Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Thomson Reuters is a global provider of trusted content and technology serving legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media professionals. The Engineering Manager will lead and grow backend and AI engineering teams building AI-powered systems for CoCounsel Tax, while driving engineering health, product strategy, technical direction, cross-team collaboration, and tax-domain expertise.
Responsibilities
- Build and grow the team. Hire, mentor, and develop a high-performing group of backend and AI engineers. Partner on cross-org engineering hiring to grow the broader CoCounsel Tax organization
- Drive velocity and engineering health. Partner with engineering leaders to improve team processes, rituals, code review, and ways of working so engineers can ship faster with confidence
- Set direction with product and design. Collaborate with PM and Design on road mapping and longer-term planning, ensuring the team is organized around the right priorities with clear ownership
- Be a thought partner on agentic tax workflows. Help shape the technical direction of a more agentic future for tax workflows
- Scope AI features end-to-end. Be involved early in the design and scoping of AI-driven features across the product, working closely with Labs/Research teams
- Remove friction across the org. Identify and resolve cross-team blockers so engineers can focus on the highest-leverage work, and drive process improvements that scale across the broader organization
- Grow domain depth. Over time, develop deep expertise in the tax ecosystem, and the automation opportunities within it
Skills
- 8+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, with 3+ years managing engineering teams
- Track record of leading teams that ship production-grade backend systems at scale
- Strong technical foundation in backend development and cloud infrastructure; comfortable diving into architecture discussions, code reviews, and design decisions
- Experience partnering with PM, Design, and cross-functional leaders to set strategy and execute against it
- Excellent communicator; able to set clear goals, give direct feedback, and align stakeholders across an org
- Comfortable operating in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment where priorities evolve quickly
- Experience shipping AI-driven or agentic systems in production (LLM orchestration, RAG, agent frameworks, evaluation pipelines, etc.)
- Strong technical foundation in Python and AWS
- Familiarity with modern LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic) and how to productionize them reliably
- Background managing mixed teams of backend and AI/ML engineers
- Exposure to tax, accounting, or other regulated professional domains
Benefits
- 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.
- Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities.
- Work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year.
- Grow My Way programming and a skills-first approach with tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.
- Flexible vacation.
- Two company-wide Mental Health Days off.
- Access to the Headspace app.
- Retirement savings.
- Tuition reimbursement.
- Employee incentive programs.
- Resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
- Two paid volunteer days off annually.
- 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, including market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs.
- Competitive 401k plan with company match.
- Competitive vacation, sick and safe paid time off.
- Paid holidays, including two company mental health days off.
- Parental leave.
- Sabbatical leave.
- Optional hospital, accident and sickness insurance paid 100% by the employee.
- Optional life and AD&D insurance paid 100% by the employee.
- Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts.
- Fitness reimbursement.
- Access to Employee Assistance Program.
- Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit paid 100% by employee.
- Access to 529 Plan.
- Commuter benefits.
- Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance.
- Access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
- This role may also be eligible for an Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance.
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