UX Engineer, Front-end development

UX Engineer, Front-end development

Are you a curious, smart, self-driven UX professional who loves the challenge of turning complex problems and constraints into elegant solutions that meet a customer’s needs? Come and join us as we work to transform Thomson Reuters into a truly Digital company. We aren’t just changing the way customers engage with us, we are transforming and re-imagining our business, by focusing on the individual user.  Our work focuses on a large portfolio of transformational efforts as we work together to deliver on the promise of making it easy to do business with Thomson Reuters. Our customers range from small entrepreneurs to large corporations and government clients across the globe. They are under a lot of pressure to ensure the products and services they purchase meet their business needs and are confident in knowing how to use them.   

Role Summary

As a UX Engineer on the UX Engineering team, you’ll work closely with designers, software engineers, content strategists, accessibility specialists, product owners, and researchers to develop, grow, and maintain our global design system. Come join a group of passionate design professionals, who are focused on growing and scaling an organization-wide world-class platform. You may also work on a side project initiative in addition to project work.  

About the Role  

As a UX Engineer, you will: 

• Create and build: Have deep experience with responsive UI design methodology and processes (user-centered and iterative design). Translate design language into a reusable code library. Create scalable and accessible components. Implement brand and animation standards. Document and communicate with project teams. 

• Be part of a collaborative team: Work closely with the UX Designers, Accessibility Specialists, Content Strategists, and UX Researchers in a collaborative team-oriented environment to create, test, and support HTML/SASS components and static UI patterns. Use tools to speed up development across our entire organization. Advocate for the user’s needs while developing features that align to the needs of the user. 

• Be an Effective Communicator: Share ideas, participate in peer reviews, and exhibit strong listening skills. Justify and articulate development decisions during code reviews. You participate in brainstorming sessions with product teams and can share outcomes using excellent written and verbal communication skills. 

• Be Curious & Innovative: Continuously learning next-generation user experiences, and technology, and contributing to process development practices. Turn user research and usability feedback into easy-to-use solutions. Gather, analyze, and synthesize UX needs for complex product and user requirements. 

About You 

You’re a fit for this role if you have: 

Basic qualifications: 

• Minimum 2+ years of experience developing large, complex front-end web applications  

• Bachelor's degree is preferred; an Associate degree in a technology-related field and/or experience may be considered 

• Familiarity with working in an Agile development environment 

• Knowledge of web standards and accessibility (W3C and WCAG 2.1 AA), interaction design, and user-centered design principles 

• Portfolio of work - demonstration of skillset 

• Knowledge of CSS-driven layouts and manipulating the DOM 

• Ability to create production-quality CSS, SASS, and semantic HTML for complex web applications with support for mobile and tablet devices 

• Implement browser-independent designs and fix cross-browser issues (Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari) on all platforms 

• Design experience with a focus on design tenants, aesthetics, and detail 

Preferred qualifications:  

• Modular CSS, SASS mixins and functions 

• Knowledge of accessibility standards, WCAG compliance, and accessible feature development 

• Developing mobile and accessible features for customer-facing products and tablet devices   

• Understanding of Web Components, React, and Angular frameworks 

• Ability to follow technical specifications and production processes 

• Ability to create and update design tokens 

• Ability to adjust graphics and create/optimize graphic assets as needed to complete designs 

• Ability to work with source/version control software 

• Aptitude to understand and build SEO/semantic solutions 

• Understand iconography and SVG graphics and performance 

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: 

• COVID-19 Response: Currently, as part of our COVID-19 a majority of our employees are working remotely and following local COVID-19 bylaws and guidelines, with the majority of our offices planning to embrace a hybrid work environment consisting of in-office and remote work in 2022.
• 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.

#LI-RN1

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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