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Do you love creating data-driven interfaces and designing ways to explore and experience data? Thomson Reuters Labs is seeking a Full Stack Developer (Data Experience) to join our team.
Thomson Reuters is the Answer Company™. We provide authoritative content, advanced technologies and human expertise to help our customers find trusted answers. We enable professionals in the financial and risk to make the decisions that matter most, all powered by the world's most trusted news organization. Thomson Reuters Labs partners with internal teams, customers and third parties, such as start-ups and academics, on new data-driven innovations.
Our growing team in Singapore, London, New York, San Francisco and Cape Town consists of data scientists and designers from a variety of backgrounds: finance, business, science and applied research. We create proofs of concept from hypotheses for customer-facing problems aligned with Thomson Reuters’ growth strategy. Using data science, statistical analytics and visualization, we work with domain experts to rapidly prototype full stack applications.
We are currently seeking a motivated Full Stack Developer (Data Experience) with a history of building data-driven interfaces that drive transformation as a member of Thomson Reuters Labs. In this role, you will have significant and direct impact on our company in helping to create new information products which customers will use.
You will work closely with designers, data scientists and stakeholders to innovate and code custom applications, data visualizations and interfaces. Incorporating UX and Design Thinking principles with agile methodology, you will support the design side of the Labs and produce prototypes we can validate with customers.
We are looking for an adaptable learner with a voracious curiosity and a continuous evolution of skills; someone who regularly gets into subjects over their head; who is comfortable with ambiguity and can creatively redirect when reaching dead ends.
Key Responsibilities
- Generate innovative concepts to link end-users’ needs with data science solutions
- Create functional, useful and intuitive application prototypes for customers and partners
- Create interactive data visualizations
- Collaborate with data scientists and designers to evaluate projects, design APIs & code interfaces
- Use, evolve and promote best practices for rapid front-end and back-end development
- Participate in internal and external development groups and present to the communities on best practices, emerging stacks etc.
- Evaluate emerging tools, frameworks and languages
Qualifications
- 3+ years experience with and fluency in the following:
- HTML5, Javascript, CSS3
- Angular.js, React.js or similar application framework
- Full Stack development (e.g., REST APIs, GraphQL, Node.js, Express or similar)
- Collaboration and version control using Git
- Experience working with and set up in AWS, GCP, MS Azure etc.
- Experience with Docker
- User Interface design based on UX research
- Fundamentals of design, layout and typography
- Fundamentals of data analysis and visualization
- Experience with relational, NoSQL, or Graph databases.
Desirable Skills
- UX and wireframing
- D3.js or similar data visualization framework
- Design or fine art background
- Data wrangling and analysis in Python or R and working with APIs
- Experience discovering and mining open data sets
- Responsive design and design for touch screen interaction
- Design tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Sketch, etc.
- Cross-browser, cross-device QA and debugging.
- Familiarity with Unix, Shell, Command Line
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At Thomson Reuters, we believe what we do matters. We are passionate about our work, inspired by the impact it has on our business and our customers. As a team, we believe in winning as one - collaborating to reach shared goals, and developing through challenging and meaningful experiences. With more than 45,000 employees in more than 100 countries, we work flexibly across boundaries and realize innovations that help shape industries around the world. Making this happen is a dynamic, evolving process, and we count on each employee to be a catalyst in driving our performance - and their own.
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 country or local law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.
Intrigued by a challenge as large and fascinating as the world itself? Come join us.