Lead Front-End Software Engineer

Description

• Lead the front-end engineering direction for Reuters’ content platform • Set architectural direction and communicate technical tradeoffs • Lead solution design reviews for new and existing features • Drive engineering standards and best practices across the team • Mentor senior and junior engineers • Unblock complex technical problems across the front-end codebase • Partner with Quality Engineering to embed automated testing earlier in development • Build automated quality gates into CI/CD pipelines • Root-cause and resolve production issues affecting the front-end platform • Participate in a DevOps on-call rotation • Evaluate and adopt AI-assisted development tools for code generation, code review, and test generation • Work on Reuters.com and mobile apps across product, design, and engineering • Represent front-end engineering to cross-functional stakeholders

Requirements

• 10+ years building highly scalable, customer-facing front-end applications • Experience leading engineering teams • Advanced TypeScript and modern JavaScript • Expert React • Expert HTML5/CSS3 • Advanced RESTful APIs • AWS proficiency at intermediate to advanced level • Git version control and CI/CD pipelines • Docker containerization • Automated testing frameworks: Jest, React Testing Library, Playwright • Performance optimization and security best practices • Technical leadership and mentorship • Quality ownership and shift-left testing • Stakeholder communication with technical and non-technical audiences • Independent judgment under ambiguity • Production problem-solving • Preferred: Next.js or other SSR/SSG frameworks, GraphQL, microfrontends architecture, AngularJS, Tailwind, Java with Spring Boot, AWS Lambda, MongoDB, Amazon Aurora, AWS Elemental Services, and video technologies

Benefits

• Flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year • Flexible vacation • Two company-wide Mental Health Days off • Headspace app access • Retirement savings • Tuition reimbursement • Employee incentive programs • Resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing • Two paid volunteer days off annually • Pro-bono consulting and ESG initiative opportunities • US health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs • 401(k) plan with company match • Competitive vacation, sick and safe paid time off • Paid holidays, including two company mental health days off • Parental leave • Sabbatical leave • Optional hospital, accident and sickness insurance • Optional life and AD&D insurance • Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts • Fitness reimbursement • Employee Assistance Program • Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit • 529 Plan access • Commuter benefits • Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance • Employee Stock Purchase Plan • Potential annual bonus based on enterprise and individual performance

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