Microsoft Developer - Innovation & Digital Factory - Akron FirstEnergy Headquarters

What will you do: As a Microsoft Developer at FirstEnergy, you will join a leading edge, collaborative development team that works across the entire organization - enhancing existing applications, remediating production and technical issues, and building new business applications. Day-to-day work includes designing, developing, testing, and deploying full-stack solutions using Microsoft technologies, modern web frameworks, Agile delivery practices, and CI/CD pipelines.

• Enhance, troubleshoot, modernize, and support existing business applications while delivering new features that improve usability, reliability, and workflow.
• Build, test, deploy, and support full-stack web applications and reusable components across on-premises IIS and Microsoft Azure environments.
• Participate in requirements reviews, design discussions, code reviews, testing, release planning, Agile delivery, CI/CD, and production support activities.
• Explore practical uses of AI-assisted development and agentic models to improve delivery workflows, developer productivity, code quality, and solution support.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline; equivalent experience may be considered.
• Professional application development experience using .NET, C#, .NET Core, SQL, and modern web frameworks such as Angular or Blazor.
• Expected experience by level: Level II - 2 years; Level III - 4 years; Level IV - 7 years.
• Experience working and developing alongside relational databases.
• Experience designing, enhancing, supporting, or modernizing maintainable applications using sound software engineering practices, design patterns, and reusable components.
• Experience deploying or supporting applications hosted in Microsoft Azure, including Windows or Linux App Service Plans, and/or on premises in IIS.
• Experience with Agile delivery practices and development tools such as Azure DevOps, GitHub, GitLab, Jira, or similar platforms for source control, work management, builds, deployments, and defect tracking.
• Strong written & verbal communication, collaboration, prioritization, and production-support skills, including the ability to work across teams, business partners, and technical workstreams and participate in on-call rotation.

Nice to Haves:

• Experience with non-relational databases.
• Experience with .NET MAUI and/or mobile application development.
• Experience using modern developer productivity tools, including coding assistants, automation, and integrated platform capabilities to accelerate design, development, testing, documentation, and support activities.

FirstEnergy at a Glance

We are a forward-thinking electric utility powered by a diverse team of employees committed to making customers’ lives brighter, the environment better and our communities stronger.

FirstEnergy (NYSE: FE) is dedicated to safety, reliability, and operational excellence. Headquartered in Akron, Ohio, FirstEnergy includes one of the nation’s largest investor-owned electric systems, more than 24,500 miles of transmission lines that connect the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic regions, and a regulated generating fleet with a total capacity of 3,780 megawatts.