Senior Web Developer

Location: Hybrid in Chicago, IL, United States

Company

hirify.global is a women-led energy transformation firm focused on clean energy solutions, energy efficiency, load flexibility, electrification, and carbon reduction for utilities.

What you will do

• Own web applications, websites, CMS platforms, APIs, and integrations from requirements discovery and design through deployment, production support, modernization, and retirement.
• Translate business, marketing, content, and UX requirements into secure, scalable, accessible, maintainable digital solutions.
• Evaluate architectures, technologies, hosting models, integrations, and delivery approaches against business and technical requirements.
• Partner with Marketing, Creative, UX, business stakeholders, vendors, clients, cloud, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and architecture teams.
• Plan technical scope, estimates, timelines, dependencies, risks, acceptance criteria, budgets, and implementation approaches across concurrent projects and support work.
• Maintain engineering excellence through SDLC governance, source control, automated testing and deployment, monitoring, documentation, incident response, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• Five or more years of progressively responsible professional web or software development experience, including production-system responsibility; equivalent demonstrated capability may be considered.
• Ownership of a production application or service from requirements and design through deployment and operational support.
• Proficiency in one or more modern programming languages and development frameworks, with transferable engineering knowledge.
• Professional experience with content-management systems, application integrations, databases, APIs, and authentication or identity services.
• Professional experience developing and manually and automatically testing production web applications for WCAG Level AA conformance.
• Experience applying secure-development practices and resolving application security, dependency, performance, reliability, or supportability issues.
• Use of structured SDLC, source control, peer review, testing, documentation, change, release, and production-support practices.
• Strong written and verbal communication, technical documentation, and communication with nontechnical stakeholders.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, information systems, or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and substantial professional experience.
• Working knowledge of modern web engineering, client/server architecture, semantic markup, styling, scripting or programming, frameworks, APIs, databases, identity, caching, content delivery, integrations, cloud services, containers, observability, networking, resilience, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery.
• Ability to troubleshoot across application, service, data, identity, platform, infrastructure, network, and external-dependency boundaries.
• Experience with Figma, design systems, component libraries, responsive breakpoints, design specifications, visual accuracy, brand consistency, responsive behavior, and customer interaction.

Nice to have

• Experience across multiple content-management, application, hosting, or cloud ecosystems.
• Experience with the organization’s current CMS, managed hosting provider, cloud platform, source-control system, delivery tooling, and observability stack; comparable technology experience is valued.
• Experience modernizing legacy web estates, migrating content or applications, introducing headless or API-first patterns, or rationalizing redundant technologies.
• Experience in regulated, public-sector, accessibility-sensitive, or multi-jurisdiction environments.
• Experience mentoring developers, defining standards, leading technical reviews, and improving engineering processes without direct supervisory authority.
• Relevant cloud, security, accessibility, development, or architecture certifications.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment in a hybrid work arrangement.
• Paid vacation, paid sick time, paid holidays, parental leave, and an employee assistance program.
• Medical, dental, vision, commuter, and supplemental benefits.
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match.
• Employees may be eligible for a discretionary annual bonus; final compensation depends on experience, education, and location.
• Employment is contingent on a comprehensive background check and reference check; a pre-employment drug screen may apply.