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.
Key Responsibilities
- Own architectural decisions for the front-end platform, balancing user experience, performance, and complexity
- 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
- Build automated quality gates into the CI/CD pipeline
- Root-cause and resolve production issues affecting the front-end platform
- Evaluate and adopt AI-assisted development tools for code generation, code review, and test generation
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years building highly scalable, customer-facing front-end applications, including experience leading engineering teams
- Advanced TypeScript and modern JavaScript
- Expert React
- Expert HTML5/CSS3
- Advanced RESTful APIs
- Intermediate to Advanced AWS
- Git version control and CI/CD pipelines
- Docker containerization
- Automated testing frameworks: Jest, React Testing Library, Playwright
- Performance optimization and security best practices
Benefits
- Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year
- Career Development and Growth: continuous learning and skill development opportunities
- Industry Competitive Benefits: comprehensive benefit plans, including flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, and more
- Culture: globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more
- Social Impact: opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives