# Lead Software Engineer – CoCounsel Legal Desktop App

**Company**: Thomson Reuters
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $136,000 USD - $253,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are looking for a Lead Software Engineer to join the CoCounsel Legal Desktop App team. As the founding engineer, you will set the technical bar for the app, defining the architecture, setting engineering standards, and personally shipping code. You will work closely with the Engineering Manager and Product to shape the product and mentor junior engineers.

**Responsibilities:**

- Establish the technical foundation of the CoCounsel Legal desktop app, making early architecture decisions on framework choice, project structure, IPC patterns, packaging, and auto-update infrastructure.

- Deliver hands-on engineering contributions, writing production-quality desktop code across core features.

- Integrate with the CoCounsel backend, working closely with Agent Core and AI Platform teams.

- Define and uphold desktop engineering standards, establishing code review practices, testing strategies, and performance benchmarks.

- Mentor and support desktop engineers, providing technical guidance and pairing on hard problems.

- Partner with Product and Design, translating requirements and designs into technically sound, performant desktop experiences.

**Requirements:**

- 7+ years of software engineering experience, with significant depth in desktop application development for Windows and/or macOS.

- Proven experience leading technical direction on a desktop product.

- Track record shipping high-quality, production desktop applications in a professional or enterprise context.

- Hands-on experience with one or more desktop frameworks: Electron, Tauri, native Win32/macOS APIs, or equivalent.

- Experience integrating desktop applications with cloud APIs.

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Experience building greenfield desktop applications.

- Background in legal tech, productivity software, or professional-services SaaS.

- Experience building AI-powered desktop features.

- Familiarity with enterprise desktop deployment patterns.

**Benefits:**

- Hybrid work model

- Flexibility and work-life balance

- Career development and growth

- Industry-competitive benefits

- Culture of inclusion and belonging

- Social impact initiatives

## Skills

### Required
- desktop application development
- cloud APIs
- Electron
- Tauri
- native Win32/macOS APIs

### Nice to have
- greenfield desktop applications
- legal tech
- productivity software
- AI-powered desktop features
- enterprise desktop deployment patterns

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