Full Stack Web Developer

Full Stack Web Developer
Non-Union Position
Applications Support Group 1; Portland, Oregon (US-OR)
Hybrid schedule available for Oregon & Washington residents.
Regular FT, Exempt
Posting # 5765
About Us:
At NW Natural, we offer more than rewarding career opportunities and a vibrant, inclusive work culture. We invite you to join us in providing safe and reliable utility services and renewable energy to better the lives of the communities we serve. Our vision is to be the leader in service excellence, innovation and environmental stewardship for our customers, while building on our strengths as a trusted energy provider and environmental leader for our industry.
In addition to environmental stewardship, we’re also deeply committed to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at NW Natural. Our DEI Council started 21 years ago, and today we continue to foster a culture where all employees can experience a sense of belonging, shared purpose and possibility.
NOTE:
This hybrid position is based at our headquarters in downtown Portland, Oregon. Candidates must reside within commuting distance of the office or be willing to relocate to the Portland metropolitan area. Employees are required to work onsite Tuesdays through Thursdays each week, with remote work flexibility on Mondays and Fridays, subject to business needs. This schedule supports collaboration, connection, and team engagement while providing flexibility for focused remote work.
Position Summary:
The Senior Full Stack Developer designs, develops, integrates, deploys, supports, and continuously improves enterprise web applications and digital solutions. This is more than a software development role. The position serves as a trusted technical advisor, application owner, collaborator, and delivery coordinator across business stakeholders, IT&S teams, contractors, offshore resources, and third-party vendors.
Role Context
The position combines hands-on full stack application engineering with day-to-day business partnership, operational ownership, technical leadership, and coordination of work across distributed delivery teams. The developer works closely with the Web Team Lead and Enterprise Applications Sr. Manager to align solutions, priorities, support activities, and delivery outcomes with enterprise standards and business needs.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
Full Stack Engineering and Solution Delivery
* Design, develop, test, build, deploy, troubleshoot, and maintain secure, scalable, and supportable web applications, APIs, integrations, and supporting services.
* Contribute across the complete software development lifecycle, including discovery, requirements, design, estimation, development, testing, release, monitoring, incident response, and continuous improvement.
* Translate functional and technical requirements into maintainable solutions that align with enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, accessibility, and operational support standards.
* Perform and participate in code reviews, technical design reviews, unit testing, system testing, and user acceptance testing support.
* Document solution designs, integrations, deployment procedures, support processes, and technical decisions for business, IT&S, and vendor audiences.
Business and Stakeholder Partnership
* Act as a day-to-day technical point of contact for supported web applications and digital platforms.
* Work directly with business stakeholders to understand operational needs, clarify requirements, prioritize requests, evaluate options, and communicate technical recommendations in clear business terms.
* Provide transparent status, risk, dependency, and issue communications to stakeholders, application owners, project teams, and leadership.
* Help identify opportunities to improve customer and employee experiences, business processes, application reliability, and support efficiency.
Team, Vendor, and Resource Coordination
* Collaborate with the Web Team Lead and Enterprise Applications Manager on priorities, technical direction, delivery planning, operational issues, and platform health.
* Coordinate work performed by internal staff, staff-augmentation resources, offshore development teams, system integrators, and third-party vendors.
* Break work into actionable assignments, support estimation and sequencing, clarify technical expectations, remove delivery blockers, and verify the quality and completeness of deliverables.
* Support onboarding, knowledge transfer, documentation, mentoring, and review activities that reduce single-person dependencies and improve long-term supportability.
Cross-Functional IT&S Collaboration
* Partner with Enterprise Architecture, Cybersecurity, Cloud/Infrastructure, Identity, Networking, Data & Analytics, Service Management, Quality Assurance, and other Enterprise Applications teams to deliver and support integrated solutions.
* Coordinate technical dependencies and production support activities that cross application, API, identity, data, network, hosting, and vendor boundaries.
* Participate in architecture, security, change, release, and operational readiness reviews as appropriate.
Application Ownership and Operational Support
* Promote the reliability, performance, security, observability, accessibility, maintainability, and lifecycle health of assigned applications and services.
* Lead or support incident triage, root-cause analysis, defect resolution, production validation, scheduled maintenance, and follow-up improvement actions.
* Monitor application and integration health, identify technical debt and operational risks, and recommend prioritized remediation or modernization work.
* Provide planned after-hours support for production releases, maintenance, or critical incidents when required.
Qualifications:
* Minimum of 3 years of professional experience delivering and supporting full stack applications. Minimum of 5 years of experience required for level 3.
* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
* Demonstrated experience partnering with non-technical business stakeholders and technical teams to move work from need identification through production support.
* Experience coordinating work across internal staff, contractors, offshore resources, or third-party delivery partners.
* Proven communication, critical-thinking, troubleshooting, facilitation, documentation, and organizational skills.
* Ability to work independently, manage competing priorities, and drive work to completion while escalating risks and decisions appropriately.
Technical Skills
* Advanced C# and current supported .NET / ASP.NET Core development experience
* Design, development, security, integration, testing, and support of RESTful APIs
* JavaScript and TypeScript; HTML5; CSS3/SASS; and a modern front-end framework such as React, Angular, or Next.js
* Enterprise or headless web CMS solutions, preferably Contentstack or a comparable platform
* Microsoft Azure application services, including App Service, Functions, Azure SQL, Key Vault, Application Insights, and Azure Monitor
* OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, Entra ID, and authentication/authorization patterns
* SQL Server, T-SQL, relational data design, and query troubleshooting
* Git source control; Azure DevOps or equivalent work management; CI/CD and release pipelines
* Application troubleshooting, logging, monitoring, production support, and root-cause analysis
* Secure development, code review, unit testing, technical documentation, and Agile delivery practices
Preferred
* Contentstack CMS, including content modeling, delivery APIs, environments, webhooks, and deployment patterns
* GraphQL API development or consumption
* API management or gateway solutions such as NGINX or Azure API Management
* API governance, versioning, security policies, developer portals, and lifecycle mana