Advance accessible React components and design-system tooling for Manulife’s Front-End Foundations team, with WCAG 2.2 AA guiding shared engineering solutions. Support products used by tens of thousands of end users.
This Front-End Engineer role focuses on accessibility, reusable libraries, and developer experience. You will help teams inherit compliance through ARIA practices, keyboard interaction, assistive technology support, and tested component APIs. The library serves Canadian and US segments across more than 100 digital properties.
Key Responsibilities
Strive toward WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility standards
Implement ARIA, keyboard interaction, and assistive technology support
Design component APIs for hundreds of applications
Maintain semantic versioning and deprecation paths
Collaborate with designers, architects, and product teams
Requirements
Five or more years building production front-end applications or libraries
Hands-on expertise in React, TypeScript, and contemporary CSS
Accessibility experience with semantic HTML and ARIA
Experience building reusable libraries or design systems
Automated accessibility testing discipline
Bring accessibility, React, TypeScript, and shared-library expertise to help Manulife teams deliver compliant interfaces by default.