About the role

Front-End Engineer building Manulife’s shared React design-system libraries, accessibility tooling, and AI capabilities. Enabling thousands of engineers across financial-services digital properties.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain accessible, well-tested React components, design tokens, and tooling aligned with the enterprise design system
Implement WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility, ARIA authoring practices, keyboard interaction, and assistive technology support
Shape durable component APIs with backwards compatibility, semantic versioning, deprecation paths, and migration guidance
Extend the Next.js documentation platform, live code sandbox, examples, and Figma Code Connect integration
Contribute to MCP server, Copilot agent skills, LLM-friendly documentation endpoints, and generative UI guardrails
Help evolve a shared headless component core for web, mobile, and future platforms
Triage issues, review external contributions, and unblock delivery teams
Collaborate with designers, architects, and product teams in an agile delivery model
Support the internal React component library used across Manulife's Canadian and US segments

5 or more years building production front-end applications or shared libraries, ideally in complex enterprise environments
Deep hands-on expertise in React, TypeScript, and modern CSS
Practical accessibility experience, including semantic HTML, ARIA, focus and keyboard management, and testing with assistive technology
Experience building reusable libraries, design systems, or shared platforms consumed by other engineers
Testing experience across unit, integration, visual regression, and automated accessibility checks
Familiarity with monorepos, CI/CD, release automation, and semantic versioning
Strong verbal and written communication skills
Familiarity with agile and DevOps principles, test-driven development, continuous integration, and software engineering best practices

Flexible environment supporting learning, career growth, well-being, and inclusion
Health, dental, mental health, and vision benefits
Short- and long-term disability insurance
Life and AD&D insurance coverage
Adoption/surrogacy benefits
Wellness benefits
Employee/family assistance plans
Retirement savings plans, including pension
Global share ownership plan with employer matching contributions
Financial education and counseling resources
Paid holidays, vacation, personal, and sick days
Statutory leaves of absence
Incentive programs and incentive compensation tied to business and individual performance