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.
Reuters is seeking a talented Front End Architect to be a part of a small team of high performers. You will work primarily on web-based applications helping architect and build modular, scalable, and performant UIs and mentor your peers to do the same.
We are a supportive, close knit team following Agile Scrum methodologies. We use modern common and boutique technologies like JavaScript, Clojure/ClojureScript, Re-frame, Reagent/React, Docker, and AWS. The ideal candidate is an exceptional JavaScript developer with deep web development experience, well-formed opinions, and familiarity with functional programming.
Reuters News Agency engineering team develops business-critical applications and services for the Reuters news organization. We provide publishers and broadcasters with news text, photos, audio, and video over both internet and satellite, while also providing web-scale hosted content solution to digital publishers.
About the Role
As a Front End Architect you will:
Architect, build, and test scalable web applications
Mentor peers, providing code reviews, feedback and technical guidance
Explore and implement intuitive and compelling experiences
Define strategy for, and contribute to, refactoring to meet architectural vision.
Estimate work scope and time and meet deadlines
About You
To be considered for the Front End Architect role, you will need:
Required Skills:
Deep knowledge of modern JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS
Demonstrated ability to develop with a component first mindset
Ability to communicate design decisions and tradeoffs
Experience performing code reviews, as a mentor
Limitless interest in modern technologies, tools, frameworks, and languages
Adaptability to changing product needs to help seize business opportunities
5+ years of front end web development experience
Desired Skills:
Passion for writing clean, maintainable, well tested code
Functional programming experience
Experience with Clojure/ClojureScript
Experience with React
Knowledge of at least one web stack (Rails, Django, LAMP, etc.)
Automated cross-browser testing
Experience with Agile / Scrum process
Understanding user experience using quantitative data
What's in it for you?
Casual and diverse office environment where colleagues come from over 30 countries
Competitive salary
Flexibility and home-office opportunities
Two additional days off for voluntary jobs
Wellbeing scheme including private healthcare, pension, Multisport card and more
High standards of ethics in the workplace
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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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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:
Our Culture: Hybrid work environment; emphasis on people diversity and environmental sustainability; robust learning opportunities; cohesive, supportive and smart colleagues
Learning & Development: Robust learning opportunities, CLEs, gig project opportunities across the company
Benefits: Competitive benefits package, bonus eligibility
Social Impact: Pro bono and volunteer opportunities, including allotment of work hours to do so
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.
