1 day ago
Toronto, CanadaSenior
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain accessible, well-tested React components, design tokens, and front-end tooling aligned with the enterprise design system.
- Implement WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility practices, including semantic HTML, ARIA authoring, keyboard interaction, focus management, and assistive technology support.
- Design 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 to enable adoption.
- Contribute to MCP server capabilities, 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, support delivery teams, and collaborate with designers, architects, and product teams.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience building production front-end applications or shared libraries, ideally in complex enterprise environments.
- Deep hands-on expertise with React, TypeScript, and modern CSS.
- Practical accessibility experience with semantic HTML, ARIA, focus and keyboard management, and assistive technology testing.
- 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, semantic versioning, agile and DevOps principles, test-driven development, and continuous integration.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills for explaining technical vision, trade-offs, and outcomes to engineers and leadership.
- Preferred qualifications include curiosity about AI-assisted development, continuous learning, an entrepreneurial spirit, and comfort working in a rapidly changing environment.
Benefits
- Hybrid working arrangement in Waterloo, Ontario.
- Eligible employees may receive health, dental, mental health, vision, disability, life and AD&D insurance, adoption/surrogacy, wellness, and employee/family assistance benefits.
- Retirement savings plans, including pension and a global share ownership plan with employer matching contributions, plus financial education and counseling resources.
- Paid holidays, vacation, personal and sick days, and statutory leaves in Canada.
- Opportunity to participate in incentive programs tied to business and individual performance.
- Flexible environment supporting learning, career growth, well-being, and inclusion.
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About Manulife
Manulife is a Toronto‑headquartered public financial services company that provides life and health insurance, retirement plans, and wealth and asset management to individuals and institutions. It earns premiums and fee income from insurance, investment, and advisory products delivered across Canada, Asia, and Europe, and operates as John Hancock in the United States. Founded in 1887, the company is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange.