Senior Software Frontend Engineer

Role Summary

The Client Application Technology team at Thomson Reuters is dedicated to creating compelling experiences that deliver Reuters' outstanding journalism to the world’s most informed professionals. This team focuses on increasing content discovery, optimizing conversion, and driving engagement across Thomson Reuters products and services. The technology emphasis is on robust web development and substantial backend service integration.

As a Senior Software Frontend Engineer, you will work with a distributed team of software developers, quality engineers, and product managers. Your focus will be on developing and integrating platforms and services that power Reuters experiences, encompassing content creation, curation, publishing, distribution, and e-commerce.

In this senior technologist role, you will develop business-critical applications and services for the Reuters news organization. This includes providing publishers and broadcasters with news text, graphics, photos, audio, and video over the Internet and via satellite, alongside offering web-scale hosted content solutions to digital publishers.

Major Responsibilities

We are seeking a talented Senior Software Frontend Engineer to join a small, high-performing team. Your primary focus will be on web-based applications, where you'll help architects and builders construct modular, scalable, and performant systems, while also mentoring your peers in these practices.

You will be part of a supportive, close-knit team that follows Agile Scrum methodologies. The team utilizes modern standard and boutique technologies such as 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, and is capable of defining the application's data model as well as building the UI views. Crucially, you will know how to strike a balance between pragmatism and perfection.

About The Role

• 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 significant autonomy (and responsibility) to make technical and implementation decisions
• Plan and model technical solutions to complex 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 through code reviews and technical guidance
• Estimate work scope to help forecast delivery timelines

About You

• Ability to self-direct and drive initiatives
• Demonstrated ability to turn a brief into a well-designed technical solution
• Deep knowledge and well-formed opinions around full-stack development within the JavaScript/TypeScript ecosystem
• Keen awareness of modern full-stack technologies, tools, frameworks, and languages
• Passion for writing clean, maintainable, well-tested code
• Ability to effectively communicate technical decisions and trade-offs
• Adaptability to changing product needs to seize business opportunities
• Ability to make and use diagrams as a clear means of communication
• 6-8 years of professional frontend engineering experience
• Solid understanding of TypeScript, Node.js, and React
• Infrastructure knowledge for building low-latency and scalable apps
• Professional communication skills - English B2+
• Experience performing code reviews and mentoring peers

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)
• Behavioural analytics reporting

What’s in it For You?

• Hybrid Work Model: Thomson Reuters embraces a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for office-based roles, ensuring a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.
• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way policies support managing personal and professional responsibilities, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year.
• Career Development and Growth: Through Grow My Way programming and a skills-first approach, you'll have tools and knowledge for continuous learning and development in an AI-enabled future.
• Industry Competitive Benefits: Comprehensive benefits include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, Headspace app access, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, and wellbeing resources.
• Culture: Enjoy a globally recognized, award-winning culture known for inclusion, belonging, and work-life balance, driven by values like customer obsession and continuous learning.
• Social Impact: Make a difference with the Social Impact Institute, offering two paid volunteer days annually and opportunities for pro-bono consulting and ESG initiatives.
• Making a Real-World Impact: Contribute to a company that helps customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency by providing trusted, unbiased information globally.

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. We consider it our duty to pursue objectivity, accuracy, fairness, and transparency. Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

Thomson Reuters is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer, committed to diversity and providing a drug-free workplace. We make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and sincerely held religious beliefs.

Key skills/competency

• JavaScript
• TypeScript
• React
• Next.js
• Node.js
• AWS
• Agile Scrum
• Web Development
• UI/UX
• Scalability