Job Description
At Boeing, we innovate and collaborate to make the world a better place. We’re committed to fostering an environment for every teammate that’s welcoming, respectful and inclusive, with great opportunity for professional growth. Find your future with us.
The Boeing Company is currently seeking Back-End Software Engineer (Experienced or Senior) to lead our Model-Based Engineering Software (MBE) team located in Berkeley, Missouri. This position will focus on supporting the Boeing Defense Services (BDS) business organization.
This position will focus on developing prototypes and new capabilities for web-applications and services. You will design APIs, create data processing and analytics pipelines, optimize SQL queries, and build up production-ready infrastructure. In this backend developer position, you’ll be helping shape the architecture and infrastructure needed to make our prototypes and minimum-viable products production ready. Some examples of the work involved may include but are not limited to researching and selecting technologies and programing languages to use, building reliable and performant server applications using those technologies and languages, and ensuring our applications can scale to support hundreds to thousands of users. If the applicant desires, this position can evolve into a full-stack role to also do frontend development.
At The Boeing Company, we innovate and collaborate to make the world a better place. From the seabed to outer space, you can contribute to work that matters with a company built on shared values. We’re committed to fostering an environment for every teammate that’s welcoming, respectful and inclusive, with great opportunity for professional growth. Find your future with us.
Our teams are currently hiring for a broad range of experience levels including; Experienced or Senior Software Engineers.
Position 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
Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/ Experience):
Bachelor’s Degree
Active 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
Exposure to Agile process
Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):
Level 3: 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 5+ years of related work experience OR Bachelor’s Degree and 9+ years of directly related work experience OR 13+ years of related, relevant experience
Level 4: 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 9+ years of related work experience OR Bachelor’s Degree and 13+ years of directly related work experience OR 17+ years of related, relevant experience
9 or more years’ related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience
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
Travel: 10%
Drug Free Workplace:
Boeing is a Drug Free Workplace (DFW) where post offer applicants and employees are subject to testing for marijuana, cocaine, opioids, amphetamines, PCP, and alcohol when criteria is met as outlined in our policies.
CodeVue Coding Challenge:
To be considered for this position you will be required to complete a technical assessment as part of the selection process. Failure to complete the assessment will remove you from consideration.
Pay & Benefits:
At Boeing, we strive to deliver a Total Rewards package that will attract, engage and retain the top talent. Elements of the Total Rewards package include competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities.
The Boeing Company also provides eligible employees with an opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefit programs, generally including health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs, and a number of programs that provide for both paid and unpaid time away from work.
The specific programs and options available to any given employee may vary depending on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.
Pay is based upon candidate experience and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.
Summary Pay Range Experienced: $126,650 - $171,350
Summary Pay Range Senior: $160,650 - $217,350
Potential signing bonus for eligible/qualified external candidates.
Applications for this position will be accepted until Jun. 16, 2026
Export Control Requirements:
This position must meet U.S. export control compliance requirements. To meet U.S. export control compliance requirements, a “U.S. Person” as defined by 22 C.F.R. §120.62 is required. “U.S. Person” includes U.S. Citizen, U.S. National, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee.
Export Control Details:
US based job, US Person required
Education
Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Required
Relocation
This position offers relocation based on candidate eligibility.
Security Clearance
This position requires an active U.S. Secret Security Clearance (U.S. Citizenship Required). (A U.S. Security Clearance that has been active in the past 24 months is considered active)
Visa Sponsorship
Employer will not sponsor applicants for employment visa status.
Shift
This position is for 1st shift
Equal Opportunity Employer:
Boeing is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic factors, military/veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
