Software Development Associate Jobs in British Columbia

Imagine yourself...

• Building the technology that becomes the world's most trusted water intelligence platform, turning complex data into critical decisions that protect communities, ecosystems, and public health.

• Leading high-performing engineering teams at a market-leading SaaS company with a global customer base, strong recurring revenue, and a bold vision for AI-enabled innovation.

• Leaving a legacy beyond software by creating solutions that help safeguard one of the world's most essential resources:WATER.

It'spossible with a role atAquatic Informatics (https://aquaticinformatics.com/).

Aquatic Informatics (AQI), aVeraltocompany,is a mission-driven software companythat organizes the world's water data to make it accessible and useful. We provide software solutions that address critical water data management, analytics, and compliance challenges for the rapidly growing water industry.We offer a full range of solutions, from standalone software packages for individual users, hosted software services, and enterprise-wide national systems. We serve over 1,000 municipal, federal, state/provincial, hydropower, mining, academic, and consulting organizations in over 60 countries that collect, manage, and process large volumes of water data.

Aquatic Informatics is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada and has offices in the US and Australia. We value independent thinking, initiative, teamwork, a relentless pursuit of quality, a playful spirit, and a sense of humor. We like smart people - IQ and EQ -who care about the environment and want to do good in the world. Ours is a unique culturewhere purpose meets possibility: where the work we do makes a real differenceonthe world'svaluablewater resources, and whereyou'llhave opportunities toown your ambition and fuel your career growth.

We offer:

• Flexible working hours

• Professional onboarding and training options

• Powerful team looking forward to working with you

• Career coaching and development opportunities

• Health benefits

Reporting to the Vice President & General Manager, theVP of Software Engineeringwill lead AQI's software engineering organization and define the architectural and platform strategy that enables Product's roadmap. This leader will balance strategic vision with deep technical engagement-knowing when tooperateat the executive level and when to get close to the work to unblock teams, challenge assumptions, and accelerate delivery. TheVP of Software Engineeringwill lead engineering, architecture, DevOps, and platform teams to modernize legacy products, scale cloud and on-prem solutions, leverage AI to accelerate development, and deliver high-quality software that helps customers use water data and analytics to improve global water management.

The candidate shouldbased inVancouver, BC. This role requires approximately20% travelincluding travel to Canada and the U.S.

Whatyou willdo:

Define and execute AQI's architecture and platform strategy in close partnership with ProductManagement, translating product direction into the technical "how" that enables faster, scalable delivery.

Lead a distributed engineering organization ofapproximately 60-80 associates, including a senior L2 leadership team across Canada, the U.S. and India.

Modernize legacy code, platforms, and products while supporting cloud, hybrid cloud, and on-prem solutions across Azure and AWS environments.

Accelerate software delivery and product releases whilemaintainingquality, security, reliability, and customer impact.

Establishengineering excellence through modern Agile, DevOps, architectural governance, prioritization, trade-off decision-making, and execution rigor.

LeverageAI for coding and development acceleration, with the opportunity to support AI-enabled product capabilities that customers can use.

Coach, mentor, and inspire engineering leaders while fostering collaboration, accountability, followership, and a team-first culture that fits AQI's mission-driven environment.

What you bring

15+ years of software engineering experience, ideally with at least 7 yearsinengineering leadership roles.

Proven ability to lead software organizations through scale, modernization, platform evolution, and improved speed of delivery.

Experience leading leaders in multi-layer engineering organizations, including coaching autonomous senior managers without becoming a gatekeeper or micromanager.

Strong technical depth across software architecture, cloud-native and on-prem platforms, Azure and AWS, APIs, DevOps practices, and scalable enterprise software systems.

Track record of measurable impact, such as accelerating development, improving product release velocity, modernizing platforms, increasing quality, reducing complexity, or enabling customer and business outcomes.

Mission-driven mindset and genuine interest in AQI's purpose: using water data, analytics, and technology to support water conservation, chemical savings, energy savings, environmental impact, and smarter water management.