Thomson Reuters

Reuters is seeking a talented Senior Front End Engineer to be a part of a small team of high performers. You will work primarily on web-based applications helping architect and build them in a modular, scalable, and performant manner while mentoring your peers to do the same.

We are a supportive, close-knit team following Agile Scrum methodologies. We use modern common and boutique technologies like JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Next.js, Clojure(Script), Playwright, Docker, and AWS. The ideal candidate is an exceptional JavaScript/Typescript developer with deep web development experience, well-formed opinions, an obsession with appropriate abstractions and reuse, being just as capable to define the application's data model as they are to build the views in the UI. Crucially, they know how to strike a balance between pragmatism and perfection.

Reuters News Agency engineering team develops business-critical applications and services for the Reuters news organization. We provide publishers and broadcasters with news text, graphics, photos, audio, video and graphics over both internet and satellite, while also providing web-scale hosted content solution to digital publishers.

About the Role

As our Senior Front End Engineer, you will:

• Work on a team (and in an organization) that prioritizes and respects you as a human being with a life outside of work
• Be granted a lot of autonomy (and responsibility) to make technical and implementation decisions
• Plan and model technical solutions to business problems
• Help architect, build, and test scalable web applications
• Write code that you own from ideation to production, and beyond
• Educate, lead, and mentor peers (provide code reviews, and technical guidance)
• Estimate work scope to help forecast delivery timelines

About You

To be our Senior Front End Engineer you will likely have:

Required Skills:

• Ability to self-direct
• Demonstrated ability to turn a brief into well designed technical solution
• Deep knowledge and opinions around full stack development in the Javascript/Typescript ecosystem
• Keeping up on modern full stack technologies, tools, frameworks, and languages
• Passion for writing clean, maintainable, well tested code
• Solid understanding of Typscript, Node.js, and React
• Infrastructure knowledge for building low-latency and scalable apps
• Ability to communicate technical decisions and tradeoffs
• Experience performing code reviews, and mentoring peers
• Adaptability to changing product needs to help seize business opportunities
• Ability to make and use diagrams as a means of communication
• Equivalent of 5+ years of front end web development experience
• Professional communication skills - English B2+

Nice to Have Skills/Experience:

• CLEAN Architecture
• Domain Driven Design
• Functional programming
• Microfrontends
• Monorepo Tooling
• Next.js (SSR/SSG)
• Automated cross-browser testing
• Agile / Scrum process
• Infrastructure & Deployment
• AWS
• Clojure(Script)
• Behavioral analytics reporting

If you’re a high performing front end engineer, with high standards, who wants to work on an ambitious team that solves interesting technical problems and has a healthy respect for personal wellbeing, we’d love for you to apply to join our team.

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What’s in it For You?

• 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.

As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law. More information on requesting an accommodation here.

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