Front End Technical Lead

Thomson Reuters; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Front End Technical Lead, where you'll guide a dynamic Scrum team in developing innovative web applications. This role is perfect for someone passionate about mentoring and fostering collaboration while driving technical strategy and maintaining high engineering standards. You'll work with cutting-edge technologies like TypeScript, React, and AWS, ensuring scalable solutions that align with business goals. Enjoy a culture that values diversity, inclusion, and personal growth, with comprehensive benefits that support your wellbeing and professional development. If you're ready to tackle interesting challenges and make a significant impact, we want to hear from you!

Benefits

Flexible vacation

Mental Health Days Off

Work from another location

Headspace app subscription

Tuition reimbursement

Employee incentive programs

LinkedIn Learning access

Networking opportunities

Paid volunteer days

Diversity and inclusion initiatives

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading a software engineering team.
• Strong communication skills to bridge technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum processes.

Responsibilities

• Ensure technical solutions meet business needs and manage risks.
• Mentor team members and foster a positive engineering culture.
• Guide the team in creating compelling user experiences.

Skills

Leadership

Communication Skills

Agile/Scrum

Technical Guidance

Problem Solving

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

TypeScript

React

Next.JS

Clojure(Script)

Python

Docker

AWS

Job description

About Us
The Reuters Connect Platform team builds and maintains our flagship digital marketplace, Reuters Connect, where customers discover and license multimedia content from Reuters and partners, similar to Getty Images or Shutterstock but focused on news. Our team, part of Reuters News Agency engineering, develops critical applications and services for news multimedia content delivery (text, graphics, photos, audio, video) via scalable content solutions. We are a close-knit team using Agile, Scrum, Domain Driven Design, and CLEAN Architecture with technologies like TypeScript, React, Next.JS, Clojure(Script), Python, Docker, and AWS.

We are seeking an experienced Front End Technical Lead to guide a Scrum team in developing web-based applications. You will serve as a technical expert and team leader, bridging business objectives with technical implementation. Your role includes defining and delivering high-impact, scalable solutions, mentoring team members, and fostering a positive engineering culture. You will work with cross-functional peers to ensure solutions align with business goals and delivery timelines, while managing risks and ensuring quality standards are met.

About The Role

As our Front End Technical Lead, you will:

• Ensure technical solutions meet business needs, remove blockers, manage risks, and communicate effectively with stakeholders.
• Partner with cross functional peers to turn ideas into scoped, cohesive, well-defined, well-architected solutions with predictable delivery timelines.
• Lead technical strategy, maintain high engineering standards, and ensure system scalability and health.
• Mentor and build a high-performing team, fostering growth and collaboration.
• Guide the team in creating compelling user experiences and scalable web solutions.
• Provide technical guidance and conduct code reviews.
• Communicate technology strategy to stakeholders and lead Scrum ceremonies.
• Drive technical innovation and define front end architecture.
• Align technical solutions with business goals and ensure cohesive delivery.
• Manage and prioritize technical debt improvements and respond to critical issues.

About You:

To be our Front End Technical Lead you will likely have:

• Proven experience leading a software engineering team and providing technical guidance.
• Strong communication skills to bridge technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum processes and ability to operate in ambiguity.
• Passion for learning and professional growth.

Nice to Have

• Full stack development, Domain Driven Design, Functional programming, Automated testing, Behavioral analytics, Microfrontends, Monorepos, Clojure(Script), GraphQL.

If you’re a high performing technical leader, with high standards, who wants to work on an ambitious team that solves interesting technical problems and has a healthy respect for personal wellbeing, we’d love for you to apply to join our team.

What's in it For You?

You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through:

Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; work from another location for up to a total of 8 weeks in a year, 4 of those weeks can be out of the country and the remaining in the country, Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.

Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters café networking.

Social Impact: Ten employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact.

Purpose Driven Work: We have a superpower that we’ve never talked about with as much pride as we should – we are one of the only companies on the planet 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.

Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we’ve been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world’s most global news services – Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.

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 that celebrate diversity and inclusion. 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.

Accessibility

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our 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/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.