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 continu