IT & Software

Front-End Lead Software Engineer, Reuters

Thomson Reuters

London · Greater London · United Kingdom

Overview

In this senior leadership role, you steer the front-end platform for Reuters’ content ecosystem, aligning architecture with performance and user experience. You will collaborate with product, design, and engineering to guide Reuters.com and mobile apps, shaping how content reaches billions of readers. You drive a shift-left quality culture with Quality Engineering and own critical decisions that impact scalability, reliability, and velocity. This position offers influence across a world-class news organization and hands-on opportunities to modernize at scale. You will be challenged to balance technical tradeoffs while delivering measurable impact to users and stakeholders.

Pay / Benefits
  • flexible vacation
  • mental health days
  • Headspace app
  • retirement savings
  • tuition reimbursement
  • employee incentive programs
Responsibilities
  • Own architectural direction for the front-end platform and communicate tradeoffs to technical and non-technical audiences
  • Lead solution design reviews and set engineering standards and best practices
  • Mentor senior and junior engineers and unblock complex problems
  • Partner with Quality Engineering to embed automated testing early in the lifecycle
  • Build automated quality gates in CI/CD to catch regressions before production
  • Root-cause production front-end issues and participate in on-call rotation
  • Evaluate and adopt AI-assisted development tools to boost velocity and code quality
Key requirements
  • 10+ years building scalable, customer-facing front-end applications
  • experience leading engineering teams
  • 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
  • Technical leadership and mentorship
  • Quality ownership and shift-left testing advocacy
  • Stakeholder communication to technical and non-technical audiences
  • Next.js or other SSR/SSG frameworks
  • GraphQL
  • Microfrontends architecture

Reference: WJ-747_31203142

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