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# Frontend Developer, Intermediate (Remote Canada) at Smile Digital Health

- **Company:** Smile Digital Health
- **Location:** Toronto, Canada
- **Compensation:** $90k–$100k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-06
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-16
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/smiledigitalhealth/a3849d66-bf5a-42d0-87da-99529847a149

## Job description

Working for a company like Smile Digital Health means supporting our mandate for #BetterGlobalHealth. We strive towards this goal every day, and the results can be seen in the impact of our innovative health data platform and data management solutions, which are used in over 20 countries. We were #19 on Deloitte's Technology Fast 50 Ranking for 2024!

Smile Digital Health makes it easy for healthcare stakeholders to collect and exchange data with our leading FHIR-based data liberation platform.

At its heart, the Smile platform enables people and organizations to better manage healthcare data. We help generate and liberate structured healthcare data to ensure effective delivery across care teams and health systems bringing  #BetterGlobalHealth to patients everyday!

Apply today and find plenty of reasons to SMILE!

The Intermediate Front End Developer is a technical role that supports building and maintaining the user-facing aspects of Smile Digital Health’s Clinical Intelligence platform. This role enables a seamless user experience by translating design concepts into functional technical roadmaps and developing a functional, interactive and intuitive user interface. This role will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to gather requirements, design and implement applications and test components of the system.

Responsibilities:

- Support in shaping the approach, scope, milestones, and solution design of a responsive, performant and scalable user interface for assigned modules and features.
- Work closely with the development team(s) to implement solutions by writing code, creating components and modules that meet development requirements.
- Write comprehensive and manageable code and unit tests as well as develop and maintain relevant documentation for front-end components. Participate in rigorous testing cycles and defect resolution.
- Develop and maintain a deep understanding of the functionality being developed to provide support to the team.
- Lead architectural design discussions with regards to Angular front-end designs and help mentor/coach other developers in learning these best practices.
- Contribute and adhere to team/department coding standards to ensure consistency.
- Attend and participate in client meetings, as required.
- Lead and engage in detailed and in-person code reviews, pair-programming and collaborative problem analysis with teammates.
- Participate in monthly Technology meetings to help guide corporate technical processes, architecture, and strategy.

Requirements:

- 5+ years of software development experience with Angular, JavaScript/Typescript, HTML, CSS and Git.
- Experience in the healthcare and/or technology industry preferred.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or equivalent and/or equivalent work experience.
- Demonstrated experience with building apps using Angular and having an in-depth understanding of core concepts including, but not limited to, state management/ observables/interceptors/routing, etc.
- Familiar with agile and scrum processes.
- Excellent written and verbal communication that ensures effective collaboration and clear documentation.
- Experience with Slack, Google technologies, Figma, Jira, GitLab, Postman, Microsoft Azure, Jasmine/Karma, Cordova/Ionic, REST APIs, Bootstrap, preferred.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Docker containers and networking, preferred.
- Knowledge or experience in healthcare, HL7/ FHIR is an asset but not required.

Smile discloses that artificial intelligence (AI) may be used in portions of the recruitment and selection process, such as resume screening or application assessment. All hiring decisions are ultimately made by qualified human decision-makers, and AI tools are used to support — not replace — fair and equitable hiring practices. This position is a replacement role, created to support Smile’s continued growth and commitment to operational excellence.

Some of the benefits we offer:

- Remote Work Environment
- Flexible Time Away From Work Policy including PTO, Personal and Sick Days
- Competitive Salary and Health/Medical Benefits
- RRSP/TFSA/401K Employee Contribution
- Life and Disability
- Employee Assistance Program
- FHIR Study Program and Skillsoft Learning
- Super HAPI Fun Club

Smile's core values include respect, inclusion, embracing our differences, and celebrating shared values because our people are the foundation of our success. We are big on creating a sense of belonging and empowering each other to bring our authentic selves to work.  We are dedicated to fostering a workplace that values diversity, equity, and inclusion.

We welcome and encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply. Candidates are encouraged to inform us if they wish to discuss or require accommodations during interviews or while working at Smile.

