Boeing

Principal Greenfield Software Developer (Builder) - Digital Services

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Richmond, CanadaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Own the technical scope, architecture, implementation, and delivery planning for a product capability.
  • Build full-stack, production-grade, cloud-native applications spanning frontend interfaces, backend services, APIs, and enterprise integrations.
  • Design scalable event-driven and microservices architectures and make day-to-day architecture decisions.
  • Integrate AI, ML, and LLM capabilities into production products, including retrieval-augmented generation, orchestration, and agent workflows.
  • Implement delivery automation, automated testing, and CI/CD pipelines to support frequent and reliable releases.
  • Serve as Builder Lead for a small team by organizing work, breaking down tasks, pairing on difficult problems, and keeping delivery on track.
  • Coach developers through code review, technical mentorship, knowledge sharing, and AI-assisted development practices.
  • Represent the technical work to Product, Design, and technical leadership and provide technical documentation.
  • Apply algorithms, statistical modeling, machine learning, optimization, forecasting, simulation, and quantitative methods to product and operational problems.
  • Evaluate model and algorithm performance using metrics, test data, error analysis, and production feedback.

Requirements

  • At least 7 years of hands-on software development or engineering experience in complex enterprise or cloud environments.
  • At least 7 years of full-stack development experience building and shipping customer-facing or internal business applications.
  • At least 4 years of experience integrating AI, ML, or LLM capabilities into production software, including RAG, agent workflows, prompt orchestration, or model/API integration.
  • At least 2 years of technical leadership experience involving architecture input, code review, task breakdown, mentoring, and implementation guidance.
  • At least 2 years as a technical lead or builder lead owning a product capability or feature set from design through delivery.
  • Strong proficiency in at least one modern programming language and framework, with working knowledge of additional languages or stacks.
  • Experience designing, building, testing, and maintaining scalable cloud-native applications using distributed-system patterns, microservices, and event-driven systems.
  • Experience with CI/CD, automated testing, version control, and software delivery practices.
  • Experience collaborating across Product, Design, Engineering, and Operations to convert ambiguous business needs into measurable technical solutions.
  • Experience with data cleaning, feature design, validation, quality checks, analytical workflows, data pipelines, experimentation, and production monitoring for models or algorithms.
  • Experience using AI coding tools such as Claude, Cursor, or Windsurf and working with retrieval-augmented generation, LLM orchestration, or agent workflows.
  • Must be legally authorized to work in Canada, not pose a safeguarding risk for controlled goods, and be eligible to handle US export-controlled data.
  • Preferred qualifications include a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Information Systems; modern cloud and application-delivery tooling experience; enterprise systems and legacy modernization experience; and aerospace or industrial software experience.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work arrangement requiring 2–3 days per week in the Richmond, British Columbia office.
  • The position is locally hired in Canada and is not an expatriate assignment or part of Boeing US payroll.
  • Relocation assistance is not a negotiable benefit.
  • The position does not require a security clearance.
  • Employer will not sponsor applicants for employment visa status.
Boeing

About Boeing

10,000+ employees

Boeing designs, manufactures, and services commercial airplanes along with defense and space systems for airlines, governments, and space agencies worldwide. It sells aircraft and related systems plus aftermarket support and lifecycle services. Founded in 1916 and headquartered in Arlington, VA, Boeing is a public company listed on the NYSE (BA), with notable programs including the 737/787 families and work on NASA space initiatives.

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