Front-End Lead Software Engineer, Reuters
Thomson Reuters1 day ago
Base Salary
$118k - $220k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own architectural decisions for the Reuters front-end platform and communicate technical tradeoffs to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Lead solution design reviews and establish engineering standards and best practices across the team.
- Mentor senior and junior engineers and unblock complex technical problems across the front-end codebase.
- Partner with Quality Engineering to embed automated testing and testability earlier in the development lifecycle.
- Build automated quality gates into the CI/CD pipeline to catch regressions before production.
- Root-cause and resolve production issues and participate in a DevOps on-call rotation.
- Evaluate and adopt AI-assisted development tools for code generation, code review, and test generation.
- Represent front-end engineering to cross-functional product, design, and engineering stakeholders.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience building highly scalable, customer-facing front-end applications, including experience leading engineering teams.
- Advanced TypeScript and modern JavaScript experience.
- Expert React, HTML5, and CSS3 experience.
- Advanced experience with RESTful APIs and intermediate-to-advanced AWS experience.
- Experience with Git version control, CI/CD pipelines, and Docker containerization.
- Experience with Jest, React Testing Library, and Playwright.
- Experience with front-end performance optimization and security best practices.
- Strong technical leadership, mentorship, quality ownership, stakeholder communication, independent judgment, and production problem-solving skills.
- Preferred experience with Next.js or other SSR/SSG frameworks, GraphQL, microfrontends architecture, and video technologies.
- Familiarity with AngularJS, Tailwind, Java, Spring Boot, AWS Lambda, MongoDB, Amazon Aurora, and AWS Elemental Services.
Benefits
- Flexible work arrangements, including the ability to work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year.
- Flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days, Headspace access, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and wellbeing resources.
- US benefits may include health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance, a 401(k) plan with company match, paid holidays, parental leave, sabbatical leave, commuter benefits, fitness reimbursement, and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
- Two paid volunteer days annually and opportunities for pro-bono consulting and ESG initiatives.
- The role may be eligible for an annual bonus; the posting closes 11/08/2026.
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About Thomson Reuters
Thomson Reuters builds research platforms, workflow software, and data services for legal, tax and accounting, compliance, and government professionals, and operates the Reuters global news service. Flagship products include Westlaw for legal research and ONESOURCE and Checkpoint for tax and accounting, sold primarily via subscriptions and enterprise licenses. A public company headquartered in Toronto, it was formed in 2008 by combining Thomson Corporation and Reuters Group and is listed on the TSX and Nasdaq as TRI.