Munich Re

Staff Engineer - Frontend

Munich Re$171K — $198K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience with a focus on modern web applications.
  • Expertise in TypeScript, JavaScript, React, and modern frontend frameworks.
  • Knowledge of CI/CD and best practices for application reliability.
  • Experience integrating AI/ML into web applications is a plus.
  • Familiarity with visual workflow technologies like React Flow or D3 is desirable.

Responsibilities

  • Lead architecture, design, and development of full-stack applications, emphasizing frontend with TypeScript and React.
  • Oversee the evolution of a scalable visual rule-authoring platform for life insurance underwriting.
  • Define shared frontend capabilities for multiple applications, including design systems and session management.
  • Provide technical leadership through architecture reviews, mentoring, and hands-on development.
  • Promote frontend best practices in performance, testing, and maintainability.
  • Collaborate with product, data science, and business stakeholders to align technical solutions with strategic objectives.
  • Stay updated on emerging technologies in frontend engineering and AI-enabled applications.

Benefits

  • Engaging and collaborative environment promoting continuous learning.
  • Hybrid work model with both in-office and remote days.
  • Comprehensive health and dental benefits starting on day one.
  • Flexible spending accounts for health and wellness.
  • Immediate participation in DC Pension Plan with employer contributions.
  • Generous time-off policy including personal days and company holidays.
  • Learning resources with unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning.
  • Top-up program for maternity, parental, and adoption leave.
Full Job Description
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, Kubernetes
  • PostgreSQL, Redis
  • Observability tools such as Datadog, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry
  • Modern testing frameworks (Playwright, Cypress, Jest, Vitest)


What Can We Offer You?

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.

About Munich Re

Munich Re is a leading global provider of reinsurance, primary insurance and insurance-related risk solutions. The company is headquartered in Munich, Germany. Munich Re operates in all lines of insurance and has a presence in all major markets worldwide. Munich Re's business model is based on the combination of primary insurance and reinsurance under one roof. The company has three business segments: reinsurance, primary insurance, and Munich Health. Munich Re's global premium income amounted to ?54.5 billion in 2020.
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