Aviation Software Engineer Jobs in Boston, MA (NOW HIRING)

The Weather Company is the world’s leading weather provider, helping people and businesses make more informed decisions and take action in the face of weather. Together with advanced technology and AI, The Weather Company’s high-volume weather data, insights, advertising, and media solutions across the open web help people, businesses, and brands around the world prepare for and harness the power of weather in a scalable, privacy-forward way. The world’s most accurate forecaster globally, the company reaches hundreds of enterprise clients and more than 360 million monthly active users via its digital properties from The Weather Channel (weather.com) and Weather Underground (wunderground.com).

As a Full Stack Software Engineer at The Weather Company, you will join our commercial aviation engineering team and play a key role in building and evolving the products that dispatchers and pilots rely on every day to make critical, time-sensitive decisions. You will harness TWC's industry-leading weather and flight data to develop compelling, high-performance visualizations and the APIs and services that power them. Working across a diverse technology stack, from modern tools like React, Go, MongoDB, and AWS to established platforms in .NET/C# and SQL Server, you will have the opportunity to make a genuine impact on the safety and efficiency of commercial aviation worldwide. This is a hybrid role (3 days per week in office). Engineers on this team participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation following a structured training and onboarding period.

• Build and maintain full stack features across frontend and backend systems, delivering data-rich aviation applications used by dispatchers and pilots globally
• Develop high-performance, intuitive visualizations that transform complex weather and flight data into clear, actionable information for aviation professionals
• Design and extend RESTful APIs using Go and Node.js to serve real-time weather and flight data at scale
• Build responsive, performant frontend interfaces in React that meet the demanding needs of aviation operations environments
• Work with MongoDB and SQL Server to store, query, and manage large volumes of weather and flight data efficiently
• Contribute to established products built on .NET/C# and SQL Server, ensuring continuity and quality across the full product portfolio
• Deploy, monitor, and manage services on AWS, following cloud infrastructure and security best practices
• Actively use AI coding tools (e.g. GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude) to accelerate development velocity, improve code quality, and solve complex problems more effectively
• Write clean, well-tested, and well-documented code with a focus on performance, reliability, and maintainability
• Participate in code reviews, contributing constructive feedback and raising the bar for engineering quality across the team
• Collaborate closely with product managers, UX designers, and fellow engineers in an agile delivery environment
• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues across multiple systems, minimizing impact to aviation operations
• Participate in the team's 24x7 on-call rotation (after a structured ramp-up period), supporting system reliability and incident response

• 1-5 years of professional software development experience, with meaningful contributions to full stack applications
• Demonstrated, practical experience using AI tools (e.g. GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude, or similar) as part of your regular development workflow — in code generation, debugging, testing, or documentation
• Proficiency in React or a comparable modern frontend framework, with the ability to build and maintain complex, data-driven UIs
• Backend development experience in one or more of: Go, Node.js, or .NET/C#
• Working knowledge of both relational databases (SQL Server or equivalent) and NoSQL databases (MongoDB or equivalent)
• Solid understanding of REST API design and HTTP fundamentals
• Experience with Git-based version control workflows in a collaborative team environment
• A track record of writing readable, testable, maintainable code and taking ownership of quality
• Ability to work effectively across multiple codebases and adapt to varying technology stacks
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with an ability to diagnose and resolve issues in complex distributed systems

• Experience building AI-powered product features or integrating LLM APIs into applications
• Hands-on AWS experience (EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, CloudWatch, or similar services)
• Familiarity with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps practices
• Experience with legacy system modernization
• Background or interest in the commercial aviation or weather technology domain

Base Salary: $105,000 - $135,000

The base salary offered will take into account internal equity and may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region of work premises, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience, among other factors.

• Flexible Time Off program
• Hybrid work model
• Variety of medical insurance options including a $0 cost premium employee coverage
• Benefits effective day 1 of employment include competitive 401K match with no vesting requirement, national health, dental, and vision plans
• Progressive family plan benefits
• An opportunity to work for a global and industry-leading technology company
• Impactful work in a collaborative environment