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 an experienced Front End Software Engineer to be a part of a small team of high-performers.
You will work primarily on the front-end web interfaces but also have the opportunity to work on back-end services in our web servers and AWS, primarily contributing to the Reuters Connect platform.
We use modern technologies and frameworks like JavaScript (ES6), Clojure/ClojureScript, Reagent/React, Docker, and AWS. The ideal candidate is an exceptional JavaScript developer with deep web development experience 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, and video over both Internet and satellite, and we also provide web-scale hosted content solution to digital publishers.
About the role
As a Front End Software Engineer, you will:
Design, build, and test scalable web applications
Explore and implement intuitive and compelling experiences
Refactor or re-implement existing web user interfaces
Estimate work scope and time and meet deadlines
Review peers’ work and provide feedback
About You
To be considered for the role of Front End Software Engineer, you will need to have:
Required Skills:
BS in Computer Science/Engineering or relevant work experience
Deep knowledge of modern JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS
Experience with React
Demonstrated ability to quickly learn new tools, frameworks, and languages
Adaptability to changing product needs to help seize business opportunities
Ability to communicate design decisions and tradeoffs
Desired Skills:
Passion for writing clean, maintainable, well tested code
4+ years of relevant work experience
Knowledge of at least one web stack (Rails, Django, LAMP, etc.)
Functional programming experience
Experience with Clojure/ClojureScript
Familiarity with performing code reviews
Understanding of user experience using quantitative data
Automated cross-browser testing
Experience with Agile development
Responsive design and CSS preprocessor experience
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.
