Sr. Front End Engineer

FindLaw is the leading provider of business development solutions for law firms and home to the largest online destination for people with legal needs (www.findlaw.com). Our integrated marketing solutions help law firms grow their practice through strategic digital marketing approaches that drive results. As part of Thomson Reuters, we have access to resources rich in experience and the latest market trends, as well as industry standard tools and technologies to enable our success.

As a Lead Front End Engineer, you are a critical member of an Agile team responsible for developing solutions that help our customers create a more effective digital presence.  You will contribute to and drive design and development on our public-facing web properties, while collaborating closely with business partners and stakeholders (e.g. Product Manager, Data Services, Developers, QA, Architects) throughout the Agile process.

About the role:

In this opportunity as SR. Front End Engineer, you will:

• Provide thought leadership and industry best practices in support of our public-facing online applications.

• Produce high-quality, secure code that is unit tested, code reviewed and checked in regularly for continuous integration.

• Partner in all phases of Agile delivery, such as project chartering, story mapping, and sprint planning.

• Be accountable for application integrity by promoting software development best practices that support efficient coding, maintenance, release deployment, and reduce the likelihood of defects making their way into the production environment.

• Act as a consultant and knowledge base for our business and technology stakeholders.

• Bring a curious mindset, striving to learn something new every day, while focusing on delivering innovative solutions for our customers.

About you:

You're a fit for the role of Lead Front End Engineer if your background includes:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Management Information Sciences, Mathematics, Engineering, Business, or similar area of functional responsibility preferred.

• 7+ years relevant software development experience focused on online applications.

• Design and development experience working with high-traffic, public-facing online properties.

• Deep experience implementing and supporting SEO strategies.

• Demonstrated ability to craft semantic HTML and CSS to meet mobile design and cross-browser requirements.

• Experience with JavaScript frameworks and related development and deployment tools (React, Node, etc.).

• Web application full-stack development experience with technologies such as HTML5, CSS, SASS, JavaScript, Foundation JS. Experience with back end language layout integration (like PHP and Java) a plus.

• Strong analytical and debugging skills, and familiarity with common debugging tools (Chrome Dev Tools, etc.).

• Experience with both back-end and front-end performance analysis including familiarity with related tools such as Adobe Analytics, Google Analytics, Adobe Launch, Google Tag Manager.

• Experience implementing AWS services (e.g. S3, EC2, SQS, etc.) is a plus.

• Experience with Cloudflare Workers a plus.

• Experience designing solutions to maximize CDN performance.

• Experience with cross-browser functional testing as well as an awareness of common web development pitfalls and solutions.

• Familiarity with A/B testing and related tools (e.g., Adobe Target, Optimost)

• Familiarity with SQL and performing data analysis with relational and XML databases. 

• Demonstrated ability to build effective cross-functional relationships.

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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:

• 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

• 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, 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.

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