Staff Engineer - Frontend

Location: New York City or Toronto Canada; must be able to work a hybrid schedule.

Sponsorship: This position does not offer sponsorship for employment-based visas, including but not limited to OPT, CPT, H-1B, or similar statuses. Employment is contingent upon your ability to provide and maintain valid work authorization in the United States without the need for sponsorship now or in the future.

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.
• 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, K8s
• PostgreSQL, Redis
• Observability tools such as Datadog, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry
• Modern testing frameworks (Playwright, Cypress, Jest, Vitest)

About Munich Re

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.

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.

What Can We Offer You?

We are proud to offer our employees, their domestic partners, and their children, a wide range of insurance 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).

In addition to the above insurance offerings, our employees also enjoy:

• 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.

Please note that only candidates who are selected for interview will be contacted directly. We thank all candidates for their interest.

For Toronto applicants:

Our base salary range for this role is between $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 internal equity.

This role is located in our Toronto office on 390 Bay St, and we operate in a hybrid work model. This job posting is for an existing vacancy.

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.

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 AODARequestHR@munichre.ca as soon as practical so that suitable accommodations can be arranged.

At Munich Re US, we see Diversity and Inclusion as a solution to the challenges and opportunities all around us. Our goal is to foster an inclusive culture and build a workforce that reflects the customers we serve and the communities in which we live and work. We strive to provide a workplace where all of our colleagues feel respected, valued and empowered to achieve their very best every day. We recruit and develop talent with a focus on providing our customers the most innovative products and services. We are an equal opportunity employer. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.