Lead Software Engineer

Boeing

Lead Software Engineer at Boeing's Phantom Works team focusing on software development for air and space systems. Collaborate in an Agile environment to ensure high-quality software delivery.

Posted 7/12/2026full-timeBerkeley • Arizona, California, Colorado, Montana, Virginia • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $198,050 - $286,350 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in software architecture, agile delivery, and DevSecOps practices, ensuring integration readiness and quality through effective team leadership and collaboration. Proficient in managing software requirements, testing strategies, and delivery metrics to enhance predictability and performance.

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Software Architecture ManagementAgile Delivery LeadershipDevSecOps Lifecycle ExperienceCI/CD Tools ProficiencyRequirements Analysis and Translation

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Hard Skills

Software ArchitectureAgile MethodologiesDevSecOpsCI/CDConfiguration ManagementScripting LanguagesTest AutomationIntegration ContractsDelivery MetricsRequirements Translation

Soft Skills

Team LeadershipCoaching and MentoringCollaborationProblem SolvingCommunication

Tools & Technologies

GitJenkinsJIRACollaboratorBeyond CompareVersionOne

Certifications & Qualifications

Bachelor’s DegreeTop Secret U.S. Security Clearance

Industry Keywords

Integration and TestSoftware DevelopmentTest StrategiesVelocity MetricsTechnical Debt

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

JenkinsPython

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own and maintain the software architecture with focus on interface clarity, stability, and versioning to minimize integration risk, with a focus on production type software that is easily maintainable.
Partner with appropriate stakeholders to inform system definition and oversee 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.
Manage supplier/subcontractor software deliverables to ensure they meet team processes and integration requirements.
Lead the software engineering team’s agile delivery: facilitate sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews/retrospectives, and remove impediments to flow.
Serve as the Agile/Delivery lead for software—own backlog prioritization with product/system owners, define sprint goals, and ensure timely delivery of integration-ready increments.
Define, document, and enforce software integration contracts (ICDs or equivalent living artifacts), data models, and message definitions in coordination with Integration & Test and Systems leads.
Ensure software is designed for testability: require unit, component, integration, SIL/HIL test artifacts with code deliveries, include observability hooks, and ensure failures are diagnosable.
Lead DevSecOps and CI/CD practices for the team: ensure pipelines support repeatable builds, automated testing, artifact traceability, and consistent deployments across dev, integration, and test environments.
Collaborate with Integration & Test to align delivery cadence to integration increments and controlled configuration baselines.
Drive verification & validation execution for software components: support development of test strategies, analyze test results, and triage defects with the team.
Establish and track delivery metrics (velocity, cycle time, quality metrics, technical debt) and use them to improve predictability and quality.
Coach and mentor engineers on agile practices, test automation, CI/CD, code quality, and observability.
Contribute to risk and issue management that affects software delivery and integration readiness; escalate when necessary to protect integration milestones.
Document integration results, test findings, and provide inputs for design reviews and readiness assessments.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s Degree
Active Top Secret U.S. Security Clearance for which the US Government requires US Citizenship
5+ years of experience in leading efforts in analyzing and translating requirements into system architecture, hardware and software designs and interface specifications
Experience as an Agile Systems or Software Development Team Lead
5+ years of experience with the DevSecOps lifecycle
5+ years of experience of DevOps experience (Git, Jenkins, or other CI/CD tools)
5+ years of experience with configuration management and collaboration tools such as (or similar to) Git, JIRA, Collaborator, Beyond Compare, and VersionOne
1+ years of Proficient with scripting/programming languages used for automation and testing (e.g., Python, Bash)

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
Flexible spending accounts
Health savings accounts
Retirement savings plans
Life and disability insurance programs
Paid time off