Lead Developer (JavaScript)

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 Web Developer, 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 front-end design and development on our public-facing web properties, while collaborating closely with business partners and stakeholders (e.g. Product Manager, Project Manager, Business Analyst, QA, Architects) throughout the Agile process.

Primary responsibility will be front-end work for projects within our Super Lawyers, LawInfo and Abogado Portal and Directory portfolio.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide thought leadership for our public-facing web properties and applications.
• Produce high-quality, secure software 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 organization.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Management Information Sciences, Mathematics, Engineering, Business, or area of functional responsibility preferred.
• 5+ years relevant software development experience focused on public-facing web properties.

Skillset:

• Strong experience with SCSS and CSS frameworks. Must be able to contribute immediately to current projects.
• Strong experience with native/ES6+ JavaScript code. Not a framework like jQuery.
• Experience with task runners (Gulp, Grunt, etc.).
• Passion for learning new technologies and applying design patterns
• Experience with accessibility requirements.
• Strong analytical and debugging skills, and familiarity with common debugging tools (Chrome Dev Tools, etc.).
• Demonstrated ability to craft semantic HTML and CSS to meet responsive design and cross-browser requirements.
• Familiarity with cross-browser functional testing as well as an awareness of common web development pitfalls and solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to build effective cross-functional relationships.

Desired skills:

• Experience with PHP7/8, MySQL building web applications.
• Experience with Wordpress, building custom plug-ins. Extending Gutenberg / Blocks.
• Experience with AWS technologies, EC2, S3, SQS, Lambda, SES, including CI/CD.
• Experience with Javascript unit testing (Mocha, Jest, etc)
• Experience with a Javascript-based framework (React, Angular, Vue)

Tech: Bootstrap, Grunt/Gulp, JavaScript, npm, GitHub, PHP, MySQL]

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: Currently, as part of our COVID-19 response, our employees are working remotely and following local COVID-19 bylaws and guidelines with the majority of our offices planning to remain remote throughout 2021. Upon return, we will embrace a hybrid work environment consisting of in-office and remote work.
• Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.
• Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; company-wide Mental Health Day Off; Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
• Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters cafe networking.
• Social Impact: Eight employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact.

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COVID-19 Vaccination Status Information Requirement (US employees only):

Thomson Reuters is committed to ensuring the continued safety of our employees in regards to Covid-19. While vaccination is not required for consideration or employment at this time, to inform our site planning and policies, we require all Thomson Reuters employees to verify their vaccination status upon starting with the Company.

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 25,000 employees across more than 75 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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