BackEnd Software Engineer (Experienced or Senior)
About The Position
The Boeing Company is seeking a BackEnd Software Engineer (Experienced or Senior) to lead their Model-Based Engineering (MBE) software team in Berkeley, Missouri, supporting the Boeing Defense Services (BDS) business organization. This role focuses on building prototypes and new capabilities for web applications and services, including designing APIs, developing data-processing and analytics pipelines, optimizing SQL queries, and establishing production-ready infrastructure. The backend developer will be instrumental in shaping the architecture for transitioning prototypes and minimum viable products into production. Responsibilities may include researching and selecting technologies and programming languages, building reliable and high-performance server applications, and ensuring systems can scale to support a large user base. For the right candidate, this role may evolve into a full-stack position with frontend development opportunities.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree
- Active U.S. Secret Security Clearance
- Ability to obtain Special Program Access
- 5+ years of experience in backend software development (Java, Spring, Oracle SQL, SQL Server)
- 5+ years of experience with Go, Python, Java or equivalent server language
- 5+ years of experience with database technologies using SQL or PL/SQL
- Knowledge and understanding of Agile development processes
Nice To Haves
- 9 or more years’ related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience
- Active Top Secret U.S. Security Clearance
- 5+ years of experience in infrastructure development
- Experience with concurrency programming
- Experience with GitLab, CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes
- Strong experience with JavaScript frameworks: NodeJS, ReactJS
- Strong experience with Go or Java
- Basic C++ or Python
- Familiar with Kafka, NiFi, Redis, or RabbitMQ
- Experience developing RESTful APIs for complex datasets
- Experience leading projects
- Experience with AWS cloud
- 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
- Leads architecture, development, documentation and maintenance of standardized, efficient, and innovative processes, tools, methodologies, and performance metrics to streamline the software engineering lifecycle and enable continuous integration, delivery, and deployment of safety critical software
- Provide comprehensive technical oversight for different systems, guiding teams in designing and operating production-ready systems
- Evaluate emerging technologies and seek innovative solutions to address existing and new challenges
- Mentor and develop engineers across all levels through sharing and learning
- Ability to take projects from beginning to end with little direct supervision
- Teamwork and coordination skills with ability to create clarity from ambiguity
- Work with a team to shape the architecture of several web 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
- Engage in architectural discussions, influence the roadmap, and take ownership of key projects and initiatives
- Resolving complex technical issues and driving innovations that improve system availability, resilience, and performance
- Research and oversees implementation of current and emerging technologies, tools, frameworks and changes in regulations relevant to software development
- Oversee the architecture, design, development, analyses, and maintenance of large-scale software systems that meet industry, customer and quality
- Partners with appropriate stakeholders to inform system definition and oversees translation of system-level requirements into software requirements and models that meet customer, operational and performance requirements and have clear traceability to design, code and test artifacts
- Oversees code reviews to ensure alignment to requirements and standards
Benefits
- health insurance
- flexible spending accounts
- health savings accounts
- retirement savings plans
- life and disability insurance programs
- paid and unpaid time away from work
- relocation
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
