Appnovation is the AI Product Company. Headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, with teams around the world, Appnovation builds AI products, delivers enterprise AI and digital solutions, and co-invests with clients to bring new AI products to market. Open source has been the foundation of Appnovation's work since 2007, and it remains the foundation underneath every AI product the company builds today.

Appnovation teams work with organizations in highly regulated industries, including global leaders such as Pfizer, Google and AstraZeneca, to help them adopt AI they can govern and own. Technology is foundational to all of Appnovation's offerings, from consulting to digital innovation to digital product and service creation. The technology department is focused on delivering software solutions that enable rich consumer experiences, from mobile and web applications to advanced analytics and machine learning, to content and engagement management service enablement platforms.

Inherent throughout our tech capabilities is deep expertise in the Software Development Life Cycle, a drive for creativity, a passion for the craft, and collaboration with other disciplines - all foundational ingredients in successful digital experiences and client partnerships. We are seeking a Web Platform Engineer to be the hands-on technical expert for the web and content management (CMS) platforms of a global life sciences client. This is an architect-engineer role: you will help set technical direction, and you will also dig into the code yourself.

You will lead the technical side of a CMS evaluation and modernization effort, quickly prototype new platform capabilities, and shape the platform layer that teams use to build and run patient and healthcare professional (HCP) websites at scale. You will work closely with the client's infrastructure, engineering and product teams, turning website needs into clear platform and integration requirements. The role is focused on web and CMS platforms only.

CMS Evaluation and Selection: Lead the technical side of evaluating modern CMS and digital experience platforms, including headless and AI-enabled options. Assess them against criteria such as AI-assisted authoring and site creation, integration fit, security, hosting on client-controlled infrastructure, and long-term cost,



and make clear, evidence-based recommendations. Shape, maintain and evolve the web platform layer that sits on top of the CMS, including tooling for creating new sites, reusable components and templates, automated testing, and managing content at scale.

Define the target architecture and migration approach for moving websites from legacy platforms, such as Drupal and in-house site builders, onto the selected platform, including reusable patterns, risks, dependencies and quality gates.

Infrastructure and Integration Partnership: Act as the web team's technical liaison to central infrastructure and engineering teams. Turn website and CMS needs into clear requirements for hosting, integrations, APIs and AI/MCP layers, and represent the web platform in engineering office hours and guild forums. AI-Enabled Content and Delivery: Help shape how AI is used across the platform, from prompt-based content updates and site creation to automated testing and validation, with the right governance and controls in place.

Quality, Security and Compliance: Make sure platform patterns support enterprise expectations for security, privacy and consent, accessibility, performance, SEO and regulatory compliance in a highly regulated environment.

Technical Guidance and Issue Resolution: Be the go-to technical expert for website teams, help resolve complex platform and integration issues, and use what you learn to drive lasting fixes and platform improvements. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience, with 10+ years in web engineering and architecture, including 5+ years working hands-on with enterprise CMS or digital experience platforms. Proven experience leading, or playing a key technical role in, a CMS evaluation, selection or replatforming effort.

Strong development background,



comfortable reading and writing code in GitHub repositories and building working prototypes quickly. Solid knowledge of web architecture, front-end technologies, APIs, CI/CD, CDNs and third-party integrations such as analytics, consent, identity, forms and CRM.

Experience turning business and delivery needs into explicit technical and platform requirements, and working with infrastructure, product and vendor teams to get them delivered. Practical understanding of web security, privacy and consent, accessibility, performance and SEO.

Experience with AI-assisted content authoring, LLM-based tooling, or building and consuming MCP servers.

Experience building multi-site platforms, site factories or internal developer tooling, including automated testing.

Experience in a regulated industry, ideally life sciences or pharma, including patient and HCP websites. TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE Git and GitHub, CI/CD pipelines, CDNs, cloud hosting (AWS or Azure), automated testing.

Integrations: REST and GraphQL APIs, analytics, consent management, identity, forms and CRM. AI: LLM-based content tooling, MCP (build and consume), AI-assisted engineering tools such as Claude Code or GitHub Copilot. You are an architect who still enjoys writing code, and you are happy to dig into a repo to prove a point You can influence technology choices with engineers, infrastructure teams and senior leaders, often without formal authority You think about how to scale, automate and operate a platform, not just how to build a single site You set high standards for code quality, performance, accessibility and security, and seek continuous improvement You can explain complex technical topics clearly to technical and non-technical audiences You have solid analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills You have a customer-first mindset and build strong relationships with clients and partner teams You are comfortable with ambiguity and shifting priorities in a fast-paced environment Diversity, Equity & Inclusion is not only something that we embrace - we celebrate it!

Come join us at Appnovation, and learn more about how we stay true to our company values as we build better lives through better digital. Accommodations are available upon request throughout the recruitment process. #

📌 Web Platforms Engineer New Toronto
🏢 Appnovation
📍 Toronto