Job Description

New Position: This position is open due to an existing vacancy to support our evolving business needs.
Lead Software Engineer
Are you passionate about creating exceptional user experiences and leading teams to deliver cutting-edge web applications?
We're looking for a UI/UX Frontend Developer Lead to join our dynamic team in Toronto. In this role, you'll guide and mentor talented developers while shaping visually engaging, responsive interfaces that delight users. You'll work with Angular and our proprietary Saffron framework, ensuring pixel-perfect design, accessibility, and best practices across all projects.
As part of our collaborative and innovative culture, you'll have the opportunity to leverage AI-driven tools and techniques to enhance development efficiency and elevate user experience. This position is ideal for someone who thrives in a leadership role, values design excellence, and wants to make a meaningful impact on products used by customers worldwide.
If you're ready to lead a team that values creativity, technical expertise, and continuous improvement, we'd love to hear from you!
About the Role
In this opportunity Lead Software Engineer, you will:
Lead and mentor frontend developers, promoting best practices and high coding standards.
Guide the team in adopting and utilizing AI-powered tools and workflows for:

• Code generation and refactoring (e.g., AI-assisted coding tools)
• Automated testing and bug detection using AI-based test frameworks.
• Design-to-code conversion from tools like Figma using AI accelerators.
• Performance optimization through AI-driven analysis and recommendations.

Design, develop, and deliver scalable, performant web applications using Angular.
Convert UI/UX designs (e.g., Figma) into pixel-perfect, interactive interfaces using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
Build and maintain custom Angular components and leverage internal design systems.
Collaborate with product managers, designers, and backend teams to define and implement features.
About You
You're a fit for the role of Lead Software Engineer if you have the following required qualifications:
7+ years of professional experience in frontend development, with strong expertise in Angular (v9+).
Proficiency in TypeScript, modern JavaScript (ES6+), HTML, and CSS (Sass/Less).
Experience translating UI/UX designs into high-fidelity, responsive interfaces.
Strong understanding of Object-Oriented Design and Programming principles.
Hands-on experience with Git, Node.js, and npm/yarn.
Knowledge of web accessibility standards and best practices.
Demonstrated experience in using AI tools or frameworks to improve development workflows or enhance UI/UX.
Excellent communication and leadership skills for guiding and mentoring team members.
Additional preferred qualifications include:
Familiarity with Micro Frontend architectures.
Experience with state management libraries (e.g., NgRx).
Knowledge of testing frameworks (Karma, Jasmine, Jest, Cypress).
Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and automated deployments.
Understanding of performance optimization techniques.
Experience integrating with RESTful APIs.
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What's in it For You?
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.
Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.
Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow's challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.
Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.
Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.
Making a Real-World Impact: We are one of the few companies globally 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.
Our use of AI within the recruitment process Thomson Reuters utilizes Artificial Intelligence (AI) to support parts of our global recruitment process. Unless you opt-out, our AI system will assess the information provided by you and compare it to the requirements listed for the role, and present the result to our recruitment personnel for further review. The AI system acts as a supporting tool, but there is always a human making the decision if you will be considered for the role
Thomson Reuters complies with local laws that require upfront disclosure of the expected pay range for a position. The base compensation range varies across locations. For Ontario, Canada, the base compensation range for this role is $125,000 CAD - $175,000 CAD. Base pay is positioned within the range based on several factors including an individual's knowledge, skills and experience with consideration given to internal equity. Base pay is one part of a comprehensive Total Reward program which also includes flexible and supportive benefits and other wellbeing programs. This role may also be eligible for an Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance.
About Us
Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.
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. 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.
As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business 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 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. More information on requesting an accommodation
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