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Development Director ($100,000 - $160,000 Annually DOE)

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Development Director ($100,000 - $160,000 Annually DOE) ELM Utility Services |

ELM Utility Services | Posted Jan 13, 2026

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Full-time

Negotiable

Master (>10 yrs)

ELM Utility Services, with a team of over 1300 employees nationwide, is offering a great opportunity for a Development Director in the Missoula, Montana area. This position can be offered as a remote position to the right candidate pending interview. This is a

technical leadership role —focused on architecture, engineering standards, code quality, and mentoring developers.

You will work closely with IT leadership and stakeholders to ensure the team builds reliable, secure, maintainable systems that support operations at scale.

Our Total Rewards Package Includes:

Voluntary Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability, FSA, H.S.A., and Teladoc.

Company Paid Life Insurance up to $50,000

Paid-Time Off (PTO) for vacation and sick time purposes

6 Paid Holidays

401(k) plan

Bonuses for milestone anniversaries

Annual reviews with potential for increases

Competitive pay based on experience

Long history of stable employment and promoting from within

Opportunity to lead and modernize production systems with meaningful operational impact

Own technical direction for application development: architecture patterns, service boundaries, integration approaches, and engineering standards

Lead design reviews and establish practical patterns for reliability, performance, and secure development

Define and maintain engineering quality bars: testing expectations, code review practices, CI/CD standards, and release readiness

Support UI engineering standards: reusable components, accessibility basics, performance profiling, and user-centric error handling

Establish patterns for API consumption in JS/TS apps (typed clients, error/retry strategy, telemetry hooks)

Oversee backend/API practices (service design, auth patterns, versioning, observability) and ensure the JS/TS layer integrates cleanly

Ensure strong SQL Server practices: query quality, stored procedures, schema changes, and performance fundamentals

Partner with data/analytics and operations teams to ensure backend capabilities support operational workflows and reporting needs

Drive best practices for deploying and operating services in

Microsoft Azure

(App Services, Azure SQL, identity/integration patterns)

Establish/maintain CI/CD standards (Azure DevOps or equivalent): build/release pipelines, environment promotion, rollback discipline, secrets management

Improve operational readiness: logging, monitoring, alerting, incident response handoffs, post-incident improvements

Mentor and grow developers through coaching, pairing, code review, and technical training

Create an engineering culture of clarity, quality, and ownership with a bias toward pragmatic execution

Support technical hiring and participate in architecture and senior-level technical interviews

Qualifications:

7+ years of professional software engineering experience with demonstrated technical leadership (lead engineer, principal engineer, architect, or hands‑on engineering manager)

Proven experience building and operating production systems (mobile/web applications, APIs/services, data-backed systems)

Technical Skills (strongly preferred)

React Native + Expo

(or strong React/web experience with ability to lead mobile practices)

Experience designing and integrating

RESTful

in C#

SQL Server and T‑SQL competence (schemas, stored procs, performance fundamentals)

Frontend testing frameworks (Jest, React Testing Library, Detox for RN, etc.) and mobile release pipelines

Experience with ETL/data workflows and performance tuning

Familiarity with GIS‑related systems or spatial data concepts (helpful in our domain)

WE ARE AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

About the company

ELM Utility Services

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