Back-End Software Engineer (Associate, Experienced or Senior)

Back-End Software Engineer (Associate, Experienced or Senior) at BOEING summary:

A Back-End Software Engineer at Boeing develops and supports web applications and services, focusing on designing APIs, data processing pipelines, and production-ready infrastructure for the Boeing Defense Services organization. The role involves collaborating on system architecture, optimizing SQL queries, and ensuring scalable and reliable server applications with opportunities to evolve into full-stack development. Candidates require programming expertise, experience with cloud technologies, and the ability to obtain a U.S. Security Clearance.

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 a Back-End Software Engineer (Associate, Experienced or Senior) to support our Model-Based Engineering Software (MBSE) team l o cated in Berkeley, Missouri. This position will focus on supporting the Boeing Defense Services (B D S) business organization.

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 .

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.

Position Responsibilities:

• Mastering your craft and learning continuously

• 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

This position is expected to be 100% onsite. The selected candidate will be required to work onsite at one of the listed location options.

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/ Experience):

• Ability to obtain Secret U.S. Security Clearance

• 2+ years of experience in backend software development

• 2+ years of experience in programming languages such as JavaScript, C#, Python, SQL, etc.

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):

• 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.

• 3 or more years' related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience

• 5 or more years' related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience

• Experience interfacing with databases using SQL or PL/SQL

• Strong experience with Go or Java

• Basic C++, Python

• Experience with Kafka, NiFi , Redis, or RabbitMQ

• Experience with GitLab, GitLab Runner, CI / CD, Docker, Kubernetes

• Experience developing RESTful APIs for complex datasets

• Experience leading projects

• AWS cloud experience

• 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: Occa sional travel may be required (less than 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 for Associate Level: $86,700 - $117,300

Summary pay range for Experienced Level : $107,100 - $144,900

Summary pay range for Senior Level: $127,500 - $172,500

Applications for this position will be accepted until Oct. 14, 2025

Relocation

This position offers relocation based on candidate eligibility.

Security Clearance

This position requires the ability to obtain a U.S. Security Clearance for which the U.S. Government requires U.S. Citizenship. An interim and/or final U.S. Secret Clearance Post-Start is required.

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.

Keywords:

Back-End Development, API Design, Cloud Computing, SQL Optimization, Microservices, Distributed Systems, JavaScript, Python, Go, Security Clearance