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Associate Backend Software Engineer, Phantom Works
Boeing Company · 🇺🇸 3 Locations
Sponsorship verdict
Posting rules out sponsorship
The posting rules out sponsorship or requires citizenship/clearance.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 72 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 7 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Boeing Company paid sponsored hires in similar roles11 certified filings for “Mechanical System Design & Analysis Engineer” (Mechanical Engineers) in WA: $135k–$170k, median $143k. Most were filed at wage level IV (100%) — 4 lottery entries, ≈61% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Security clearance mentionedFrom the posting’s own wording.
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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The US Department of Labor certified 72 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 7 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
Associate Backend Software Engineer, Phantom Works Company: The Boeing Company The Boeing Company is currently seeking an Associate Backend Software Engineer (Level 2) to lead our Model-Based Engineering (MBE) software team in Berkeley, MO (St. Louis Area) . This position will focus on supporting the Boeing Defense Services (BDS) business organization. This position will focus on developing prototypes and new capabilities for web-applications and services. You will design APIs, create data processing and analytics pipelines, optimize SQL queries, and build up production-ready infrastructure. In this backend developer position, you’ll be helping shape the architecture and infrastructure needed to make our prototypes and minimum-viable products production ready. Some examples of the work involved may include but are not limited to researching and selecting technologies and programing languages to use, building reliable and performant server applications using those technologies and languages, and ensuring our applications can scale to support hundreds to thousands of users. If the applicant desires, this position can evolve into a full-stack role to also do frontend development. Join Us. Build the Future. Position Responsibilities: • Mastering your craft and learning continuously. • Work with a team to shape the architecture of several server 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. This position is expected to be 100% onsite. The selected candidate will be required to work onsite at one of the listed location options. Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/ Experience): • Bachelor’s Degree • Ability to obtain a U.S. Top Secret Security Clearance for which the U.S. Government requires U.S. Citizenship • 2+ years of experience in backend software development • 2+ years of experience with Go, Java, JavaScript, Python, or equivalent server language • 2+ years of experience with databases using SQL or PL/SQL • Experience with or working knowledge of concurrent computing and experience developing multi-threaded or multi-process software applications • Exposure to Agile process Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience): • 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 and 2+ years of related work experience OR Bachelor’s Degree and 6+ years of directly related work experience OR 10+ years of related, relevant experience • Active U.S. Top Secret Security Clearance • Strong experience with JavaScript frameworks: NodeJS, ReactJS • Strong experience with Go or Java • Basic experience with C++ • Experience with GitLab, CI / CD, Docker, Kubernetes • Experience with Kafka, NiFi, Redis, or RabbitMQ • Experience with GitLab, GitLab Runner, CI / CD, Docker, Kubernetes • Experience developing RESTful APIs for complex datasets • Experience leading projects • AWS cloud experience • 3+ years of experience in infrastructure development • Understanding microservices, client-server architecture, event-driven architecture, domain-driven design (DDD), and other modern architectural styles to build robust and adapt