Front-End Tech Lead — Architect, Mentor, AI-Driven Delivery

Thomson Reuters; City of Westminster; Remote; GBP 89,000 - 164,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

Mental health days

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Thomson Reuters is seeking a senior front-end leader to set architectural direction for Reuters’ content platform. You will unblock the team on complex problems and drive a shift-left quality culture in partnership with Quality Engineering.

With Thomson Reuters, you’ll influence engineering strategy across product, design, and cross-functional teams while leading a high-performing front-end organization that serves billions of users daily.

Qualifications

• 10+ years building scalable front-end applications with leadership experience.
• Proven ability to drive architectural decisions and improve engineering standards.
• Experience partnering with Quality Engineering on shift-left testing.

Responsibilities

• Own architectural decisions for the front-end platform and communicate tradeoffs.
• Lead design reviews for new features and drive engineering standards.
• Mentor engineers and unblock the team on complex problems.
• Embed automated testing earlier in the lifecycle and CI/CD.
• Build automated quality gates and resolve production issues.
• Evaluate AI-assisted development tools to boost velocity.

Skills

TypeScript/JavaScript

React

HTML5/CSS3

RESTful APIs

AWS

Git/CI/CD

Docker

Jest/RTL/Playwright

Performance

Security best practices

Tools

Next.js

GraphQL

Microfrontends

AngularJS

Tailwind

Java Spring Boot

TypeScript AWS Lambda

MongoDB

Amazon Aurora

AWS services

Job description

Thomson Reuters is seeking a senior front-end leader to set architectural direction for Reuters’ content platform. You will unblock the team on complex problems and drive a shift-left quality culture in partnership with Quality Engineering.

With Thomson Reuters, you’ll influence engineering strategy across product, design, and cross-functional teams while leading a high-performing front-end organization that serves billions of users daily.