Staff Engineer - Frontend

Munich Re Careers•Toronto, ON

1d•$171,000 - $198,000•Hybrid

About The Position

This role involves leading the architecture, design, and development of modern full-stack applications, with a primary focus on frontend engineering using TypeScript, React, and cloud-native technologies. The position requires defining and owning shared frontend platform capabilities, providing technical leadership through reviews and mentoring, and championing frontend engineering best practices. The engineer will partner closely with product, data science, platform engineering, and business stakeholders to translate strategic objectives into scalable technical solutions and stay current with emerging technologies.

Requirements

8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant experience designing, building, and scaling modern web applications
Expert-level proficiency in TypeScript, JavaScript, React, and modern frontend frameworks, tooling, and development practices.
Understanding of CI/CD, monitoring, observability, performance optimization, operational excellence, and application reliability.
Strong collaboration and communication skills, with a demonstrated ability to build trusted partnerships across engineering, product, and business teams.
Experience building, scaling, and maintaining highly interactive applications.
Proven success establishing frontend platform standards across multiple applications and teams, including design systems, shared authentication frameworks, generated API clients, and observability standards.
Strong understanding of web application architecture and connectivity patterns, including CORS, API gateways, reverse proxies, backend-for-frontend (BFF) architectures, runtime configuration management, session security, and SPA authentication flows.
Experience defining and enforcing frontend performance standards.
Familiarity with feature flagging, experimentation, and progressive delivery practices that support safe, incremental releases.

Nice To Haves

Experience integrating AI/ML capabilities into web applications is highly desirable.
Experience building applications with visual workflow, or diagramming using technologies such as React Flow (xyflow), D3, or similar frameworks is highly desirable.

Responsibilities

Lead the architecture, design, and development of modern full-stack applications, with a primary focus on frontend engineering using TypeScript, React, and cloud-native technologies.
Lead the design evolution of a scalable visual rule-authoring platform, and an underwriting workbench used for life insurance underwriting.
Define and own shared frontend platform capabilities used across multiple applications, including design systems, component libraries, authentication and session management, multi-tenancy frameworks, state management patterns, and data-access standards.
Provide technical leadership through architecture reviews, code reviews, mentoring, and hands-on development across the application stack.
Champion frontend engineering best practices, including performance optimization, testing, observability, and maintainable architecture.
Partner closely with product, data science, platform engineering, and business stakeholders to translate strategic objectives into scalable technical solutions.
Stay current with emerging technologies and industry best practices in frontend engineering, cloud-native development, and AI-enabled applications.

Benefits

Two options for your health insurance plan (PPO or High Deductible).
Prescription drug coverage (included in your health insurance plan).
Vision and dental insurance plans.
Additional insurance coverages provided at no cost to you, such as basic life insurance equal to 1x annual salary and AD&D coverage that is equal to 1x annual salary.
Short and Long-Term Disability coverage.
Supplemental Life and AD&D plans that you can purchase for yourself and dependents (includes Spouse/domestic partner and children).
Voluntary Benefit plans that supplement your health and life insurance plans (Accident, Critical Illness and Hospital Indemnity).
A robust 401k plan with up to a 6% employer match.
Paid time off that begins with 24 days each year, with more days added when you celebrate milestone service anniversaries.
Eligibility to receive a yearly bonus as a Munich Re employee.
A variety of health and wellness programs provided at no cost, including a gym fitness reimbursement.
Paid time off for eligible family care needs.
Tuition assistance and educational achievement bonuses.
A corporate matching gifts program that further enhances your charitable donation.
Paid time off to volunteer in your community.