Software Engineer 4 (contract) @ Boeing - Seal Beach, CA

• Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS) is seeking Senior Experienced Web Development Engineers for their Satellite Systems Division located in Seal Beach, CA. We are seeking engineers that are passionate about space and motivated to be part of a multi-disciplined, collaborative engineering environment that supports the design, development, and implementation of software for Boeing built government space products!
• This is an opportunity to work in a rapid development environment using modern technology, architecture, and tools. We need your help to develop a new cloud-based and containerized front-end web application with additional interfaces. Our team works within an agile methodology using a CI/CD environment; integrated with automated testing, vulnerability, & quality scanning capabilities. The software team is using javascript, HTML, and Python languages; using the Django framework; and with a complex SQL based backend database.
• You will directly partner with customer counterparts and program management to deliver the highest value capabilities, performing demonstrations along the way. The role requires a creativity and you will be encouraged to automate manual processes and workflows where possible. The candidate should possess excellent communications skills and work well in a team environment to support the needs of the Integrated Product Team.
• This senior position requires proven experience within the software ecosystem, a unique background of project experience, and the clear exhibition of superior judgment and decision making to engineer new solutions and capabilities. Critical thinking and troubleshooting skills are required!
  

Primary Responsibilities & Expectations:

• Develop and maintain requirements, architectures, algorithms, interfaces, and designs for software systems.
• Write software code and integrate completed software components into a fully functional software system.
• Perform software development in the agile methodology utilizing a DevSecOps environment where you will support continuous improvement.
• Build software test procedures and environments, execute the tests and document results to ensure software system requirements are met.
• Support the presentation of progress demonstrations to customer representatives and satellite program leadership.
• Boeing is the world's largest aerospace company and leading manufacturer of commercial airplanes and defense, space and security systems. We are engineers and technicians. Skilled scientists and thinkers. Bold innovators and dreamers. Join us, and you can build something better for yourself, for our customers and for the world.
• This position is expected to be 100% onsite.
  

• U.S. Top Secret Clearance and a current Tier 5 (T5), formerly known as a Single Scope Background Investigation (SSBI) with Counterintelligence Polygraph is required.
  

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):

• MUST HAVE Bachelor’s, Master’s or Doctorate degree from an accredited course of study, in Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science or another related field.
• MUST HAVE Active U.S. Top Secret/SCI Security Clearance with Counterintelligence polygraph.
• MUST HAVE 7 or more years of experience with the Java, and/or Python software languages.
• Experience with front-end web application development.
• Software development experience in a collaborative team environment using agile principles and a structured development process including code reviews and DevOps processes/tools.
• Experience using team collaboration tools including Git, JIRA, Confluence, Artifactory, etc.
  

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):

• Current CompTIA Security+ certification.
• Experience using SonarQube and/or Coverity to manage code quality.
• Experience with cloud computing and virtualization technologies and containerized applications and frameworks (Jupyter, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm).
• Experience with Python numerical tools (numpy, scipy), GIS tools for python & map front-ends (OpenLayers/Cesium).
• Experience with databases using PostgreSQL, including Geospatial, Multi-Level Security, Alembic/migration and/or Oracle Spatial/Database Vault capabilities.