Japanese Speaking- Software Engineer/ Python Developer

Thomson Reuters; United States; Remote; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a creative bilingual backend engineer to join a dynamic team focused on developing innovative AI-driven solutions for the legal sector. In this role, you will leverage your programming skills in Python and your proficiency in Japanese to enhance applications that utilize state-of-the-art Large Language Models. This position offers a unique opportunity to blend technical expertise with creative writing, ensuring that legal professionals receive accurate and contextually relevant responses. Join a forward-thinking company committed to delivering impactful solutions that transform the way legal work is performed, all while enjoying a flexible work environment and comprehensive benefits.

Benefits

Flexible vacation

Mental Health Days

Access to Headspace app

Tuition reimbursement

Employee incentive programs

Hybrid work model

Paid volunteer days

Comprehensive health benefits

Qualifications

• 2+ years of software engineering experience, preferably in a startup.
• Proficiency in Python and APIs is essential.

Responsibilities

• Develop Python code and Japanese prompts for LLMs.
• Collaborate with legal professionals to gather requirements.

Skills

Python

Bilingual (Japanese and English)

API Development

Analytical Skills

Problem-Solving Skills

Creative Writing

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

SQL

Large Language Models

Job description

We are seeking a creative bilingual backend engineer to join the team behind CoCounsel. You will help build applications that interact with state-of-the-art Large Language Models (LLMs) that deliver cutting-edge and time-saving solutions to attorneys in Japan. CoCounsel is already capable of writing legal research memos, summarizing and reviewing documents, and red-lining contracts, just to name a few capabilities--all in minutes, not days or weeks. And we're just getting started.

As a Software Engineer, you will develop Python code as well as Japanese prose prompts to LLMs to help expand CoCounsel's early success and localize CoCounsel to the Japanese legal market. This mix of writing instructions for an interpreter and an LLM is well-suited for someone who can produce reliable backend code, and can also write creative, lucid, and effective prose instructions.

Our ideal candidate is a Japanese and English bilingual software engineer who can write high-quality Python, work with APIs (consuming and serving). Domain knowledge of the law or legal industry experience is highly desirable.

About the Role:

• Orchestrate LLM-driven experiences that delight our customers

• Develop Python code that interacts with state-of-the-art LLMs

• Write, test, and iterate Japanese prose prompts for the LLM that leverage your legal domain knowledge, ensuring delivery of accurate, legally sound, and contextually appropriate responses

• Develop Python code that interacts with data sources & services (APIs, SQL databases, etc.)

• Liaise with legal professionals and other teams at Thomson Reuters to gather and understand requirements

• Integrate the language models into multi-step systems, assessing their performance and making necessary modifications

About You:

• 2 years+ of production level experience in software engineering on an engineering/product team, preferably at a startup

• Proficiency in Python or other relevant programming languages

• Proficiency with APIs and SQL is a major plus

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills

• Ability to work both independently and in a collaborative environment

• Creative and clear writing skills

• Experience using large language models through code is preferred (such as model services from OpenAI, Anthropic, or Cohere; and/or open source models such as Llama and Mistral)

• Highly proficient in written and spoken Japanese.

• Familiarity with legal solutions in a product development context is desirable

What’s in it For You?

Join us to inform the way forward with the latest AI solutions and address real-world challenges in legal, tax, compliance, and news. Backed by our commitment to continuous learning and market-leading benefits, you’ll be prepared to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.

• Industry-Leading 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.

• 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, and hybrid model, 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.

• Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for inclusion, innovation, and customer-focus. Our eleven business resource groups nurture our culture of belonging across the diverse backgrounds and experiences represented across our global footprint.

• 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.

• 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.

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 match. These benefits meet or exceed the requirements of paid time off in accordance with any applicable state or municipal laws.

Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we’ve been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world’s most global news services – Reuters.

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 that celebrate diversity and inclusion. 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.

Accessibility

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our 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/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.