Principal Engineer

Posted 4 days ago

Job Details

Full Time

Location

Vancouver, BC

Salary

dollar sign 150,000 to 185,000 per year

Job Description

Permanent Principal Engineering role with a company investing majorly into AI driven development.

What & Why:
Our client, a growing Vancouver-based company, is undergoing a full re platform of their core product, rebuilt from the ground up using AI-driven development workflows. In this role you will own architecture and technical design decisions across a full-stack, in-flight, AI-native rebuild and work hands-on in the codebase, writing, reviewing, and shaping production code. You’ll lead technical direction for developers on the team and actively use AI-driven development tools (including Claude Code) as a core part of the daily workflow and continue evolving the team's AI-assisted SDLC and pipeline. This is a hands-on technical leadership role, not a people-management position.

You:
You will bring the following education, skills and experience to the role:

Strong technical architecture and system design background, including experience leading technical decisions with developers reporting into that leadership (not necessarily people management)
Experience in a mid-sized company environment; someone pragmatic, not accustomed only to large-scale enterprise or FAANG type structures
Deep, current, hands-on experience with AI-native development, including tools like Claude Code and modern AI-driven SDLC practices; you should already be bought into this way of working, not learning it for the first time
A builder mentality: hands-on, technically curious, genuinely excited about new technology, ideally with personal projects or side work that reflects this

Compensation:
This role pays between $150,000 to $185,000 per annum as well as a solid benefits package.

Next Steps:
If the sound of this opportunity excites you, and you’re confident that it’s a good fit for your experience and career goals, then we’d love to hear from you! Please send your updated resume to us by applying to this posting and one of our awesome team of recruiters will be in touch.

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