## About Smile Digital Health

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Smile Digital Health provides a FHIR-native health data platform that unifies fragmented healthcare data for governments, health systems, and providers.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B)
- **Headquarters**: Toronto, Ontario, Canada (US office in Austin, Texas)
- **Founded**: 2016
- **Founders**: James Agnew, Duncan Weatherston

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Healthcare IT / Health Data Interoperability
- Target customers: Governments, health systems, healthcare providers, researchers, app developers (B2B, Enterprise)
- Mission: "Reduce barriers between information and care, and accelerate delivery of high-quality care" — guided by the tagline #BetterGlobalHealth

## Products & Services
- **[Smile CDR]**: The world’s first FHIR-based clinical data repository (CDR) as a service. A high-performance, secure platform supporting multiple FHIR versions, HL7v2, custom ETL, federated identity, terminology services, and Smart on FHIR. Deployable on cloud or on-premises.
- **Health Data Fabric**: A comprehensive, FHIR-native platform enabling interoperability, digital quality measures, and clinical intelligence across enterprise data sources.
- **HAPI FHIR Maintenance**: Smile Digital Health is the primary maintainer of the HAPI FHIR open-source reference implementation, giving them deep influence over FHIR standards worldwide.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue of $15.4M; Total funding of $65M
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: UPMC Enterprises (led Series A and Series B), FirePower Capital (debt financing)
- **Growth Signals**: 190+ global implementations, 30+ US payer compliance deploys, touching 110M+ American lives; headcount grew 2.3% YoY to ~201 employees across 7 countries (Canada, US, India, Philippines, New Zealand); contributed to 33+ HL7 working groups

## Competitive Advantages
- Deep expertise: Core team has 40+ years of enterprise-class systems experience, specifically in healthcare integration (HAPI, e-prescriptions).
- Open-source leadership: Maintainer of HAPI FHIR, the dominant open-source FHIR implementation worldwide — gives them unmatched influence over FHIR standards.
- Security & compliance focus: Holds rigorous security certifications and voluntarily undergoes multiple audits; data stewardship and privacy are top priorities.
- Human-in-the-loop AI approach: Deploys deterministic AI models and clinically verifiable information with full audit trails, differentiating from probabilistic models.
- Multi-version FHIR support & federated identity: Flexibility for both jurisdictional and organizational settings, supporting a wide range of deployment scenarios.

## Strategic Focus
- Continuing to build out the FHIR-native "Health Data Fabric" to enable AI-driven innovation, intelligent automation, and scalable outcomes for global healthcare.
- Scaling interoperable data infrastructures that are "complete, computable, and validated" to support clinical quality measures and AI.
- Expanding global presence (currently active in Canada, US, India, Philippines, New Zealand) with a remote-first culture, focusing on hiring across Canada and the US.

## Why Work Here
- **Remote-first culture**: Work from home, co-working spaces, or anywhere you feel inspired; meaningful in-person team meetups also happen.
- **Flexibility & autonomy**: Generous, flexible PTO; ability to set your own schedule.
- **Global, mission-driven team**: 201 employees across 7 countries working on transforming healthcare data — work that directly impacts 110M+ American lives.
- **Inclusive values**: Core values of respect, inclusion, and celebrating individuality; commitment to diverse teams and belonging.
- **Benefits**: Comprehensive physical, emotional, and mental well-being benefits including mental health resources, short/long-term disability, life insurance.
- **Growth & development**: On-the-job learning, certification opportunities, and embedded professional development.
- **Open positions**: Technical Manager (Implementations & Delivery), Technical Account Manager, Senior Performance Tester, Senior Agile Lead, Support Engineer L2, Senior Software Developer (Support), Account Executive, Senior Cloud Architect, Senior Cloud Engineer — all remote US or remote Canada.

## Sources
1. [smiledigitalhealth.com](https://www.smiledigitalhealth.com/about-us)
2. [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/smile-cdr)
3. [smiledigitalhealth.com](https://www.smiledigitalhealth.com/careers)
4. [jobs.lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/smiledigitalhealth)
5. [indeed.com](https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Smile-Digital-Health)

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