Senior Front End Engineer

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Qualifications:

5+ years of front-end web development experience, Deep knowledge of JavaScript/TypeScript ecosystem, Solid understanding of TypeScript, Node.js, and React, Professional communication skills in English (B2+).

Key responsabilities:

  • Architect, build, and test scalable web applications
  • Write and own code from ideation to production
  • Educate and mentor peers through code reviews and technical guidance
  • Estimate work scope to help forecast delivery timelines

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Job description

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?


You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through:

  • Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; work from another location for up to a total of 8 weeks in a year, 4 of those weeks can be out of the country and the remaining in the country, Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

  • Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.

  • Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters café networking.

  • Social Impact: Ten employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact.

  • Purpose Driven Work: We have a superpower that we’ve never talked about with as much pride as we should – we are one of the only companies on the planet 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.





Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we’ve been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world’s most global news services – Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.

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 that celebrate diversity and inclusion. 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. 

Accessibility 

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our 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/Affirmative Action 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.

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Other Skills

  • Mentorship
  • Adaptability
  • Communication
  • Problem Solving

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