diff --git a/airflow/settings.py b/airflow/settings.py
index 479694d92b0702..30850ed28d9577 100644
--- a/airflow/settings.py
+++ b/airflow/settings.py
@@ -158,12 +158,35 @@ def configure_orm(disable_connection_pool=False):
     log.debug("Setting up DB connection pool (PID %s)", os.getpid())
     global engine
     global Session
-    engine_args = {}
+    engine_args = prepare_engine_args(disable_connection_pool)
+
+    # Allow the user to specify an encoding for their DB otherwise default
+    # to utf-8 so jobs & users with non-latin1 characters can still use us.
+    engine_args['encoding'] = conf.get('core', 'SQL_ENGINE_ENCODING', fallback='utf-8')
+
+    if conf.has_option('core', 'sql_alchemy_connect_args'):
+        connect_args = conf.getimport('core', 'sql_alchemy_connect_args')
+    else:
+        connect_args = {}
+
+    engine = create_engine(SQL_ALCHEMY_CONN, connect_args=connect_args, **engine_args)
+    setup_event_handlers(engine)
+
+    Session = scoped_session(sessionmaker(
+        autocommit=False,
+        autoflush=False,
+        bind=engine,
+        expire_on_commit=False,
+    ))
+
 
+def prepare_engine_args(disable_connection_pool=False):
+    """Prepare SQLAlchemy engine args"""
+    engine_args = {}
     pool_connections = conf.getboolean('core', 'SQL_ALCHEMY_POOL_ENABLED')
     if disable_connection_pool or not pool_connections:
         engine_args['poolclass'] = NullPool
-        log.debug("settings.configure_orm(): Using NullPool")
+        log.debug("settings.prepare_engine_args(): Using NullPool")
     elif 'sqlite' not in SQL_ALCHEMY_CONN:
         # Pool size engine args not supported by sqlite.
         # If no config value is defined for the pool size, select a reasonable value.
@@ -195,30 +218,13 @@ def configure_orm(disable_connection_pool=False):
         # https://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/13/core/pooling.html#disconnect-handling-pessimistic
         pool_pre_ping = conf.getboolean('core', 'SQL_ALCHEMY_POOL_PRE_PING', fallback=True)
 
-        log.debug("settings.configure_orm(): Using pool settings. pool_size=%d, max_overflow=%d, "
+        log.debug("settings.prepare_engine_args(): Using pool settings. pool_size=%d, max_overflow=%d, "
                   "pool_recycle=%d, pid=%d", pool_size, max_overflow, pool_recycle, os.getpid())
         engine_args['pool_size'] = pool_size
         engine_args['pool_recycle'] = pool_recycle
         engine_args['pool_pre_ping'] = pool_pre_ping
         engine_args['max_overflow'] = max_overflow
-
-    # Allow the user to specify an encoding for their DB otherwise default
-    # to utf-8 so jobs & users with non-latin1 characters can still use us.
-    engine_args['encoding'] = conf.get('core', 'SQL_ENGINE_ENCODING', fallback='utf-8')
-
-    if conf.has_option('core', 'sql_alchemy_connect_args'):
-        connect_args = conf.getimport('core', 'sql_alchemy_connect_args')
-    else:
-        connect_args = {}
-
-    engine = create_engine(SQL_ALCHEMY_CONN, connect_args=connect_args, **engine_args)
-    setup_event_handlers(engine)
-
-    Session = scoped_session(
-        sessionmaker(autocommit=False,
-                     autoflush=False,
-                     bind=engine,
-                     expire_on_commit=False))
+    return engine_args
 
 
 def dispose_orm():
diff --git a/airflow/www/app.py b/airflow/www/app.py
index 21d7d3b19e0ef6..5338dddcc17b52 100644
--- a/airflow/www/app.py
+++ b/airflow/www/app.py
@@ -82,6 +82,9 @@ def create_app(config=None, testing=False, app_name="Airflow"):
     if config:
         flask_app.config.from_mapping(config)
 
+    if 'SQLALCHEMY_ENGINE_OPTIONS' not in flask_app.config:
+        flask_app.config['SQLALCHEMY_ENGINE_OPTIONS'] = settings.prepare_engine_args()
+
     # Configure the JSON encoder used by `|tojson` filter from Flask
     flask_app.json_encoder = AirflowJsonEncoder
 
diff --git a/tests/www/test_app.py b/tests/www/test_app.py
index 3e46abf82616e4..198a73ed1f8259 100644
--- a/tests/www/test_app.py
+++ b/tests/www/test_app.py
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 import unittest
 from unittest import mock
 
+import pytest
 from werkzeug.routing import Rule
 from werkzeug.test import create_environ
 from werkzeug.wrappers import Response
@@ -195,3 +196,22 @@ def debug_view():
 
         self.assertEqual(b"success", response.get_data())
         self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 200)
+
+    @conf_vars({
+        ('core', 'sql_alchemy_pool_enabled'): 'True',
+        ('core', 'sql_alchemy_pool_size'): '3',
+        ('core', 'sql_alchemy_max_overflow'): '5',
+        ('core', 'sql_alchemy_pool_recycle'): '120',
+        ('core', 'sql_alchemy_pool_pre_ping'): 'True',
+    })
+    @mock.patch("airflow.www.app.app", None)
+    @pytest.mark.backend("mysql", "postgres")
+    def test_should_set_sqlalchemy_engine_options(self):
+        app = application.cached_app(testing=True)
+        engine_params = {
+            'pool_size': 3,
+            'pool_recycle': 120,
+            'pool_pre_ping': True,
+            'max_overflow': 5
+        }
+        self.assertEqual(app.config['SQLALCHEMY_ENGINE_OPTIONS'], engine_params)