Lead Front End Engineer, CoCounsel AI Drafting

Ready to architect user interfaces that make AI-powered legal drafting feel intuitive for attorneys - while simultaneously building developer experiences that make future engineers say, "whoever built this loved their craft"?

Join CoCounsel AI Drafting as our Lead Front End Software Engineer, where you'll deliver the customer-facing interface for AI-powered legal drafting while leading technical excellence across our React/Angular MFE ecosystem. This isn't about just implementing designs or maintaining the status quo - it's about architecting both the user experience AND the developer experience, leveraging AI tooling to amplify team velocity, and treating technical debt as strategic improvement opportunities. You'll work directly with the best and brightest at Thomson Reuters, collaborating across Intelligence, Content Integration, Document Generation, and Customer Experience teams.

About the Role

In this opportunity as a Lead Front End Software Engineer, you will:

• Deliver the customer-facing interface for AI-powered legal drafting features - building responsive, performant, accessible user experiences that make complex AI capabilities feel intuitive and natural for legal professionals
• Champion AI-powered development tools that amplify team velocity and code quality, while conducting continuous "repository retros" to make the codebase easier for future engineers
• Navigate and optimize our React/Angular mixed-stack MFE ecosystem, making strategic decisions about when to consolidate, refactor, or rebuild while ensuring seamless integration
• Set technical standards for UI implementation quality, performance, accessibility, and maintainability - leading by example with code that other engineers study to learn best practices
• Collaborate with backend engineers to design optimal API contracts, work with Product to challenge requirements that would create poor user experiences, and partner with Design to push beyond static mockups when AI capabilities enable better experiences
• Build tooling, templates, and developer-friendly abstractions that reduce friction and cognitive load for team members, documenting not just what the code does but why decisions were made
• Champion continuous improvement in how the team builds and ships features, representing frontend engineering perspectives in architectural discussions

About You

You're a fit for the role of Lead Front End Software Engineer if you have the following required qualifications:

• Experience building complex frontend applications that users actually enjoy using, with demonstrated success in creating intuitive interfaces for complex capabilities
• Proficiency in React, Angular, or both, with understanding of their different strengths and appropriate use cases
• Experience with Micro Frontend (MFE) architecture and managing complex
• Track record of using AI development tools to accelerate work and improve code quality (e.g., Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or similar)
• Proven ability to refactor or consolidate codebases to improve maintainability, with examples of technical decisions that future engineers benefited from
• Strong collaboration skills working with backend engineers, product managers, and designers to deliver cohesive user experiences
• Focus on performance optimization, accessibility standards, and responsive design principles
• Experience with modern frontend development practices including component libraries, state management, and build optimization

Additional preferred qualifications include:

• Background in AI product development or other rapidly evolving technical domains
• Track record of improving developer experience through tooling, documentation, or process improvements
• Technical mentorship experience through code reviews, pairing sessions, or knowledge sharing initiatives
• Demonstrated continuous improvement mindset in both product quality and codebase health

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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.

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.

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