Sr. UX Engineer - Front End

Senior UX Engineer, Design System

Job Description

Are you a curious, smart, self-driven UX professional who loves the challenge of turning complex problems and constraints into elegant solutions that meet a customer's needs? Come and join us as we work to transform Thomson Reuters into a truly Digital company. We aren't just changing the way customers engage with us, we are transforming and re-imagining our business, by focusing on the individual user.

Our work focuses on a large portfolio of transformational efforts as we work together to deliver on the promise of making it easy to do business with Thomson Reuters. Our customers range from small entrepreneurs to large corporations and government clients across the globe. They are under a lot of pressure to ensure the products and services they purchase meet their business needs and are confident in knowing how to use them.

As a Sr. UX Engineer you'll work closely with designers, software engineers, content strategists, accessibility specialists, and researchers to develop, grow, and maintain our global design system. Come join a group of passionate design professionals, who are focused on growing and scaling an organization-wide world-class platform.

About the Role

As a Sr. UX Engineer, you will:

• Create and build - Leverage your deep experience with responsive UI design methodologies and user-centered, iterative design processes. Create high-fidelity prototypes for UX research testing using industry-leading tools. Translate complex design languages into reusable code libraries. Develop scalable and accessible components that adhere to our brand and animation standards. Document your work comprehensively and communicate effectively with development teams.
• Be part of a collaborative team: Work closely with the UX Designers, Accessibility Specialists, Content Strategists, and UX Researchers in a collaborative team-oriented environment to lead the project from a UX development perspective, and create new components and tools to be used across our entire organization. Advocate for the user's needs while developing features that align to the needs of the user.
• Be an Effective Communicator: Share ideas, participate in peer-reviews, and exhibit strong listening skills. You justify and articulate development decisions during code reviews. You lead brainstorming sessions with product teams, and can share outcomes using your excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Be Curious & Innovative: Continuously update yourself with next generation user experiences, technology, and contribute to process development practices. Turn user research and usability feedback into easy-to-use solutions. Gather, analyze, and synthesize UX needs for complex product and user requirements.

About You

You're a fit for this role if you have:

Basic qualifications:

• 7+ years of experience developing large-scale, complex frontend web applications
• Bachelor's degree preferred; Associate's degree in a technology-related field and/or experience may be considered
• Familiarity with working in Agile development environment
• Strong knowledge of web standards and accessibility (W3C and WCAG 2.1 AA), interaction design and user-centered design principles
• Portfolio of work
• Knowledge of web standards, accessibility, CSS-driven layouts and manipulating the DOM
• Strong proficiency in React and Angular frameworks
• Ability to create production-quality CSS, SASS, HTML, and JavaScript for large, complex web applications with support for mobile and tablet devices
• Implement browser-independent designs and cross-browser issues (IE, Firefox, Safari etc) on all platforms
• Design experience with a good eye for aesthetics and detail

Preferred qualifications:

• Extensive knowledge of modern JavaScript (ES6+), HTML5, and CSS3/SASS
• Developing for mobile and tablet devices
• Understanding of Web Components, React, and Angular frameworks
• Experience with Stencil.js
• Ability to follow technical specifications and production processes
• Ability to create and update design tokens
• Ability to adjust graphics and create / optimize graphics assets as needed to complete designs
• Ability to work with source/version control software
• Aptitude to understand and build SEO/semantic solutions
• Understands iconography and SVG graphics and performance
• Ability to implement animation

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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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