Base Career helps you apply smarter for this job.
Key skills for this role
Toronto, ON, CA
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.
Functional Skills:
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.
Skip the repetitive application forms
Install the Base Career Chrome Extension and autofill job applications across major job boards with your profile.
Trusted by over 500,000 job seekers on Base Career
More from this employer
Roanoke, USA
Introduction: The Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company - Global Inspection and Engineering Services (GIES) is an inspection focused engineering group with over 450 engineers, inspectors and auditors loc
Romford, GBR
About the job Job title: Engineer Surveyor Category 3 Location: London & Greater London (inside M25) Total reward package: £53,376.00 per annum plus London weighting depending on location Salary: £38,500 per annum, plus
Bloomington, USA
Drive the future of AI‐powered decision‐making by leading sophisticated machine learning and GenAI solutions that shape strategy and outcomes. American Modern Insurance Group, Inc., a Munich Re company, is a widely recog
Sheffield, GBR
About the job Job title: Engineer Surveyor Category 3 Location: South Yorkshire Total reward package: £53,376.00 per annum Salary: £38,500 per annum Working hours: 40 hours per week (inclusive of travel time), additional
Montréal, CAN
Montréal, CAN
Toronto, CAN
Toronto, CAN
Roanoke, USA
Romford, GBR
Bloomington, USA
Sheffield, GBR
Montréal, CAN
Montréal, CAN
Toronto, CAN
Toronto, CAN
Strong collaboration and communication skills, with a demonstrated ability to build trusted partnerships across engineering, product, and business teams.
Qualifications:
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.
Preferred Technologies:
TypeScript, React, Next.js
Node.js, GraphQL, REST APIs
Azure or AWS
Docker, Kubernetes
PostgreSQL, Redis
Observability tools such as Datadog, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry
Modern testing frameworks (Playwright, Cypress, Jest, Vitest)
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.
We are pleased to offer our employees great benefits and resources to support their mental, physical and financial wellbeing. These include:
An engaging and collaborative environment that promotes continuous learning and development
A hybrid work environment that combines weekly in-office and remote days
A 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
This role is located in our Montreal office on 1000, rue De La Gauchetière , and we operate in a hybrid work model.
We do not use AI in our recruitment process - applications are reviewed by our team to ensure a fair and personalized experience.
Please note that only candidates who are selected for interview will be contacted directly. We thank all candidates for their interest.
The base salary range anticipated for this position is $171,000-198,000, plus an opportunity for an annual company bonus based upon a percentage of eligible pay.
The salary estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for candidates hired in this position. Factors that may be used to determine your actual salary include your specific skills, how many years of experience you have and comparison to other employees already in this role.
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.
Job Segment: Cloud, Testing, Technology
Global provider of reinsurance, primary insurance, and risk solutions.
Visit company websiteJobs and hiring trendsCAD 171000-198000 yearly / year
Full-time
Senior · 8+ years experience
Hybrid
Apply faster on company sites with our extension.