User Experience Developer

User Experience Developer

Come and join the largest and fastest growing UX team in Thomson Reuters! We are a highly-diverse, multi-disciplinary team, self-driven UX professionals that take great pride in our work, and love the challenge of turning complex problems and constraints into elegant solutions that meet our users’ needs. Our dedicated, open work space is ideal for promoting an agile, collaborative, supportive environment where diverse thinking, innovative design and experimentation is welcomed and encouraged. Our work focuses on a large portfolio of cloud-based, data-driven applications for the Legal market that gross over $1B annually, and range in size and scale from months to multiple years.  

Role Summary:

The User Experience Developer is responsible for working with designers, information architects and a team of developers to define HTML markup and create custom CSS stylesheets for complex, information-rich web and mobile applications. This position is perfect for someone who is passionate about the CSS and HTML, can follow coding standards already in place but wants to stay up-to-date on technology to help improve the code base, and is not afraid of new challenges.

About You:

You’re a fit for the role of User Experience Developer, if you have:

• Associate  degree in a technology-related field (Bachelor’s degree preferred)
• Knowledge of web standards and accessibility (W3C and s508)
• Minimum 2+ years experience developing front-end web applications
• Portfolio of work

Required Knowledge and Skills

• Ability to create production-quality CSS, SASS, and HTML for web applications with support for mobile and tablet devices.  Knowledge of JavaScript a plus.
• Knowledge of web standards, accessibility, CSS-driven layouts and manipulating the DOM
• Implement browser-independent designs and cross-browser issues (IE, Firefox, Safari etc) on all platforms
• Good eye for aesthetics and detail; can faithfully convert Photoshop design specifications into a functional, standards-compliant website

Familiar with:

• Modular CSS, SASS mixins and functions
• Developing for mobile and tablet devices
• Understanding of AJAX and jQuery (other JS libraries like backbone.js, and angular JS) is a plus
• Ability to follow technical specifications and production processes
• Ability to adjust graphics and create / optimize graphic assets as needed to complete designs
• Ability to work with source/version control software
• CSS image sprites

Competencies

• Ability to communicate ideas and collaborate with developers, designers, information architects, copywriters, project managers and executives.
• Strong time-management, multi-tasking and prioritization skills
• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent troubleshooting skills
• Innovative and a self-starter

Scope of Influence

• Ability to interact with other team members, both in UXE team and wider cross-functional capacity (technology, content, marketing, product development)
• Ability to build consensus between technology, quality and business groups and justify design decisions

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:

• 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 until further notice. 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.

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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