Aviation Full-Stack Engineer: AI-Driven Modernization

Terminal; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Jeppesen ForeFlight is seeking a Software Engineer to help deliver aviation-product modernization initiatives. You will join a small, cross-functional team and contribute across the delivery lifecycle—from problem understanding to design, implementation, testing, deployment, and stabilization—with guidance from senior engineers on well-scoped features.

The ideal candidate combines strong software-engineering fundamentals with growing judgment and production experience.

Qualifications

• Solid software-engineering skills in Python or another general-purpose programming language.
• Experience contributing to the development and operation of production software.
• Hands-on experience using coding agents or comparable AI-assisted development tools to make meaningful changes in real software systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, deploy, and help operate software supporting aviation products and modernization initiatives, primarily at the feature and component level.
• Turn defined product requirements into clear technical designs, interfaces, acceptance criteria, and well-scoped units of work, escalating ambiguity and tradeoffs early.
• Use coding agents and other AI-assisted development tools throughout the lifecycle—codebase exploration, implementation, refactoring, debugging, testing, and review.
• Break work into bounded tasks with enough context and constraints that both you and coding agents can execute them reliably, and integrate the results coherently.
• Critically evaluate AI-generated solutions for correctness, security, maintainability, performance, and fit with existing systems rather than accepting output as authoritative.
• Establish appropriate verification for your changes using automated testing, static analysis, security tooling, observability, and peer review.
• Integrate new capabilities with existing systems, workflows, and aviation data formats while being mindful of compatibility and migration risk.
• Identify technical risks and dependencies in your area and communicate them clearly to your team.
• Participate actively in code review, production support, and the continuous improvement of the team's engineering and AI-assisted development practices.

Skills

Python

CI/CD

AI Agents

SQL

Job description

Jeppesen ForeFlight is seeking a Software Engineer to help deliver aviation-product modernization initiatives. You will join a small, cross-functional team and contribute across the delivery lifecycle—from problem understanding to design, implementation, testing, deployment, and stabilization—with guidance from senior engineers on well-scoped features.

The ideal candidate combines strong software-engineering fundamentals with growing judgment and production experience.