Millennium Space Systems · 18 hours ago
Lead Back-End Software Engineer (Experienced or Senior)
Berkeley, MO
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$146K/yr - $198K/yr
7+ years expThe Boeing Company is currently seeking a Lead Back-End Software Engineer to lead their Model-Based Engineering Software team located in Berkeley, Missouri. This role focuses on developing prototypes and capabilities for web applications and services, including designing APIs and optimizing SQL queries.
AerospaceSpace Travel
No H1B
Security Clearance RequiredU.S. Citizen Only
Responsibilities
Leads 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
Qualification
Required
Active Secret Security Clearance
7+ years of experience in backend software development
7+ years of experience with Go, Java, or equivalent server language
5+ years of experience interfacing databases using SQL or PL/SQL
5+ years of experience in infrastructure development
Exposure to Agile process
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
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
Experience 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
Benefits
Health insurance
Flexible spending accounts
Health savings accounts
Retirement savings plans
Life and disability insurance programs
Programs that provide for both paid and unpaid time away from work
Company
Millennium Space Systems
Millennium Space Systems, a provider of agile, flight-proven small-satellite solutions.
501-1000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
unknown2018-08-16Acquired
Leadership Team
Robert Jacobsen
Chief Financial Officer
Shasta Noble
Chief Financial Officer
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