Software Engineer, Website
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Job Summary
About Felix
Founded in 2019 Felix is a digital healthcare company that puts the patient in control of their own health and wellbeing. Were passionate about building technology and beautiful customer experiences to make healthcare more accessible (and more enjoyable) for all Canadians.
Felix is Canadas first end-to-end healthcare experience providing online treatment prescription delivery and ongoing care. We deliver care across a growing range of daily health categories such as weight loss birth control menopause erectile dysfunction acne and more.
About The Role
As a Software Engineer youll work with team on that surface: a custom WordPress block theme the design system behind it the custom blocks Marketing builds pages with and the internal tooling around it experimentation analytics reporting content import pipelines and QA automation.
This is a small team so the work is broad and youll have real input into how we build. Youll take designs from Figma to production then build the tools that make the next one faster. Youll work directly with Design Marketing SEO and Growth.
You Will:
Build the site: Ship pages blocks and templates in our custom WordPress block theme. Translate Figma designs into reusable tokenized components rather than one-off markup and help keep the design system consistent as the site grows.
Grow the platform: Contribute to the theme architecture custom Gutenberg blocks and custom plugins. Help make the editing experience good enough that Marketing can build and iterate on pages without engineering in the loop.
Build the surrounding tools: Our experimentation framework analytics and reporting pipelines content importers and automated QA. Recognize when a recurring manual task should become a tool and then build it.
Connect the systems: Build and consume APIs to move data between the site and the rest of the business internal services analytics platforms and third-party tools.
Protect performance and SEO: Core Web Vitals image and asset delivery structured data and technical SEO.
Instrument and measure: Implement and maintain tracking (GTM Segment GA4) and A/B tests so Growth can make decisions from real data.
Collaborate: Work directly with Design Marketing and SEO to scope work push back where it makes sense and ship. Review code and help raise the bar on a small team.
You Have:
PHP and WordPress at depth: 3 years in modern PHP 8 building custom WordPress themes and plugins. Block themes the block editor custom blocks custom post types and the WP data layer not page-builder or off-the-shelf theme work.
Core front-end: Semantic accessible HTML. CSS at scale design systems design tokens utility-first patterns responsive layout. Strong vanilla JavaScript (ES6) and Web Components.
Databases: Solid MySQL schema design writing and reading queries indexing and diagnosing slow queries.
APIs: Experience both building APIs (REST authentication versioning error handling) and integrating third-party ones.
Tooling and environments: Docker for local development Vite (or an equivalent modern bundler) and npm for the asset pipeline and a Git-based workflow with code review and CI/CD.
Design implementation: Experience working from Figma and shipping pixel-accurate accessible interfaces without hardcoding your way around the design system.
Performance and SEO fundamentals: Practical experience with Core Web Vitals asset optimization caching structured data and the technical side of search.
Analytics and experimentation: Comfortable implementing event tracking and running or supporting A/B tests and reasoning about whether a result is real.
Communication and self-direction: Able to move work forward on a small team without a lot of process and to explain technical tradeoffs clearly to non-engineering stakeholders.
Bonus
AI workflows: Building with LLM APIs or using AI tooling to speed up your own development and automate internal processes.
Cloudflare: DNS caching and page rules WAF or Workers.
Terraform: Managing infrastructure as code.
Laravel: Or another modern PHP framework outside WordPress.
: Or another modern JS framework for internal tools and admin interfaces.
Experience migrating a marketing site between platforms (Webflow Contentful or similar WordPress).
Headless or hybrid WordPress or WordPress REST/GraphQL API work.
Handling private healthcare data or working in a regulated/compliance-sensitive environment.
Benefits:
Full medical dental and vision benefits
Maternity/paternity policy
4 weeks vacation (3 weeks anytime 1 week during the holidays)
Competitive compensation
Stock option grant
Remote first work from anywhere in Canada
Professional development opportunities working closely with founders and the senior leadership team
Required Experience:
IC
About Company
Felix offers on-demand treatment for common health issues such as erectile dysfunction, hair loss, HIV prevention, acne, birth control, and more.