Entry Level Full Stack Java Developer Jobs in Ohio

Here's the honest version:

In 1982, Steve and Jane Alt started a small spouting company in Glandorf, Ohio, on a simple idea: honest work, done with integrity, was worth building a life around. Forty-plus years later, that company is Altimate Outdoor — and what started in spouting has grown into one of Ohio's premier outdoor living builders. StruXure pergolas, custom cabanas, outdoor kitchens, MagnaTrack retractable screens, screened-in patios. Two showrooms (Glandorf and Powell), nearly 60 people, five-star reviews, and a team that takes the work personally.

Ross and Jill Alt carry that legacy forward today, openly rooted in their Christian faith and the belief that every person — every craftsman, every designer, every team member, every family we serve — deserves to be treated that way. We're not asking you to share that faith. We are asking you to be the kind of person who can thrive in a company built on it.

We run on EOS. We have two 2026 company-wide goals that say it plainly: execute our technology strategy and execute our company-wide AI strategy. We can't do either without the right person owning the software side of the business.

That's this role.

We're hiring our first full-time, in-house developer to own our internal and customer-facing web applications. Not a ticket-taker. Not someone who lights up about AI prompts and calls it engineering. A real builder who can sit next to a designer for thirty minutes, watch them fight the system, and then go build the thing that fixes it.

If that sounds like the role you've been waiting for, keep reading.

How we operate — The Altimate Way

We have five values. They're not posters on a wall. They're how we make decisions, how we hire, and how we'll evaluate you.

"We serve with integrity and dedication, with optimism, persistently. That is the Altimate Way." — Jim Ledbetter

Translated into how this role gets done:

• Service. Humbly put others first. You serve the team before you serve yourself. You build for the designer who has to live in the screen all day, not for the architecture diagram that looks good in a portfolio.
• Integrity. Do the right thing, especially when no one is watching. You ship code you'd be proud to put your name on whether anyone reads it or not. You own mistakes quickly and cleanly. You don't quietly cut corners.
• Dedication. Act with honor and excellence. You treat this like a calling, not a job. You bring your best on the days no one's watching. You finish the install before you leave the site.
• Optimism. Hope in the face of challenge. When a deploy breaks or a project goes sideways, your default is "here's what we're going to do," not "here's why this happened."
• Persistence. Show up and push on. You stay with the hard problems. You come back to a feature until it's right, not just done.

And we live by a pledge: if something isn't right, we make it right. Every time. No exceptions. Apply that to software and you've got the job description in one sentence.

What you'll actually be doing:

You'll own the web applications our team relies on every single day — sales, designers, installers, operations, leadership, and eventually our customers. That includes our CRM-style internal system, the integrations that pull leads in from our website, dealer networks, Google, Houzz, Angi, and the rest, the dashboards leadership uses to make decisions, and the AI-driven workflows we're going to build to keep our team focused on customers instead of paperwork.

You'll have a Rock or two on every quarterly plan. You'll be in the room when leadership decides what to build, what to buy, and what to leave alone. You'll see your work change how actual humans do their jobs.

A real week might look like this:

• Shipping a feature that takes twenty clicks a day off a designer's quote workflow
• Hunting down why one specific lead source isn't recording properly — and fixing it
• Sitting in on a production meeting to understand a workflow before you build anything for it
• Pushing a release at 6:30 a.m. so it's done before the team logs in — because you know better than to break Monday morning lead intake
• Writing a one-pager explaining the tradeoffs on a build-vs-buy decision so leadership can actually make it
• Driving up to Glandorf or Powell once a quarter to see the work, meet the team, and watch how things really happen

Who this is for:

You're probably a great fit if:

