About the Role
As the founding engineer for CoCounsel Legal on mobile, you will set the technical direction and establish the foundation for the CoCounsel Legal mobile app on iOS and Android. You will drive architecture decisions, set engineering standards, mentor team members, and contribute to product delivery, collaborating closely with management and product teams.
Responsibilities
- Establish the technical foundation of the CoCounsel Legal mobile app, making early architecture decisions on platform strategy, project structure, state management, offline handling, and CI/CD.
- Deliver hands-on engineering contributions, writing production-quality iOS and/or Android code across core features.
- Integrate with the CoCounsel backend, working closely with Agent Core and AI Platform teams to connect the mobile app to agent APIs, streaming responses, file and workspace infrastructure, and user context.
- Define and uphold mobile engineering standards, establishing code review practices, testing approaches, performance benchmarks, and accessibility requirements.
- Mentor and support mobile engineers, providing technical guidance, pairing on complex problems, and helping engineers grow their skills.
- Partner with Product and Design, translating requirements and designs into technically sound, performant mobile experiences.
- Contribute to the broader Application Experience engineering community, sharing mobile-specific insights and patterns with peer teams.
Requirements
- 7+ years of software engineering experience, with significant depth in iOS (Swift/SwiftUI) and/or Android (Kotlin/Jetpack Compose) development.
- Proven experience leading technical direction on a mobile product, including architecture decisions, technology choices, and engineering standards.
- Track record shipping high-quality, production mobile applications to real users in a professional or enterprise context.
- Experience integrating mobile apps with cloud APIs including streaming, authentication (OAuth/SSO), and file handling.
- Strong sense of mobile UX quality — deep familiarity with platform conventions, accessibility, and performance expectations on iOS and Android.
- Ability to mentor and elevate other engineers through code review, pairing, and design discussions.
- Clear technical communicator — able to explain tradeoffs to both engineers and non-technical product partners.
- Experience with cross-platform frameworks (e.g., React Native, Flutter) and understanding of when to use them vs. native.
- Background in legal tech, productivity software, or other professional-services SaaS products.
- Experience building AI-powered mobile features — streaming chat interfaces, voice input, contextual actions.
- Familiarity with enterprise mobile deployment (MDM, app configuration, SSO) and associated security requirements.
Skills
- iOS (Swift/SwiftUI)
- Android (Kotlin/Jetpack Compose)
- Cloud API integration
- Streaming
- Authentication (OAuth/SSO)
- File handling
- Mobile UX quality
- Platform conventions
- Accessibility
- Performance optimization
- Cross-platform frameworks (React Native, Flutter)
- AI-powered mobile features
- Enterprise mobile deployment (MDM, app configuration, SSO)
- Security requirements
Location
- New York City, NY
- San Francisco, CA
- Los Angeles, CA
- Irvine, CA
- McLean, VA
- Washington, DC
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year
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
- Flex My Way policies
- Work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year
- Continuous learning and skill development
- Grow My Way 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, physical, and financial wellbeing
- 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 (including two company mental health days off)
- 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
- Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance
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
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