Front-End Development Engineer

Why you’ll love working here:

• high-performance, people-focused culture

• our commitment that equity, diversity, and inclusion are fundamental to our work environment and business success, which helps employees feel valued and empowered to be their authentic selves

• learning and development initiatives, including workshops, Speaker Series events and access to LinkedIn Learning, that support employees’ career growth

• membership in HOOPP’s world class defined benefit pension plan, which can serve as an important part of your retirement security

• competitive, 100% company-paid extended health and dental benefits for permanent employees, including coverage supporting our team's diversity and mental health (e.g., gender affirmation, fertility and drug treatment, psychological support benefits of $2,500 per year, parental leave top-up, and a health spending account).

• optional post-retirement health and dental benefits subsidized at 50%

• yoga classes, meditation workshops, nutritional consultations, and wellness seminars

• the opportunity to make a difference and help take care of those who care for us, by providing a financially secure retirement for Ontario healthcare workers

Job Summary

The Pension Application Development Team (PAD) is looking for a Front-end Development Engineer to help enable front-end development activities for the new digital experience platform, supporting reusable, accessible, CMS-driven web and mobile experiences across public HOOPP.com and authenticated member experiences. We value thoughtful innovation, secure engineering, shared ownership, and continuous learning.

What you will do:

Development and Maintenance

• Develop cross-platform web and mobile user interfaces using React latest stable version and TypeScript from a single shared codebase.

• Build and maintain reusable UI components aligned to the new HOOPP.com, Member portal shared design system, including component variants, design tokens, accessibility patterns, and responsive layouts.

• Support reuse across public HOOPP.com and authenticated member experiences, reducing duplication and helping evolve a common front-end experience layer.

• Integrate Contentful headless CMS content into page templates, component layouts, and CMS-configured page compositions, while supporting hard-coded widgets where required.

• Implement utility-first styling using NativeWind and Tailwind-style patterns, adhering to centralized design tokens for colour, typography, spacing, theming, and layout consistency.

• Consume services through the DISP Orchestration API / Backend-for-Frontend pattern, ensuring clean separation between the front-end experience layer and backend orchestration services.

• Support localization and internationalization using react-native-i18next, including bilingual English/French content and component patterns.

• Contribute code to the PAD-Member-Experience-Layer repository in Azure DevOps, participating in pull requests, code reviews, branching, CI/CD, and defect resolution.

• Support front-end applications hosted on Azure App Service within enterprise network and security patterns, including DMZ App Service Environment working practices.

• Resolve complex front-end production issues across multiple experiences, APIs, content sources, and delivery teams.

​Agile and Collaboration

• Actively participate in Agile Scrum practices, including daily standups, backlog refinement, sprint planning, demos, reviews, and retrospectives.

• Collaborate with Product, Design, Architecture, QA, vendors and HOOPP technology teams on iterative delivery.

• Partner with UX/UI designers to translate designs, content models, and design-system guidance into production-ready, accessible components.

• Contribute during brainstorming and planning meetings, write wiki documentation, and support continuous improvement across front-end engineering practices.

• Foster a safe, supportive, and participatory environment that promotes mutual respect, thoughtful challenge, and shared ownership.

• Ask powerful questions, create awareness, and help individuals and groups explore practical options and decisions.

Development and Delivery

• Assist in delivering new HOOPP.com and Member portal features, CMS-driven pages, reusable components, and defect resolutions across public and authenticated digital experiences.

• Build, launch, and support significant front-end features, including planning, resolving dependencies with other teams, educating peers and stakeholders, and mitigating potential issues.

• Implement and support automated functional, component, accessibility, and regression tests for new and changed features.

• Help maintain front-end quality through peer reviews, reusable patterns, strong typing, clear documentation, and pragmatic engineering standards.

• Quickly learn, evaluate, and apply new concepts and technologies in support of the HOOPP.com, member portal front-end roadmap.

• Support the transition toward a scalable, CMS-driven, design-system-led front-end delivery model that improves velocity without sacrificing stability, accessibility, privacy, security, or compliance.

What you bring:

•  3+ years of front-end development experience with proven experience in React Native for web and mobile, TypeScript, component-based architecture, and design-system-driven delivery. Prior experience in regulated industries such as financial services, pension, healthcare, insurance, or other high-trust digital environment is an asset.

• Strong experience in developing for high-profile public web domains or large-scale authenticated digital products.

• Experience implementing reusable UI components using NativeWind, Tailwind, or similar utility-first styling frameworks.

• Experience working with centralized design tokens for colour, spacing, typography, layout, theming, and component consistency.

• Experience integrating with a headless CMS, preferably Contentful, including content models, page composition, reusable content blocks, and CMS-driven layouts.

• Experience consuming REST APIs through a Backend-for-Frontend or orchestration-layer pattern.

• Strong understanding of accessibility standards and practical experience building WCAG 2.2-compliant user interfaces.

• Working knowledge of Azure-hosted front ends, Azure App Service, and enterprise cloud environments.

• Skilled in modern development tools and practices, including unit testing, functional testing, component testing, automated regression testing, and code review.

• Ability to diagnose and resolve technical issues quickly and effectively across the UI, CMS, API, and hosting layers.

• Strong analytical skills to identify potential improvements and implement solutions that enhance reusability, accessibility, performance, maintainability, and user experience.

• Analytical mindset and innovative thinking to devise effective and efficient solutions to challenges, including decision-making.

• Ability to translate technical specifications into business benefits and help cross-functional teams understand how front-end architecture drives value for the organization.

The actual base salary offered to the successful candidate may vary based on multiple factors including, but not limited to, individual's expertise and level of experience applicable to the role they are being offered.  

This role is eligible to participate in discretionary incentive plan(s), subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable incentive plan text.