Senior Software Engineer & Technical Leader

Elm-Utility-Services; Missoula (MT); Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

Life Insurance

401(k)

PTO + Holidays

Bonus milestones

Job summary

ELM Utility Services seeks a Software Engineer IV to shape architecture, own critical systems, and lead cross-team initiatives. You will mentor engineers, drive scalable, observable distributed platforms, and collaborate with product and leadership to deliver high-impact solutions.

Join a team delivering enterprise-class software that supports safety, regulatory compliance, and efficient field operations. You will influence technical direction, improve SDLC practices, and mentor teams while

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Enterprise-scale design and delivery experience.
• Expert in C# and .NET development.
• Strong API design and distributed systems knowledge.
• Experience with SQL Server and cloud-native technologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead large-scale technical initiatives and epics from concept through development and operational support.
• Provide technical leadership across multiple teams and domains, helping drive architectural consistency and long-term maintainability.
• Mentor and coach engineers across the organization, elevating technical capability and engineering maturity.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Team Leads, Architects, and Executive Leadership to align technical solutions with business outcomes.
• Design and implement scalable, resilient, and observable distributed systems and integrations.
• Drive improvements in engineering standards, SDLC practices, CI/CD pipelines, testing strategies and operational excellence.
• Champion best practices around performance, security, compliance, resiliency, and maintainability.
• Participate in technical design reviews, backlog elaboration, and cross-team solutioning efforts.
• Translate complex technical concepts into clear communication appropriate for both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Identify systemic issues, technical debt, and architectural risks, and help lead pragmatic modernization efforts.
• Contribute hands-on code and technical implementation where appropriate.
• Support incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement activities for production systems.
• Promote a culture of ownership, accountability, collaboration and continuous learning.

Skills

Ownership

Systems thinking

Mentoring

API design

Distributed systems

C#/.NET

SQL Server

Azure

Education

B.S. in Computer Science

7+ years experience

Tools

Azure DevOps

Git

Datadog

Azure Monitor

Job description

ELM Utility Services seeks a Software Engineer IV to shape architecture, own critical systems, and lead cross-team initiatives. You will mentor engineers, drive scalable, observable distributed platforms, and collaborate with product and leadership to deliver high-impact solutions.

Join a team delivering enterprise-class software that supports safety, regulatory compliance, and efficient field operations. You will influence technical direction, improve SDLC practices, and mentor teams while