Senior Software Engineer I

9 hours ago

Toronto, Ontario, Canada Thomson Reuters Full-time

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the CoCounsel Applications team and play a hands‑on role in building and evolving our external integration strategy leveraging MCP and A2A. In this role, you'll design and deliver full-stack features across our frontend and backend systems, write high-quality code every day, and work closely with product, design, and platform partners to ship high-impact, customer-facing features.

About The Role

  • Build End-to-End Solutions: Design and implement full-stack features across frontend and backend systems, including hands‑on development in our React, TypeScript and Python stacks — and direct contribution to AI-powered capabilities such as agentic workflows, LLM integrations, and MCP/A2A-based tooling.
  • Deliver Quality Software: Apply best practices for code quality, performance, accessibility, testing, and maintainability in your own work, and contribute to raising the bar through thoughtful code reviews.
  • Collaborate Cross‑Functionally: Partner closely with product, design, and backend teams to clarify requirements, help define APIs, and deliver cohesive user experiences.
  • Own Your Workstreams: Break down features into well‑scoped tasks, provide reliable estimates, and take your work from development through production with minimal oversight.
  • Share Knowledge: Contribute to a strong engineering culture through pairing, code reviews, and open technical discussion with your teammates.

About You

  • Technical Experience: 4+ years of professional software engineering experience building and shipping production web applications used by real customers.
  • Frontend Expertise: Experience with modern frontend frameworks such as React, along with a solid understanding of TypeScript and frontend fundamentals.
  • Backend & AI Skills: Experience building APIs and services with Python as a core language, and working familiarity with GenAI concepts including prompt engineering, agentic system design, or LLM orchestration frameworks; exposure to MCP/A2A is a plus.
  • Ownership: Track record of taking features from design through production, improving the systems you work in, and making sound technical decisions within your scope.
  • Collaboration & Communication: Comfortable operating in fast‑paced, ambiguous environments, with strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset.

Preferred Qualifications

  • BA or BS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
  • Experience with performance optimization for web applications, including monitoring, profiling, and tuning for scale
  • Hands‑on experience building AI‑powered product features, including working with LLM APIs, RAG pipelines, or agentic workflows in a production environment
  • Familiarity with AI/ML infrastructure including vector databases, model serving, and cost/latency optimization for LLM‑powered features

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

What’s in it For You?

  • Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment 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.
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