Sr. UX Engineer - Front End

Sr. UX Engineer - Front End

Are you passionate about the chance to bring your experience to a world-class company that is market-leading or both content and technology? If yes, we’re looking for you.

Join our team! As a Senior UX Engineer, you will play a key role in transforming our digital products and services, leveraging your expertise in user-centered design, front-end development, and AI-driven tools to create seamless and intuitive user experiences. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop, grow, and maintain our global design system, utilizing cutting-edge technologies and AI-powered tools to drive design and development efficiency.

About the Role

In this opportunity as a Sr. UX Engineer - Front End, you will

• Design, write, and maintain high-quality, semantic HTML, CSS, and SCSS code, ensuring accessibility, responsiveness, and scalability across various devices and browsers.
• Develop scalable, accessible, and responsive UI components, leveraging AI-driven tools such as GitHub Copilot, AI-LLMs, agentic AI and prompt building to streamline design and development processes.
• Consult and collaborate with designers, software engineers, content strategists, accessibility specialists, UX researchers and project leaders to co-create innovative solutions and integrate AI-powered design tools and technologies into our products, ensuring a cohesive and user-centered experience.
• Create high-fidelity prototypes for UX research testing, utilizing industry-leading tools and AI-driven design platforms.
• Translate complex design languages into reusable code libraries, leveraging AI-powered code generation and review tools.
• Develop and maintain scalable and accessible layouts that adhere to our brand and animation standards, utilizing AI-driven design systems and tools.
• Communicate effectively with development teams, justifying and articulating development decisions during code reviews, and leading brainstorming sessions with product teams.

About You

You’re a fit for the role ofSr. UX Engineer - Front End, if your background includes

• 5+ years of experience developing large-scale, complex front-end web applications, with a strong portfolio of work demonstrating expertise in user-centered design and front-end development.
• Bachelor's degree in a technology-related field, or equivalent experience.
• Strong knowledge of web standards and accessibility (W3C and WCAG 2.1 AA), interaction design, and user-centered design principles.
• Proficiency in Web Components, React, and Angular frameworks, with experience in AI-driven design and development tools such as GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, and prompt building.
• Strong proficiency in Web standards, accessibility, CSS-driven layouts, and manipulating the DOM, with experience in AI-powered design systems and tools.
• Ability to create production-quality CSS, SASS, HTML, and JavaScript for large, complex web applications, with support for mobile and tablet devices.
• Experience with Agile development environments, version control software, and design tokens.
• Extensive knowledge of modern JavaScript (ES6+), HTML5, and CSS3/SASS, with experience in AI-driven design and development tools.
• Experience developing for mobile and tablet devices, with a strong understanding of responsive design and accessibility principles.
• Ability to follow technical specifications and production processes, with experience in AI-powered design systems and tools.
• Ability to create and update design tokens, with experience in AI-driven design and development tools.
• Ability to adjust graphics and create/optimize graphics assets as needed to complete designs, with experience in AI-powered design tools.
• Aptitude to understand and build SEO/semantic solutions, with experience in AI-driven design and development tools.
• Understanding of iconography and SVG graphics, with experience in AI-powered design systems and tools.
• Ability to implement animation, with experience in AI-driven design and development tools.

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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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