Principal Engineer, CoCounsel Application

PowerToFly; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 169,000 - 219,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading legal technology company in Toronto is seeking a Principal Engineer for the CoCounsel application. This role involves driving innovation in AI solutions for legal professionals, leading technical strategies, and mentoring a global team. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in software engineering, AI technologies, and modern UI frameworks. The position offers competitive compensation, a hybrid work model, and a supportive culture focused on innovation and professional growth.

Benefits

Flexible Work Model

Enhanced Work-Life Balance

Career Development Programs

Comprehensive Benefits

Social Impact Opportunities

Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience with proven scalable solutions.
• Expertise in modern UI frameworks.
• Experience with AI technologies, including prompt engineering.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for AI projects.
• Design features for CoCounsel application.
• Integrate LLMs and generative AI technologies.

Skills

Software Engineering

AI Technologies

Interpersonal Skills

Cloud Platforms

UI Frameworks

Education

Degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

React

Node.js

Python

Job description

Principal Engineer, CoCounsel Application

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

Want to shape the future of AI in legal practice? Join Thomson Reuters as a Principal Engineer and drive innovation for CoCounsel, the leading AI Assistant for legal professionals.

At Thomson Reuters, we’re revolutionizing legal work through our CoCounsel Platform. As Principal Engineer for CoCounsel Application, you’ll partner with the Sr. Director for CoCounsel Application to define and execute the technical vision for our generative AI products, ensuring we deliver powerful, user-friendly, and innovative solutions that transform how legal professionals work.

About the Role

• Provide technical leadership and define software development strategies for critical AI projects, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
• Lead the design and development of innovative features for CoCounsel, advancing AI-native product experiences.
• Drive the seamless integration of LLMs and generative AI technologies into user-friendly applications for legal professionals.
• Streamline the use of Micro Front Ends to ensure low latency, scalability, and excellent user experience.
• Mentor a globally distributed team of engineering managers, architects, and developers to strengthen engineering culture.
• Lead complex technical initiatives, exercising autonomy in decision-making and managing technical risk.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into actionable technical solutions.

About You

You’re a fit for the role of Principal Engineer, CoCounsel Application if your background includes:

• 10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience with a proven record of developing scalable, web-based solutions.
• Expertise with modern UI frameworks (React, Angular, Vue, or similar), TypeScript, Node.js, and Python.
• Experience with AI technologies, including GenAI concepts such as prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and fine‑tuning.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to influence across organizational boundaries.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor others and promote best practices in release management, AI dev tools, and test-driven development.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity, make data-driven decisions, and deliver results in a fast-paced environment.

Additional preferred qualifications include:

• Experience integrating AI/ML technologies into customer-facing applications.
• Background in legal technology or enterprise SaaS environments.
• Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

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.

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.

For any eligible US locations, unless otherwise noted, the base compensation range for this role is $154,000 USD - $286,000 USD. For Ontario, Canada, the base compensation range for this role is $169,000 CAD - $219,000 CAD. 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. 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.

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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