Associate Backend Software Engineer, Phantom Works

Boeing•St. Louis, MO
•$99,450 - $134,550•Onsite

About The Position

The Boeing Company is seeking an Associate Backend Software Engineer (Level 2) to lead their Model-Based Engineering (MBE) software team. This position will focus on supporting the Boeing Defense Services (BDS) business organization. The role involves developing prototypes and new capabilities for web-applications and services, including designing APIs, creating data processing and analytics pipelines, optimizing SQL queries, and building production-ready infrastructure. The engineer will help shape the architecture and infrastructure for prototypes and minimum-viable products to become production-ready. This may include researching and selecting technologies, building reliable and performant server applications, and ensuring scalability. The position can evolve into a full-stack role if desired.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree
  • Ability to obtain a U.S. Top Secret Security Clearance for which the U.S. Government requires U.S. Citizenship
  • 2+ years of experience in backend software development
  • 2+ years of experience with Go, Java, JavaScript, Python, or equivalent server language
  • 2+ years of experience with databases using SQL or PL/SQL
  • Experience with or working knowledge of concurrent computing and experience developing multi-threaded or multi-process software applications
  • Exposure to Agile process

Nice To Haves

  • Bachelor of Science degree from an accredited course of study in engineering, engineering technology (includes manufacturing engineering technology), chemistry, physics, mathematics, data science, or computer science and 2+ years of related work experience OR Bachelor’s Degree and 6+ years of directly related work experience OR 10+ years of related, relevant experience
  • Active U.S. Top Secret Security Clearance
  • Strong experience with JavaScript frameworks: NodeJS, ReactJS
  • Strong experience with Go or Java
  • Basic experience with C++
  • Experience with GitLab, CI / CD, Docker, Kubernetes
  • Experience with Kafka, NiFi, Redis, or RabbitMQ
  • Experience developing RESTful APIs for complex datasets
  • Experience leading projects
  • AWS cloud experience
  • 3+ years of experience in infrastructure development
  • Understanding microservices, client-server architecture, event-driven architecture, domain-driven design (DDD), and other modern architectural styles to build robust and adaptable systems
  • Experience in large-scale software system architecture, design, and development of distributed/on-premises end-to-end scalable software

Responsibilities

  • Mastering your craft and learning continuously.
  • Work with a team to shape the architecture of several server applications.
  • Build new and expand on existing infrastructure for multi-application communications, logging, alerts, authentication, configuration, and more.
  • Create test-suites for server applications to verify reliability, performance, and behavior.
  • Work collaboratively to make decisions that affect the entire system.
  • Interface with users and developers to define and implement solutions to meet requirements.
  • Work independently and with a team to prototype features and applications.
  • Communicate effectively to push the team’s processes to best fit our needs.

Benefits

  • health insurance
  • flexible spending accounts
  • health savings accounts
  • retirement savings plans
  • life and disability insurance programs
  • paid time away from work
  • unpaid time away from work
  • relocation assistance
  • signing bonus
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