Front-End Engineer
Key Skills for This Role
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Required Qualifications:
- 5 or more years building production front-end applications or shared libraries, ideally in complex enterprise environments
- Deep hands-on expertise in React and TypeScript, plus modern CSS
- Practical accessibility experience: 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, with genuine empathy for developer experience
- Testing discipline across unit, integration, visual regression, and automated accessibility checks
- Familiarity with monorepos, CI/CD, release automation, and semantic versioning
- movement to change the engineering culture of an enterprise
- Strong verbal and written communication, with the ability to articulate technical vision, trade-offs, and outcomes to both engineers and leadership
- Familiarity with agile and DevOps principles, test-driven development, continuous integration, and other software engineering best practices
Preferred Qualifications:
- A capacity for constant learning from both success and failure, remaining open to change and continuous improvement
- An entrepreneurial spirit and comfort working within a rapidly changing environment; you love the challenge of working on a small team and being part of a larger
- Curiosity about AI-assisted development and how agents consume design systems and structured component knowledge
- When you join our team:
- We’ll empower you to learn and grow the career you want.
- We’ll recognize and support you in a flexible environment where well-being and inclusion are more than just words.
- As part of our global team, we’ll support you in shaping the future you want to see.
- #LI-Hybrid
- The role being advertised is an existing vacancy.
About Manulife and John Hancock
Manulife Financial Corporation is a leading international financial services provider, helping people make their decisions easier and lives better. To learn more about us, visit https://www.manulife.com/en/about/our-story.html.
Manulife is an Equal Opportunity Employer
At Manulife/John Hancock, we embrace our diversity. We strive to attract, develop and retain a workforce that is as diverse as the customers we serve and to foster an inclusive work environment that embraces the strength of cultures and individuals. We are committed to fair recruitment, retention, advancement and compensation, and we administer all of our practices and programs without discrimination on the basis of race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, religion or religious beliefs, creed, sex (including pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions), sexual orientation, genetic characteristics, veteran status, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, family status, disability, or any other ground protected by applicable law.
It is our priority to remove barriers to provide equal access to employment. A Human Resources representative will work with applicants who request a reasonable accommodation during the application process. All information shared during the accommodation request process will be stored and used in a manner that is consistent with applicable laws and Manulife/John Hancock policies. To request a reasonable accommodation in the application process, contact [email protected].
Referenced Salary Location
Waterloo, Ontario
Working Arrangement
Hybrid
Salary range is expected to be between
$86,100.00 CAD - $136,100.00 CAD
Employees also have the opportunity to participate in incentive programs and earn incentive compensation tied to business and individual performance. The actual salary will vary depending on local market conditions, geography and relevant job-related factors such as knowledge, skills, qualifications, experience, and education/training. If you are applying for this role outside of the primary location, please contact [email protected] for the salary range for your location.
Manulife offers eligible employees a wide array of customizable benefits, including health, dental, mental health, vision, short- and long-term disability, life and AD&D insurance coverage, adoption/surrogacy and wellness benefits, and employee/family assistance plans. We also offer eligible employees various retirement savings plans (including pension and a global share ownership plan with employer matching contributions) and financial education and counseling resources. Our generous paid time off program in Canada includes holidays, vacation, personal, and sick days, and we offer the full range of statutory leaves of absence. If you are applying for this role in the U.S., please contact [email protected] for more information about U.S.-specific paid time off provisions.
We use data and analytics technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), and automated processing tools, to analyze and process the information you provide to us or third parties in the application process. For more information, please refer to our personal information collection statement.
About Manulife
International financial services and insurance provider.
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