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 Linked In 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  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 Type Script from a single shared codebase.

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

Support reuse across public  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 Native Wind 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 Dev Ops, 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  and Member portal features, CMS-driven pages, reusable components, and…