Principal Developer-Builder Job at Boeing (Seattle, Washington)

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. We're looking for a Principal Developer-Builder (Level 5-Individual Contributor) who will own the end-to-end delivery of a product capability, helping design the solution and leading a small team of developers to build it. You will work closely with Product, Design, and Technical Leads to understand the holistic vision and strategy of the product, and partner with a Product Manager and Designer to help execute the daily operations of your team. You will be accountable for the quality of what your team delivers, ensuring that it’s in line with the technical strategy.

Job Responsibility

Building full-stack, production-grade, cloud-native applications: frontend interfaces, backend services, APIs, and the integrations that connect them across complex enterprise environments
Writing and reviewing code across multiple languages and paradigms
Designing event-driven and microservices architectures that can scale, evolve, and be operated by teams beyond the ones that built them
Integrating AI, ML or LLM capabilities into your product
Implementing CI/CD pipelines and delivery automation that give teams the confidence to ship frequently
Making day-to-day architecture decisions within your product and escalating the right ones to the leadership team when they have broader implications
Identifying technical risk early and surfacing it clearly before it becomes a delivery problem
Generating ideas, failing fast, and demonstrating with key stakeholders
Driving knowledge sharing across teams and the broader technical group
Serve as Builder Lead – guiding, coaching, instructing a small team of developers (ex: organizing work, breaking down tasks, pairing on hard problems, and keeping the team moving)
Guide and drive adoption of AI assisted development methods (such as agentic coding or SDD)
Uplift developers through code review, pairing, and day-to-day technical mentorship
Serve as a technical point of contact for your product capability — representing the work clearly to your product, design, and technical leads
Adapt quickly to change and shift focus as required to meet product needs
Contribute to and provide technical documentation for your area of responsibility

Requirements

7+ years of professional experience in an application development role, performing core activities across the software lifecycle- from requirements gathering and design to coding, testing, integrations, deployments, and production support
7+ years proven experience with full-stack web development
7+ years of experience with modern software product development, integration, and delivery
4+ years of experience supporting an AI or ML development team
2+ years of experience in a leadership role (i.e., manager, project manager, team lead, etc.)

Nice to have

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field
Advanced degree such as a Master’s in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or a related discipline
Strong proficiency in at least one modern programming language and framework commonly used for production software development
Experience integrating AI, ML, or LLM capabilities into software applications
Experience building or integrating AI/ML/LLM-powered product features in production
Experience with modern cloud platforms and application delivery tooling
Experience designing, building, testing, and maintaining scalable cloud-native applications
Hands-on experience with CI/CD, automated testing, version control, and delivery practices
Experience working in complex enterprise environments with distributed systems, legacy modernization, multi-team dependencies
Experience making architecture tradeoff decisions balancing scalability, reliability, security, maintainability, latency, cost, and delivery speed
Demonstrated ability to collaborate across Product, Design, Engineering, and Operations
Demonstrated ability to coach and uplift other engineers through pairing, code review, technical mentorship, and knowledge sharing
Experience working in software development in the aerospace or other industrial industry preferred

What we offer

Competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities
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
Generous company match to your 401(k)
Industry-leading tuition assistance program pays your institution directly
Fertility, adoption, and surrogacy benefits
Up to $10,000 gift match when you support your favorite nonprofit organizations

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