We are growing, with the mandate to power world-class customer and employee experience through software and engineering skills.

The customer is at the focus of everything we do, and tens of thousands of end users rely on our products daily. Front-End Foundations is the enablement team behind our internal React component library that implements Manulife's design system. It powers 100+ active digital properties across our Canadian and US segments, is endorsed at the enterprise architecture level as our standard for React development and has an active engineering community of over 1,000 people. We solve common front-end problems once, then make those solutions available to every product team.

We are seeking a self-motivated Front-End Engineer to help build the components, tooling, documentation, and AI capabilities that thousands of Manulife engineers depend on daily. This is a product engineering role: the library is the product, and developers are the customers.

Design, build, and maintain accessible, well-tested React components, design tokens, and tooling that align to and support the enterprise design system.

js documentation platform, live code sandbox, examples, and Figma Code Connect integration so teams can learn, adopt, and stay current with minimal friction.

Advance AI-native tooling:



Contribute to our MCP server, Copilot agent skills, LLM-friendly documentation endpoints, and generative UI guardrails so AI agents produce accessible, on-brand interfaces that stay inside our design system rather than around it.

Think beyond React: Help evolve a shared headless component core so component logic is built once and shipped across web, mobile, and future platforms.

Support the community: Our support channel is one of the largest active engineering communities in the company.

Partner across disciplines in an agile delivery model to identify pain points and accelerate delivery of recent business value.

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

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📌 Frontend Developer (Engineering) (Waterloo)
🏢 Manulife
📍 Waterloo