Senior Software Frontend Engineer

Senior Software Frontend Engineer - Reuters

Reuters is the world’s largest multimedia news provider, reaching billions of people every day and employing over 2,700 journalists in nearly 200 locations. Consumers, the media, and financial markets trust us to provide real-time text, images, and video news across every content category.

Reuters.com and related mobile apps are consumer-facing product platforms that enable our target customers to access all the content they need from a single destination. We are investing in our next generation of Reuters.com to make content discovery quicker and easier, improve client curation, and enable our targeted audience to consume more relevant stories (to their areas of interest) faster than ever before. We’re looking for colleagues who relish the nimbleness, creativity, and entrepreneurship required by our multimedia products. This position is based in our Bangalore, India, office, and you’ll work as part of a productive team with fun, friendly, and skilled co-workers.

Role Summary

The Client Application Technology team is dedicated to creating compelling experiences that deliver Reuters' outstanding journalism to the world’s most informed professionals. The team aims to increase discovery, optimise conversion, and drive engagement across Thomson Reuters products and services. The technology focuses on web development and substantial backend service integration.

You will work with a distributed team of software developers, quality engineers, and product managers focused on developing and integrating platforms and services that power Reuters experiences, including content creation, curation, publishing, distribution, and e-commerce.

As a Senior technologist, you will develop business-critical applications and services for the Reuters news organisation. We provide publishers and broadcasters with news text, graphics, photos, audio, and video over the Internet and via satellite, while also offering web-scale hosted content solutions to digital publishers.

Location: Bangalore, India, Hybrid

Major Responsibilities

We seek a talented Senior Front-End Engineer to join a small, high-performing team. You will primarily work on web-based applications, helping architects and builders build them modular, scalable, and performant, while mentoring your peers to do the same.

We are a supportive, close-knit team following Agile Scrum methodologies. We use modern standard and boutique technologies like JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Next.js, Clojure(Script), Playwright, Docker, and AWS. The ideal candidate is an exceptional JavaScript/TypeScript developer with deep web development experience, well-formed opinions, an obsession with appropriate abstractions and reuse, and is just as capable of defining the application's data model as they are of building the UI views. Crucially, they know how to strike a balance between pragmatism and perfection.

About the Role:

• Work on a team (and in an organisation) that prioritises and respects you as a human being with a life outside of work

• Be granted a lot of autonomy (and responsibility) to make technical and implementation decisions

• Plan and model technical solutions to business problems

• Help architect, build, and test scalable web applications

• Write code that you own from ideation to production, and beyond

• Educate, lead, and mentor peers (provide code reviews and technical guidance)

• Estimate work scope to help forecast delivery timelines

About You:

• Ability to self-direct

• Demonstrated ability to turn a brief into a well-designed technical solution

• 6-8 years of professional frontend engineering experience.

• Deep knowledge and opinions around full-stack development in the JavaScript/Typescript ecosystem

• Keeping up on modern full-stack technologies, tools, frameworks, and languages

• Passion for writing clean, maintainable, well-tested code

• Ability to communicate technical decisions and tradeoffs

• Adaptability to changing product needs is needed to help seize business opportunities

• Ability to make and use diagrams as a means of communication

• Solid understanding of TypeScript, Node.js, and React

• Infrastructure knowledge for building low-latency and scalable apps

• Professional communication skills - English B2+

• Experience performing code reviews and mentoring peers

Nice to Have Skills/Experience:

• CLEAN Architecture

• Domain Driven Design

• Functional programming

• Microfrontends

• Monorepo Tooling

• Next.js (SSR/SSG)

• Automated cross-browser testing

• Agile / Scrum process

• Infrastructure & Deployment

• AWS

• Clojure(Script)

• Behavioural analytics reporting

What’s in it For You?

• Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.

• 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.

About Us

Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments. 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.

As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business 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 Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

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