About this role
About the Role CoCounsel Legal Integrations is seeking a Manager, Software Engineering to lead the engineering team responsible for building, operating, and evolving Thomson Reuters’ Content Tools platform. Content Tools provide API-first access to TR’s legal content for AI-powered products, and this role ensures scalable, reliable infrastructure. The Manager owns end-to-end delivery across design, implementation, testing, deployment, and operations in a distributed, multi-team environment. What You'll Do
- Own the end-to-end engineering roadmap for Content Tools — spanning tool design and implementation, CLI and SDK exposure, CI/CD pipelines, evaluation infrastructure, and cloud operations — balancing new capability delivery with rigorous quality and reliability standards.
- Drive an API-first, contract-driven approach to tool development: every tool ships with a versioned CLI contract, schema, and clear ownership metadata that makes it discoverable and usable by consuming teams without direct engineering involvement.
- Establish and enforce the patterns, templates, and contribution standards that allow distributed teams to build and contribute to Content Tools.
- Govern and mentor a team of approximately 10 engineers; serve as the primary engineering accountability point for tool quality, reliability, and developer experience, while aligning roadmaps across multiple teams.
- Navigate a distributed development model in which tools are built and contributed by multiple teams across the organization, ensuring governance and design standards keep the ecosystem coherent as it grows. What We're Looking For
- Strong platform thinking and collaborative leadership; credibility in building API-first systems, ideally in high-stakes information domains where quality and retrieval precision matter.
- Experience owning end-to-end engineering roadmaps for tool ecosystems, including tool design, CLI/SDK exposure, CI/CD pipelines, evaluation infrastructure, and cloud operations.
- Proven ability to lead and grow a team of engineers (approx. 10) and work effectively across distributed teams.
- Expertise in establishing governance, patterns, templates, and contribution workflows to enable broad participation while maintaining tool quality and reliability.
- Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills, with a track record of delivering robust API-first platforms. Nice to Have
- Experience with legal content, AI-enabled products, or content tooling capabilities.
- Familiarity with API-first tool ecosystems and contract-driven development in high-stakes information domains. Compensation & Benefits
- Salary range and benefits not disclosed.