product.
Track record shipping high-quality, production desktop applications in a professional or enterprise context.
Hands-on experience with one or more desktop frameworks: Electron, Tauri, native Win32/macOS APIs, or equivalent.
Experience integrating desktop applications with cloud APIs including streaming, authentication (OAuth/SSO), and local file system access.
Ability to mentor and elevate engineers through code review, design discussions, and technical pairing.
Clear technical communicator — able to articulate tradeoffs to both engineers and non-technical product partners.
Experience building greenfield desktop applications — ideally as the first or founding engineer.
Background in legal tech, productivity software, or professional-services SaaS.
Experience building AI-powered desktop features — streaming chat interfaces, local inference, context-aware actions.
Familiarity with enterprise desktop deployment patterns (MSI/PKG packaging, MDM, SSO, app configuration).

Skills

Desktop application development
Windows development
macOS development
Electron
Tauri
Win32 APIs
macOS APIs
Cloud API integration
Streaming
Authentication (OAuth/SSO)
Local file system access
Code review
Design discussions
Technical pairing
Technical communication
Greenfield development
Legal tech
Productivity software
Professional-services SaaS
AI-powered desktop features
Enterprise desktop deployment

Location

New York City
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Irvine, CA
McLean, VA
Washington, DC

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

7+ years of software engineering experience
Lead

Salary/Compensations

$136,000 USD - $253,000 USD
$118,400 USD - $219,800 USD

Benefits

Flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office)
Flex My Way policies
Work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year
Continuous learning and skill development programming
Flexible vacation
Two company-wide Mental Health Days off
Access to the Headspace app
Retirement savings
Tuition reimbursement
Employee incentive programs
Resources for mental, financial, and physical wellbeing
Two paid volunteer days off annually
Market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs
Competitive 401k plan with company match
Competitive vacation, sick and safe paid time off
Paid holidays
Parental leave
Sabbatical leave
Optional hospital, accident and sickness insurance
Optional life and AD&D insurance
Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts
Fitness reimbursement
Access to Employee Assistance Program
Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit
Access to 529 Plan
Commuter benefits
Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance
Employee Stock Purchase Plan

About the Company

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.
Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

Equal Opportunity

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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