Lead Front End Engineer, CoCounsel Core Skills

Thomson Reuters • New York, NY

21d

About The Position

Thomson Reuters is seeking a Lead Front End Engineer, CoCounsel Core Skills who will lead multiple and/or significant projects, programs and business initiatives, demonstrating creativity and ingenuity. Our ideal candidate is an engineer with at least six years of professional experience building applications used by real customers, is an exceptional communicator and fast learner. In this role, you will build user-friendly and performant designs, communicate well across teams to prevent and reduce tech debt, estimate and break down work, and work closely with product and design teams. About the Role: In this opportunity as a Lead Front End Engineer, you will: Champion AI-powered development tools that amplify team velocity and code quality Navigate and optimize our React/Angular mixed-stack MFE ecosystem, making strategic decisions about when to consolidate, refactor, or rebuild while ensuring seamless integration Set technical standards for UI implementation quality, performance, accessibility, and maintainability - leading by example with code that other engineers study to learn best practices Collaborate with backend engineers to design optimal API contracts, work with Product to challenge requirements that would create poor user experiences, and partner with Design to push beyond static mockups when AI capabilities enable better experiences Build tooling, templates, and developer-friendly abstractions that reduce friction and cognitive load for team members, documenting not just what the code does but why decisions were made Champion continuous improvement in how the team builds and ships features, representing frontend engineering perspectives in architectural discussions Provide mentorship and assistance for other team members About You: You’re a fit for the role of Lead Front End Engineer if you have the following required qualifications:

Requirements

• At least six years of work experience as a software engineer, writing production code
• Experience building complex frontend applications that users actually enjoy using, with demonstrated success in creating intuitive interfaces for complex capabilities
• Proficiency in React, Angular, or both, with understanding of their different strengths and appropriate use cases
• Experience with Micro Frontend (MFE) architecture and managing complex
• Track record of using AI development tools to accelerate work and improve code quality (e.g., Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or similar)
• Proven ability to refactor or consolidate codebases to improve maintainability, with examples of technical decisions that future engineers benefited from
• Strong collaboration skills working with backend engineers, product managers, and designers to deliver cohesive user experiences
• Focus on performance optimization, accessibility standards, and responsive design principles
• Experience with modern frontend development practices including component libraries, state management, and build optimization

Responsibilities

• Champion AI-powered development tools that amplify team velocity and code quality
• Navigate and optimize our React/Angular mixed-stack MFE ecosystem, making strategic decisions about when to consolidate, refactor, or rebuild while ensuring seamless integration
• Set technical standards for UI implementation quality, performance, accessibility, and maintainability - leading by example with code that other engineers study to learn best practices
• Collaborate with backend engineers to design optimal API contracts, work with Product to challenge requirements that would create poor user experiences, and partner with Design to push beyond static mockups when AI capabilities enable better experiences
• Build tooling, templates, and developer-friendly abstractions that reduce friction and cognitive load for team members, documenting not just what the code does but why decisions were made
• Champion continuous improvement in how the team builds and ships features, representing frontend engineering perspectives in architectural discussions
• Provide mentorship and assistance for other team members

Benefits

• 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.
• In the United States, Thomson Reuters offers a comprehensive benefits package to our employees. Our benefit package includes market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs, as well as a competitive 401k plan with company match. In addition, Thomson Reuters offers market leading work life benefits with competitive vacation, sick and safe paid time off, paid holidays (including two company mental health days off), parental leave, sabbatical leave. These benefits meet or exceeds the requirements of paid time off in accordance with any applicable state or municipal laws. Finally, Thomson Reuters offers the following additional benefits: optional hospital, accident and sickness insurance paid 100% by the employee; optional life and AD&D insurance paid 100% by the employee; Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts; fitness reimbursement; access to Employee Assistance Program; Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit paid 100% by employee; access to 529 Plan; commuter benefits; Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance; Tuition Reimbursement; and access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed