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About the Role
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. Define and own shared frontend platform capabilities and champion frontend engineering best practices.
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.
Requirements
- 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.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills, with a demonstrated ability to build trusted partnerships across engineering, product, and business teams.
- 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.
- 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.
Skills
- TypeScript
- React
- Next.js
- Node.js
- GraphQL
- REST APIs
- Azure
- AWS
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- Datadog
- Grafana
- OpenTelemetry
- Playwright
- Cypress
- Jest
- Vitest
Location
- Montreal
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
Salary/Compensations
- $171,000-198,000
- annual company bonus
Benefits
- Engaging and collaborative environment that promotes continuous learning and development
- Hybrid work environment that combines weekly in-office and remote days
- Great compensation package including annual company bonus
- Market leading company-paid flexible health and dental benefits, starting on your first day
- Flexible dollars provided by the company to put towards Health Spending Account and/or Wellness Spending Account
- Immediate participation in DC Pension Plan with an automatic employer contribution, plus optional company match
- Generous time off including vacation, personal days, unplanned time, Statutory Holidays and company-wide early closure half-days
- Learning and development programs and resources, including unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning, Education Assistance Program and reimbursement for professional fees
- Maternity, Parental & Adoption Leave top-up program
- Employee Referral Program, Recognition & Rewards Platform
About the Company
- Together, we engage with everything we have and are, to help humankind act braver and better.
- As the world’s leading reinsurance company with more than 40,000 employees in over 50 locations around the globe, Munich Re introduces a paradigm shift in the way you think about insurance. By turning uncertainty into manageable risk, we enable fundamental change.
- We recognize Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging as a key priority with a culture that welcomes different thoughts and opinions.
- We dare to think big and are continuously innovating on behalf of our clients.
- Our data, our technology, and our teams place us in a unique position to drive transformative change in the life insurance industry.
- We invest strategically in our world class talent, offering our employees a work experience that promotes professional development, innovation, and rewards high performance.
Equal Opportunity
- We do not use AI in our recruitment process - applications are reviewed by our team to ensure a fair and personalized experience.
- Munich Re is committed to providing a work environment that is inclusive and free of employment barriers and discrimination. Accommodations will be made for qualified applicants with a disability throughout the recruitment process. If you receive a request for an interview and you have a disability which will require an accommodation to support your participation, please contact AskHRNorthAmerica@munichre.com as soon as practical so that suitable accommodations can be arranged.