Salary: $46,679 - 160,700 per year
Requirements: - Strong background in PHP development and hands-on experience with the Laravel framework
- Proven experience building SaaS applications
- Solid knowledge of SQL databases
- Experience developing and integrating APIs
- Proficiency with Git and version control workflows
- Familiarity with React or Next.js is an asset
- Experience with cloud infrastructure, ideally DigitalOcean, is preferred
- Exposure to Stripe subscription billing is preferred
- Understanding of multi-tenant application architecture is preferred
- Experience with AI integrations such as OpenAI or Anthropic is preferred
- Startup, entrepreneurial, or founder-minded experience is an advantage
- Self-driven, resourceful, and comfortable operating in a fast-moving environment
- Able to balance technical quality with practical business priorities
Responsibilities: - Maintain, support, and improve our existing Laravel application
- Help define future technical architecture and make scalable design decisions
- Build and launch new features, modules, and product enhancements
- Develop and maintain APIs and third-party system integrations
- Contribute to AI-powered feature development and automation
- Improve platform performance, reliability, and security
- Translate business needs into effective technical solutions
- Participate in roadmap planning and product strategy discussions
- Support commercialization efforts as we grow the platform
- Assist with technical hiring and team expansion as needed
- Contribute to our long-term vision as a strategic partner in the business
Technologies: - AI
- API
- Cloud
- Git
- Support
- Laravel
- Mobile
- PHP
- React
- SQL
- Security
- CTO
- Frontend
- GitHub
- Marketing
More:
We are Florists Choice, a specialized floral business management and AI-powered SaaS platform built from years of real-world florist operations. Our software was originally developed and tested inside Flower Chix, a Calgary-based florist that grew from a small acquisition into a business generating over $2 million in annual revenue. We are now rebuilding and commercializing the platform for florists across Canada and the United States, with the goal of becoming the leading operating system for independent florists. Our current stack includes Laravel 12, a RESTful API architecture, React and Next.js, cloud infrastructure, Stripe billing, AI integrations, mobile-responsive design, and multi-region SaaS deployment. We offer a mostly remote setup with weekly face-to-face meetings, preferably in Calgary, and are open to exceptional candidates elsewhere. This opportunity may be structured as part-time, contract, equity partnership, or technical co-founder involvement, with compensation options that can include salary, contract work, equity, sweat equity, or direct investment. We also offer benefits such as casual dress, a flexible schedule, work from home, profit sharing, stock options, and an employee stock purchase plan.
last updated 22 week of 2026