Director of Engineering

About Felix

Founded in 2019, Felix is a patient-driven digital healthcare company that puts you in control of your health and wellbeing. We’re passionate about building technology and beautiful customer experiences to make healthcare more accessible (and more enjoyable) for all Canadians. Our strong venture partners provide us with the resources to support our rapid growth, and we are continuing to build our incredible team based all across Canada. Felix is Canada's first end-to-end healthcare experience, providing online treatment, prescription delivery and ongoing care across over 20 categories such as weight loss, birth control, erectile dysfunction, acne and more.

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Description

As our Director of Engineering, you will help build, execute, and communicate the Felix engineering vision. Working alongside our SVP of engineering, you will help define the roadmap and strategic goals. You will help oversee our 32-developer team, ensuring we hit company and team metrics, manage timelines, identify resources, create incredible leverage with the latest tools and technologies and ensure delivery on commitments to the business.

You will be integral in the engineering, architecture and management of our high-performing team. A core focus will be defining key processes and practices, and experimenting with new technology to push the envelope on how fast and well we can build using AI-powered tools like Claude Code.

Responsibilities

• Spearhead the strategy for maximizing velocity, quality, and maintainability of code developed by the team, primarily utilizing Claude Code and the latest LLMs for software development.

• Define and optimize workflows, tooling, and processes to ensure the developer team pushes the envelope on build speed and quality in an AI-augmented environment.

• Mentor and inspire our development team by providing architectural, technical, and AI-development best-practice guidance.

• Design, implement and monitor all operations and key performance indicators, including metrics and operational efficiency, from the engineering team.

• Create and execute successful technological strategies that reflect and are aligned with the vision and mission of Felix.

• Collaborate closely with our SVP Engineering, Product and Ops teams, helping set strategic initiatives.

• Continue to build our amazing Engineering team through the recruitment of top engineering talent.

Requirements

• Has 5+ years of leadership experience in software engineering.

• Proven, hands-on experience integrating and managing large teams (30+ developers) that are using AI-powered code generation tools to significantly enhance development speed and quality.

• Deep understanding of the opportunities and challenges in an AI-augmented software development lifecycle (SDLC), including code review best practices, prompt engineering for development, and maximizing throughput with code-generating models.

• Demonstrates the ability to build cohesive, high-performing and healthy teams and has proven relationship management and leadership skills—they don’t shy away from challenging or difficult conversations.

• Effectively manages diverse, simultaneous projects of varying complexities and is an experienced project manager, problem solver and change manager.

• Understands the importance of effective collaboration and can get people on board with their ideas.

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

• Incredible culture powered by a highly collaborative and high-performing team

• Large impact at a mid-stage technology company

• Professional development opportunities, working closely with founders and the senior leadership team

Location: Toronto, Remote (Canada). We have an office in Toronto, but are currently working remotely and open to candidates from anywhere in Canada.

Open vacancy: This posting is for an existing vacancy at the company.

We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace committed to building a team culture that celebrates diversity and inclusion, and as such do not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws. Selection decisions are solely based on job-related factors.

If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process, please contact accessibility@felixforyou.ca.