Senior Product Engineer, Materia AI

Senior Product Engineer, Materia AI

Are you excited about building AI-driven software that redefines how professionals work? Join a dynamic and highly skilled team at Thomson Reuters, where we combine the agility and innovation of a startup with the stability and resources of a global leader. As a Senior Product Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in developing AI-powered systems that enhance accounting workflows through automation, intelligence, and seamless orchestration.

Innovate in a Startup-Like Environment

Be part of a fast-moving, forward-thinking group that is creating AI-driven software for accounting professionals. You’ll work with top AI and software development experts, leveraging cutting-edge technology to build intelligent and scalable systems. This role is for the CoCounsel for Accounting team, formed from the recent acquisition of the startup Materia.

Create Impactful, AI-Driven Experiences

Lead front-end initiatives to bring generative AI features to life with engaging user experiences. Your work will shape how thousands of accounting professionals leverage AI in their everyday workflows.

Collaborate Across Functions

Work closely with product managers, designers, and AI specialists to deliver elegant, high-performance React-based features. Your ability to translate complex requirements into beautiful interfaces will be key to our product’s success.

About the Role:

In this role as a Senior Product Engineer, you will:

Develop

• Own features from beginning to end, including ideation, working with cross-functional partners in product and UX, testing, launching, measuring impact, and iteration.

• Design, build, and maintain generative AI products such as Conversations, Accounting Research, Ready to Advise, and Workspaces

• Build user interfaces using Next.js, TypeScript, and Tailwind CSS to ensure performant, intuitive, and responsive experiences.

• Identify bottlenecks and optimize for speed, scalability, and responsiveness.

Collaborate & Lead

• Serve as a leader on front-end projects, scoping out timelines, guiding junior engineers, collaborating with cross-functional partners.

• Contribute to technical design decisions, ensuring code quality and best practices.

Champion UI/UX Excellence

• Apply strong design sensibilities to deliver polished, accessible, and user-centric interfaces.

• Proactively collect feedback from end users and internal stakeholders, and iterate accordingly

About You:

You are a fit for a Senior Product Engineer if your background includes:

Experience & Skills

• 5+ years building web applications at scale

• Passion for UI/UX and product design—enjoy refining details that matter to users

• Self-driven with a proactive approach to problem-solving

• Experience building new products or features from 0 to 1 or from ideation to release

• Excellent debugging skills and an eye for performance optimization

• Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration abilities

Bonus Points

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, HCI, or related field

• Experience working in a startup or similar fast-paced setting.

• Experience building Chatbot interfaces or other AI-native products

• Familiarity with large language models (LLMs), AI agent design, and/or prompt engineering

• Opinionated about front-end testing methodologies, A/B testing, and safe rollouts

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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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