Location: New York City; 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)
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.
