Job Description Lead the front-end engineering direction for Reuters’ content platform as we modernize and scale the products that reach billions of people every day. You will set architectural direction, unblock the team on complex problems, and drive a shift-left quality culture in partnership with Quality Engineering. This is a senior technical leadership role with real influence over how one of the world’s most trusted news organizations builds for its professional audience. Reuters employs over 2,700 journalists across nearly 200 locations and delivers real-time text, images, and video in more than 20 languages. You will work within the front-end engineering team on Reuters.com and its mobile apps, bridging technical and business requirements across product, design, and engineering, and representing front-end engineering to cross-functional stakeholders. Key Responsibilities • Own architectural decisions for the front-end platform, balancing user experience, performance, and complexity, and communicate tradeoffs clearly to technical and non-technical audiences. • Lead solution design reviews for new and existing features, and drive engineering standards and best practices across the team. • Mentor senior and junior engineers, and unblock the team on complex technical problems across the front-end codebase. • Partner with Quality Engineering to embed automated testing earlier in the development lifecycle, making testability a first-class consideration in design and code review. • Build automated quality gates into the CI/CD pipeline so regressions are caught before they reach production. • Root-cause and resolve production issues affecting the front-end platform, and participate in a DevOps on-call rotation. • Evaluate and adopt AI-assisted development tools for code generation, code review, and test generation to improve team velocity and code quality. Required Qualifications Education and experience • 10+ years building highly scalable, customer-facing front-end applications, including experience leading engineering teams Technical skills • TypeScript and modern JavaScript — Advanced • React — Expert • HTML5/CSS3 — Expert • RESTful APIs — Advanced • AWS — Intermediate to Advanced • Git version control and CI/CD pipelines • Docker containerization • Automated testing frameworks: Jest, React Testing Library, Playwright • Performance optimization and security best practices Core competencies • Technical leadership and mentorship: guiding senior and junior engineers and setting standards the team adopts • Quality ownership: championing shift-left testing and automated quality gates alongside Quality Engineering • Stakeholder communication: presenting technical solutions and tradeoffs to technical and non-technical audiences • Independent judgment under ambiguity: making sound architectural decisions with incomplete information • Production problem-solving: root-causing issues quickly and reducing technical debt over time Preferred Qualifications Additional experience and technical skills • Next.js or other SSR/SSG frameworks • GraphQL • Microfrontends architecture • Familiarity with the team’s broader stack: AngularJS and Tailwind (front end); Java with Spring Boot and TypeScript with AWS Lambda (back end); MongoDB and Amazon Aurora (data); AWS, including AWS Elemental Services (cloud) • Experience with video technologies #LI-CH1     What’s in it For You? • Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance. • Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future. • Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing. • Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together. • Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives. • Making a Real-World Impact: We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.     In the United States, Thomson Reuters offers a comprehensive benefits package to our employees. Our benefit package includes market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs, as well as a competitive 401k plan with company match. In addition, Thomson Reuters offers market leading work life benefits with competitive vacation, sick and safe paid time off, paid holidays (including two company mental health days off), parental leave, sabbatical leave. These benefits meet or exceeds the requirements of paid time off in accordance with any applicable state or municipal laws. Finally, Thomson Reuters offers the following additional benefits: optional hospital, accident and sickness insurance paid 100% by the employee; optional life and AD&D insurance paid 100% by the employee; Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts; fitness reimbursement; access to Employee Assistance Program; Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit paid 100% by employee; access to 529 Plan; commuter benefits; Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance; Tuition Reimbursement; and access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Thomson Reuters complies with local laws that require upfront disclosure of the expected pay range for a position. The base compensation range varies across locations.

For any eligible US locations, unless otherwise noted, the base compensation range for this role is $118,400 USD - $219,800 USD.

Base pay is positioned within the range based on several factors including an individual’s knowledge, skills and experience with consideration given to internal equity. Base pay is one part of a comprehensive Total Reward program which also includes flexible and supportive benefits and other wellbeing programs.
This role may also be eligible for an Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance.
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