Senior Software Developer and AI Platform Architect
Position Summary
Vertical Motion builds custom software for clients and develops AI-enabled products and engineering tools. This senior role centres on AI engineering, security, infrastructure and harness development: the software that gives AI agents context, tools, execution environments and reliable feedback. It combines ownership of internal engineering platforms with delivery and modernization of client production systems.
The role works directly with company leadership, client stakeholders, client developers and QA.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
General Responsibilities
Research, evaluate and select technologies and architectural approaches for recent and existing systems.
Translate business and user requirements into technical specifications and system, data and integration architectures.
Coordinate implementation and releases with company staff and client teams, including requirements, estimates and delivery planning.
AI Engineering and Harness Development
Architect and maintain production AI applications using model-agnostic integrations that allow providers and models to evolve without substantial redesign.
Build context management and grounding capabilities that give agents relevant information while preserving source attribution.
Integrate agents with APIs, repositories and engineering tools using Model Context Protocol (MCP) or equivalent interfaces.




Develop harness orchestration for tool execution, task state, cancellation and failure recovery, connecting agents to managed execution environments.
Software Intelligence and Supply Chain Security
Develop software analysis services using relational or graph data models, with source parsing, indexing, search and dependency analysis across multiple languages.
Integrate dependency inventories and vulnerability management tools, using package manifests and lock files to identify installed versions and track findings.
Generate and process Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs) using established standards, and integrate dependency analysis into repository and CI/CD workflows.
Develop grounded AI-assisted code review, reporting and software analysis workflows through repository APIs, webhooks and other controlled integrations.
Design measured experiments to evaluate AI and code-analysis approaches, document results and determine their suitability for production use.
Client System Development and Support
Deliver features across data, APIs, interfaces and background processing in assigned client systems.
Develop business workflows for operational records, reporting, review, assessment and certification, including notifications and auditability.
Implement multi-tenant applications, document processing, approval workflows and concurrency controls.
Support subscription applications,

📌 Senior software developer and ai platform architect (Kelowna)
🏢 Vertical Motion
📍 Kelowna