Location: Koreatown, Los Angeles 
Experience: Mid-level (3-5 years)

Summary

We're seeking an experienced, sharp web developer (back-end or full-stack) to join our team to help develop web applications, sites and tools for higher education, urban planning, museums, and legal services. Join a supportive team that values your contribution, and where we work together to help our clients make the world a better place.

This position is primarily located in Los Angeles in the Koreatown (Wilshire/Western) area. After two years with Urban Insight, remote work is possible.
 
Some of our current projects include:

• Creating an online video education website.
• Developing a website for one of nation’s leading museums.
• Creating a mobile app for a leading university that awards badges and levels to encourage participation in on-campus activities.

Key Qualifications

• 3-5 years experience with Drupal, WordPress, Symfony, Node or equivalent.
• 3-5 year experience with PHP and MySQL.
• Experience with Git.
• You’ve worked successfully as part of a team.
• Bachelor’s degree, any field.

Responsibilities

• Work as part of a team that typically includes a digital project manager, strategist, front-end and back-end engineers, designer, and Q/A specialist.
• Help to plan, design and create innovative websites, using open source web content management systems like Drupal and Wordpress.
• Help to design and create web applications using Angular, Node.js, PHP and MySQL.  
• Although we have a primary office in LA, we’re also a partially distributed team. If you feel comfortable using tools like Slack, Zoom, case tracking, you’ll fit right in.
• Write clear, concise documentation and case updates.

Your Career Path

The position offers multiple career paths within Urban Insight. The most likely career path for a high-achieving team member is to promote to Senior Web Developer (1-2 years), Engineer (1-2 years), Senior Engineer (2 years), and Director (2 years). Alternative career paths include roles in operations, technical architecture or project management.

About Urban Insight

• Urban Insight is a Los Angeles-based digital agency with 20 team members. 
• We’re the top-ranked Web development and Drupal agency in Los Angeles, according to Clutch, an independent analyst. Have a look at what our clients say about us .
• We help our clients beautiful and flexible websites and applications. We do this by providing strong project leadership, honest advice, thoughtful design and technical best-practices.
• We take on cutting edge, challenging projects for appreciative clients, and have a supportive and team-based approach to projects.
• We plan, design and create innovative websites, and we often use open source web content management systems like Drupal and Wordpress
• We design and develop custom applications using tools like Angular, node.js, Stripe, PHP, Javsacript, Bootstrap and MysQL.
• We are one of the few agencies that know how to manage a technology project (one of our founders literally wrote a book on it). We employ a combination of waterfall (requirements and design) and agile (development) methodologies.

Why Work At Urban Insight?

• We take on interesting, meaningful projects for appreciative clients.
• We have many training opportunities, and we actively support training and certification.
• We work with you to create a career path that works for you.
• Average employee tenure is 7.2 years.
• We're stable. We've been in business for 18 years, and continue to grow each year.
• We offer a casual and flexible working environment with plenty of opportunities for growth for the right candidate.
• We believe in a reasonable life/work balance and usually have 40-hour work weeks. 
• Team members work with the latest hardware and software, and can choose their primary OS (Win/Mac/Linux), and have the other environments available for dev/testing.
• We offer free snacks, premium coffee and filtered water all day long. 
• We have regular catered Lunch 'n Learns on a variety of topics. Recent topics have included: Atomic theming patterns, Introduction to Adobe XD, Intro to AWS architecture, Drupal 8 Layouts and Landing pages.
• You may not need to drive. Our office is directly above the Metro Purple Line Normandie Station (and we’ll buy you a Metro pass).
• There are many more reasons.

Compensation

We offer a competitive salary, which depends quite a lot on your qualifications and experience. Our salary package includes:

• Health insurance (95% employer-paid).
• Dental insurance (95% employer-paid).
• Vision insurance (95% employer-paid).
• Company sponsored 401(k) plan with employer match (after 60 days).
• LA Metro transit access card that allows you to ride everything that Metro owns, including Metro rail, Metro local buses, Metro Rapid buses, 24x7.
• Paid sick leave.
• Paid vacation leave (after 60 days).
• Enjoy premium coffee, filtered water and snacks while you work.
• Performance and compensation reviews annually.