• You've shipped real production software that real people depend on, and you've been on the hook when it broke
• You can talk to a non-technical person without making them feel stupid, and turn what they say into a buildable spec
• You like the idea of being the technical person who actually understands the business, not the one hiding in a Slack channel
• You use AI coding tools because they make you faster, but you can also tell us exactly where you don't trust them
• You'd rather own three systems and make them excellent than touch twelve and own none
• You've built internal tools, CRMs, dashboards, scheduling apps, or anything else real operators use to run a real business — bonus if it was for a contractor, home services, or remodeling business
• You're the kind of teammate other people want to work with — humble enough to listen, dedicated enough to finish, persistent enough to come back when something isn't right
• You're comfortable working at a faith-rooted company even if your own background is different
• Bonus on top of bonus: you've worked inside an EOS shop and know what an L10, a Rock, IDS, and an Accountability Chart actually feel like

Who this isn't for:

We'd rather be honest now than waste your interview slot. Skip this one if:

• Your portfolio is mostly demos, tutorials, or AI-generated prototypes you've never had to support after launch
• You think architecture diagrams are the fun part and everything after is a chore
• You need a team of senior engineers around you to feel productive
• You'd describe yourself as "more of a frontend person" or "more of a backend person" — we need someone comfortable everywhere
• You're allergic to a workplace where faith is named openly
• You're looking for a place to coast for two years and put a logo on a resume

The technical bar:

You should be solid on most of this and confident across the front end and back end:

• Front end: JavaScript/TypeScript, plus React, js, Vue, or equivalent
• Back end: Node.js, Python (Django/FastAPI), C#/.NET, PHP/Laravel, Ruby on Rails, or equivalent — pick your weapon, just be good with it
• Database: PostgreSQL, MySQL, or SQL Server. You can write SQL without a GUI helping you
• Cloud and deploys: AWS (preferred) or comparable, Git, CI/CD, real production deployment experience including the part where things go wrong
• Integrations: APIs, webhooks, and the messy reality of connecting CRMs, schedulers, email/SMS, and the tool the marketing team picked without asking you
• AI-assisted coding and AI workflows: Claude, Cursor, or Copilot for development speed — and real opinions about how to use AI in the business, not just the IDE

Bonus points for: AWS specifically, prior internal-tools or CRM build experience, integrations with contractor / remodeling / home services platforms (MarketSharp, JobNimbus, Improveit 360, ServiceTitan, Jobber, HubSpot, etc.), Google Local Services / Houzz / Angi lead pipelines, rollback discipline, and ever having migrated a business off an existing CRM without burning the office down.

What success looks like in your first 12 months

You'll know you're winning if:

• The technology strategy goal on our 2026 plan ships, and leadership feels real progress on it
• We have a working, opinionated company-wide AI strategy that removes meaningful work from our team's plates
• We have source control, environments, deployment discipline, and documentation that didn't exist before you arrived
• Designers, sales, and operations stop telling us about the same friction points because you've removed them
• Leadership can see the business clearly through dashboards that didn't exist when you started
• When something breaks, you find it, fix it, make it right — and explain what you changed so it doesn't happen again

The deal:

• Compensation: $95,000-$125,000 base depending on experience, with room at the top end for the right strategic hire. Health benefits, retirement match, and a delivery-tied annual bonus
• Location: Mostly remote, with periodic on-site time at Glandorf HQ and our Powell showroom — figure on a few days a quarter, more in your first few months. Ohio-based candidates preferred but not required
• Hours: Full-time. Some early-morning release windows. Manage your own schedule, just don't break Monday morning
• Reports to: Leadership, directly
• Start date: When we find the right person. We're not in a rush, and you shouldn't be either

How to apply:

Send us three things:

1. A short note — not a cover letter. Tell us about a piece of software you've owned end-to-end and what you'd change about it if you started over today.
2. One project you can walk us A repo, a live URL, a screen recording — whatever's real.
3. Your resume.

If we like what we see, you'll hear from us within a week. If you make it past the first call, we'll do a working session together. Not a trick algorithm puzzle — a real-ish workflow ("a homeowner requests a pergola consultation online, gets routed to a designer, follow-ups fire automatically, the install is scheduled, leadership sees it on a dashboard, and we know our cost-per-lead by source") and we'll ask you to sketch how you'd build it. We care about how you think out loud and what questions you ask. That's the whole job.

We read every application. Apply online today!

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