ELM Utility Services ยท 4 hours ago
Development Director ($100,000 - $160,000 Annually DOE)
Missoula, MT
Full-time
Hybrid
Director/Executive
$100K/yr - $160K/yr
7+ years expELM Utility Services is offering a great opportunity for a Development Director in the Missoula, Montana area. This technical leadership role focuses on architecture, engineering standards, code quality, and mentoring developers while working closely with IT leadership and stakeholders.
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Responsibilities
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
Qualification
Required
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)
Preferred
Strong JavaScript/TypeScript fundamentals and experience setting standards across a codebase (tooling, packages, testing, conventions)
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)
Azure experience (App Services, Azure SQL, auth/integration patterns)
Strong software engineering fundamentals: testing strategy, code quality, secure development practices
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)
Benefits
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
Company
ELM Utility Services
ELM Utility Services specializing in public utility locating helping utilities and contractors find and mark underground infrastructure.
1001-5000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
unknownKey Investors
Tiger Infrastructure Partners
2025-11-18Private Equity
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