Senior Frontend Software Engineer

As an employee at Thomson Reuters, you will play a role in shaping and leading the global knowledge economy. Our technology drives global markets and helps professionals around the world make decisions that matter.  Whether solving for today’s challenges or tomorrow’s aspirations, you will work with the industry’s brightest thinkers on diverse projects, creating next-generation solutions that deliver powerful results.   As the world’s leading provider of intelligent information, we want your unique perspective to create the solutions that advance our business—and your career.

Do you have passion and talent for JavaScript development? The Digital Experience Platform team is looking to add a strong Senior Web Engineer to a well-established global scrum team of web technologists. This position requires someone who is a passionate learner, an independent thinker, works well collaboratively across multiple disciplines, and is comfortable working with a variety of people and technology stacks. This is a chance to get in and make an immediate impact transforming the way our customers interact with us digitally as we shape the next generation of an enterprise wide Unified Experience. Your work will be seen by customers all over the world and used by teams across the organization, both as dedicated Webapps and UI markup and components for content  such as Adobe Experience Manager and WordPress. Your work will deliver creatively designed content that puts users’ needs first.

About the Role

As a Sr. Frontend Software Engineer you will: 

• Build and Develop – software applications by understanding user needs, writing well designed code, conducting validation/testing and executing full SDLC from design through release
• Be a Team Player – work in a collaborative team-oriented environment, share information, value diverse ideas, partner with cross functional and remote teams
• Be Curious & Innovative – continuously update yourself with next generation technology, development tools, and contribute to process development practices
• Be an Agile Person – with strong sense of urgency and a desire to work in a fast-paced dynamic environment to deliver solutions against strict timelines
• Be an Effective Communicator – articulate complex technical issues, and share ideas, participate in peer-reviews, and exhibit strong listening skills
• Take Ownership – responsible for performance, reliability and implement changes for improving efficiency of a technical component

About You

You’re a fit for the role of Sr. Frontend Software Engineer you have:

Basic qualifications:

• 4+ years development experience building web interfaces and applications leveraging React Redux, AngularJS, and other modern JavaScript based SPA frameworks 
• 4+ years development experience building web interfaces and applications leveraging modern JavaScript Fundamentals (Core/ES5/ES6) 
• Expert knowledge of TypeScript and popular libraries & frameworks 
• Excellent proficiency interpreting and transforming graphic visuals from Sketch into user interaction designs using HTML, CSS and JavaScript 
• Managing code and changes in a team environment to include experience with source control utilities, such as Git, Node + npm
• Development with compliance to specified standards such as accessibility standards in the clients’ region or domain. 
• Testing accessibility, cross-browser, cross-platform, and/or cross-device compatibility for inconsistencies. 
• Senior leadership working and collaborating within geographically and culturally diverse Agile scrum teams 
• Expert design skills including significant knowledge of core libraries and common design patterns 
• Strong attention to detail and ability to prioritize work effectively and independently
• Ability to write clean, readable code that is easy to understand 
• Able to provide technical guidance and oversight to junior team members 
• Customer first approach to software development 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills (ability to communicate effectively with technical staff, business analysts, product owners, management, and senior leadership) 

Preferred qualifications:

• Multi-stack development covering front-end/server-side development technology stacks 

• Experience with micro-services and RESTful API designs 

• Experience building components for Adobe Experience Manager 

• Experience working with Adobe Analytics, Adobe DTM, and Adobe Target 

• Leadership skills with a track record of mentoring, setting technical goals, and delegating tasks 

• Comfortable leading design discussions in addition to hands-on development 

• Web development experience: Java, .NET,  PHP, WordPress, Python and other core languages across the web technology industry. 

• Mobile development experience (e.g. ReactNative, Flutter, Swift, Mobile Angular, NativeScript)

• Cloud technology experience (e.g. AWS, Azure), or Docker is an advantage.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent years of experience 

We use a modern, collaborative workflow, developing transparently with strong documentation and coding standards. Progressive enhancement is key, and your work will scale intelligently to fit challenging demands in accessibility, usability and internationalization, operating within a tiered model of browser and device support that evolves over time. Testing is central to our development approach, and we keenly pursue browser performance as a core feature.

What’s in it For You

At Thomson Reuters, our people are our greatest assets. Here are some of the benefits we offer for your personal and professional growth:

Hybrid Work Model: Currently, as part of our COVID-19 response, our employees are working remotely and following local COVID-19 bylaws and guidelines with the majority of our offices planning to remain remote throughout 2021. Upon return, we will embrace a hybrid work environment consisting of in-office and remote work.

• Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.
• Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; company-wide Mental Health Day Off; Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
• 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: Eight employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact.

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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 25,000 employees across more than 75 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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