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Boeing · 1 day ago

Senior Software Developer, Flight Operations

USA - Seattle, WA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$212K/yr - $286K/yr

10+ years exp

The Boeing Company is currently seeking a Senior Software Developer to support our Onboard Performance Tool group located in Seattle, WA. This position will focus on supporting the Boeing Global Services (BGS) business organization by developing and maintaining capabilities for the Onboard Performance Tool application used by airline pilots worldwide.

AerospaceIndustrial

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Owns the architecture, design, hands‑on development (writes, debugs, and refactors production code), analysis, and maintenance of large‑scale software systems that meet industry, customer, and quality standards

Partners with stakeholders to define systems and translates system‑level requirements into software requirements, models, and executable designs with clear traceability to design, code, and test artifacts

Actively codes and leads deep technical code reviews to ensure correctness, security, performance, and conformance to requirements and engineering standards

Implements, runs, and monitors verification strategies: authors and maintains automated tests, executes verification activities, triages and resolves issues, and signs off on software readiness for production

Reviews and improves product and process alignment with project plans and industry standards; tracks and evaluates internal team and supplier performance and contributes code or fixes when needed to meet delivery goals

Research, prototypes, and implements current and emerging technologies, tools, and frameworks; integrates changes into production codebases and documents adoption patterns and migration plans

Manages software project activities and coordinates software supplier relationships while contributing substantial hands‑on implementation work for critical deliverables

Provides comprehensive technical leadership by both designing systems and implementing core components; guides teams in building and operating production‑ready systems

Engages in architectural discussions, influences the roadmap, and personally owns and implements key projects and initiatives

Diagnosing and resolving complex technical issues in code and system design; drives innovations that improve availability, resilience, and performance through concrete code and configuration changes

Evaluates emerging technologies and prototypes pragmatic solutions; authoritatively moves successful experiments into production code

Mentors and develops engineers at all levels through paired programming, hands‑on code reviews, design walkthroughs, and technical coaching

Independently takes projects from initiation through delivery with minimal supervision, including authoring the majority of the implementation and delivering production‑quality code

Creates clarity from ambiguity through effective teamwork, problem decomposition, well‑documented code, and clear technical communication

Ability to take projects from beginning to end with little direct supervision

Teamwork and coordination skills with ability to create clarity from ambiguity

Qualification

C++Airplane performanceFlight operationsAgile software developmentCI/CD environmentsCloud hostingFORTRANSQLJavaC#Software architectureTechnical leadership

Required

10+ years of experience in software development utilizing Java, C++ or C#

10+ years of hands-on experience in developing and deploying software programs

6+ years of experience writing and testing software

5+ years of architecting software solutions

Experience with designing mobile apps and desktop solutions

Airplane performance domain knowledge required

C++ development experience is required on both MacOS and Windows; FORTRAN and SQL skills are a plus

Experience with agile software development, CI/CD environments, and cloud hosting of applications is desirable

Previous customer support and technical product management of airplane performance tools is desirable

Understanding of commercial, business and military airplane performance regulations a plus

Preferred

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

Leads activities to develop, document and maintain architecture, requirements, algorithms, interfaces and designs for software systems

Leads development of code and integration of complex software components into a fully functional software system

Provides technical leadership for software projects and leads software supplier management activities

Leads development, selection, tailoring and deployment of processes, tools and metrics

Plans, executes and documents software research and development projects

Serves as a subject matter expert for software domains, system-specific issues, processes and regulations

Tracks and evaluates software team and supplier performance to ensure product and process conformance to project plans and industry standards

Works under minimal direction