Front-End Lead Software Engineer, Reuters

Thomson Reuters•New York, NY

1d•$118,400 - $219,800

About The Position

Lead the front-end engineering direction for Reuters’ content platform as the products are modernized and scaled. This senior technical leadership role sets architectural direction, helps resolve complex technical problems, and promotes a shift-left quality culture in partnership with Quality Engineering. The role is part of the front-end engineering team working on Reuters.com and its mobile apps. It bridges technical and business requirements across product, design, and engineering, and represents front-end engineering to cross-functional stakeholders. The position also involves participating in a DevOps on-call rotation and evaluating AI-assisted development tools.

Requirements

10+ years building highly scalable, customer-facing front-end applications, including experience leading engineering teams.
Advanced TypeScript and modern JavaScript skills.
Expert React skills.
Expert HTML5/CSS3 skills.
Advanced RESTful API skills.
Intermediate to advanced AWS skills.
Experience with Git version control and CI/CD pipelines.
Experience with Docker containerization.
Experience with automated testing frameworks such as Jest, React Testing Library, and Playwright.
Performance optimization and security best practices.
Technical leadership and mentorship, including guiding senior and junior engineers and setting standards.
Quality ownership, including championing shift-left testing and automated quality gates with Quality Engineering.
Ability to present technical solutions and tradeoffs to technical and non-technical audiences.
Independent judgment and sound architectural decision-making under ambiguity.
Production problem-solving skills, including quickly root-causing issues and reducing technical debt.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Next.js or other SSR/SSG frameworks.
Experience with GraphQL.
Experience with microfrontends architecture.
Familiarity with the broader stack: AngularJS and Tailwind on the front end; Java with Spring Boot and TypeScript with AWS Lambda on the back end; MongoDB and Amazon Aurora for data; and AWS, including AWS Elemental Services.
Experience with video technologies.

Responsibilities

Own front-end platform architectural decisions, balancing user experience, performance, and complexity, and communicate tradeoffs to technical and non-technical audiences.
Lead solution design reviews for new and existing features and drive engineering standards and best practices across the team.
Mentor senior and junior engineers and unblock the team on complex technical problems across the front-end codebase.
Partner with Quality Engineering to embed automated testing earlier in the development lifecycle and make testability a first-class consideration in design and code review.
Build automated quality gates into the CI/CD pipeline to catch regressions before production.
Root-cause and resolve production issues affecting the front-end platform and participate in a DevOps on-call rotation.
Evaluate and adopt AI-assisted development tools for code generation, code review, and test generation to improve team velocity and code quality.

Benefits

Flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year.
Flexible vacation.
Two company-wide Mental Health Days off.
Access to the Headspace app.
Retirement savings plan with company match.
Tuition reimbursement.
Employee incentive programs.
Resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
Two paid volunteer days off annually.
Health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance.
Paid holidays.
Parental leave.
Sabbatical leave.
Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts.
Fitness reimbursement.
Employee Assistance Program.
Commuter benefits.
Adoption and Surrogacy Assistance.
Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
Annual bonus eligibility based on enterprise and individual performance.