Principal Greenfield Software Developer

Principal Greenfield Software Developer – Boeing Digital Services, Vancouver

Boeing Digital Services focuses on practical innovation that delivers tangible results in the aerospace industry. Our team leverages advanced technology and data analytics to develop intuitive, scalable, and secure solutions that empower customers, partners, and our team to succeed.

Boeing Vancouver is seeking an individual‑contributor Principal Developer (Builder) who will own end‑to‑end delivery of a product capability. The role is a hybrid position (2–3 days per week) based at our Richmond, BC office and requires collaboration with Product, Design, and Technical Leads.

• Own the technical scope for a product capability, shaping architecture, driving implementation, and planning delivery with the team.
• Build full‑stack, production‑grade, cloud‑native applications—including frontend interfaces, backend services, APIs, and integrations across complex enterprise environments.
• Write and review code across multiple languages and paradigms.
• Design event‑driven and microservices architectures that can scale, evolve, and be operated by teams beyond the original builders.
• Integrate AI, ML, or LLM capabilities into the product.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines and delivery automation that enable frequent, confident ship cycles.
• Make day‑to‑day architecture decisions and escalation of broader implications to leadership.
• Identify technical risk early and surface it clearly before it becomes a delivery problem.
• Generate ideas, fail fast, and demonstrate with key stakeholders.
• Drive knowledge sharing across teams and the broader technical group.
• Lead a small team of developers as Builder Lead—organizing work, breaking down tasks, pairing on hard problems, and keeping the team moving.
• Guide and drive adoption of AI‑assisted development methods (e.g., agentic coding or SDD).
• Uplift developers through code review, pairing, and day‑to‑day technical mentorship.
• Serve as a technical point of contact for the product capability, representing work clearly to product, design, and technical leads.
• Adapt quickly to change and shift focus as required to meet product needs.
• Contribute to and provide technical documentation for your area of responsibility.

• 7+ years of professional software development/engineering experience delivering production software in enterprise, cloud, or product development environments.
• 7+ years of proven full‑stack development experience building and shipping applications that include frontend user interfaces, backend services, APIs, and system integrations.
• 7+ years of experience with modern software delivery practices, including source control, branching strategies, automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and release management.
• 4+ years of general ML/Data integration experience, with recent production experience in LLM orchestration, Retrieval‑Augmented Generation, and AI Agents.
• 2+ years of experience as a manager, technical lead, or builder lead.
• Must be legally authorized to work in Canada.
• Must not pose a risk to the safeguarding of controlled goods.
• Must be eligible to handle U.S. export‑controlled data.

• Strong proficiency in at least one modern programming language and framework commonly used for production software development, with working knowledge of additional languages or stacks.
• Experience integrating AI, ML, or LLM capabilities into software applications.
• Experience building or integrating AI/ML/LLM‑powered product features in production.
• Experience with modern cloud platforms and application delivery tooling, such as container orchestration, infrastructure as code, observability tools, and automated deployment pipelines.
• Experience designing, building, testing, and maintaining scalable cloud‑native applications.
• Hands‑on experience with CI/CD, automated testing, version control, and delivery practices that support reliable and frequent software releases.
• Experience working in complex enterprise environments with distributed systems, legacy modernization, multi‑team dependencies, and integrated data or application ecosystems.
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