Software Engineer, Website

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Canada.

📋 Description

• Develop pages, blocks, and templates within Felix’s bespoke WordPress block theme.

• Convert Figma designs into reusable, tokenized components while ensuring consistency with the design system.

• Contribute to the architecture of the theme, create custom Gutenberg blocks, and develop custom plugins.

• Enhance the editing experience, empowering the Marketing team to build and iterate autonomously.

• Establish experimentation frameworks, analytics and reporting pipelines, content importers, and automated quality assurance tools.

• Design and utilize APIs that link the website with internal services, analytics platforms, and external tools.

• Safeguard performance and SEO by focusing on Core Web Vitals, image and asset delivery, structured data, caching, and technical SEO.

• Implement and uphold GTM, Segment, and GA4 tracking along with A/B tests.

• Collaborate directly with Design, Marketing, SEO, and Growth teams to define and execute projects.

• Conduct code reviews and assist in elevating engineering standards within a small team.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 3 years of experience with modern PHP 8+ and custom WordPress themes and plugins.

• Extensive experience with block themes, the block editor, custom blocks, theme.json, custom post types, and the WordPress data layer.

• Proficient in semantic, accessible HTML.

• Familiarity with CSS at scale, including design systems, design tokens, utility-first patterns, and responsive layouts.

• Strong skills in vanilla JavaScript (ES6+) and Web Components.

• Solid MySQL expertise, including schema design, queries, indexing, and diagnosing performance issues with queries.

• Experience in building APIs with REST, including authentication, versioning, and error management.

• Background in integrating third-party APIs.

• Knowledge of Docker for local development.

• Experience with Vite or a similar modern bundler and npm for the asset pipeline.

• Proficient in a Git-based workflow, including code review and CI/CD processes.

• Experience in delivering pixel-perfect, accessible interfaces based on Figma designs.

• Practical knowledge of Core Web Vitals, asset optimization, caching, structured data, and technical SEO.

• Experience in implementing event tracking and managing or supporting A/B tests.

• Ability to clearly articulate technical trade-offs to non-engineering stakeholders.

• Legally authorized to work in Canada.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits.

• Maternity and paternity leave policy.

• 4 weeks of vacation (3 weeks at any time + 1 week during the holiday season).

• Competitive salary package.

• Stock option grant.

• Remote-first work model, allowing work from anywhere in Canada.

• Opportunities for professional development, collaborating closely with founders and the senior leadership team.