Overview

We're looking for a Software Developer. Headquartered in Los Angeles, California, Right Balance provides top-tier technology talent for innovative companies in the US. We’re in the top 50 companies to watch in LA.

Engagement Details

We're a digital marketing company specializing in lead generation within various financial services industries, enrollment growth services, and solutions for higher education institutions. We're a small, efficient, remote team with headquarters in the US. Speed of delivery is one of our core values. If you are an individual with a bias for action, we would love to hear from you. The majority of what you'll do is put together single-purpose lead-generation web pages and integrate with third-party APIs. Our stack is PHP on the backend, jQuery, React, Vue.js on the frontend. We're using Git for Version control, MySQL for the database, and we have several WordPress websites to maintain. It's a full-stack role, you'll be working with both: frontend and backend. The main focus is on speed and delivering results quickly. Because the projects are mostly single-purpose, we value fast and simple implementation over long-term maintainability and complicated solutions.

What’s in it for you

1. Learn and evolve your skills using the latest and greatest technology tools in a rapidly growing company.
2. Learn from the best people around you. We constantly challenge the status quo and invent new ways of building a great product.
3. Flexible hours. Join daily standups, sprint planning, and retrospective meetings. Other than that, you’re in control of your own schedule.
4. Work on challenging problems, innovate, and positively impact many people's lives while having fun doing it.

Required Qualifications

• Upper-intermediate to fluent speaking and writing English. Able to have a real-time conversation.
• 2+ years of full-time hands-on Software Development experience.
• 2+ years of full-time hands-on PHP experience.
• 2+ years of full-time hands-on HTML experience.
• 2+ years of full-time hands-on CSS experience.
• 2+ years of full-time hands-on Javascript experience.
• 2+ years of full-time hands-on jQuery experience.
• Proactiveness: ability to figure out the details on your own without much guidance or supervision.
• Speed: ability to develop working lead generation pages and get them released quickly.
• Bias for action: producing meaningful results without overthinking or building perfect solutions. We value speed over maintainability since we often release single-use lead generation pages.
• API Integration: experience integrating with various APIs and services.
• Replication: ability to replicate existing pages quickly instead of creating new high-fidelity page designs from scratch.

Nice to haves

1. Vue.js experience.
2. React.js experience.
3. Visual web design experience.
4. Google Cloud experience.
5. Docker experience.
6. Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent demonstrated ability.

Frequently Asked Questions

What are your typical clients?

The majority of our clients are venture-backed startups at the growth stage. Usually, at this stage, the company already achieved a product-market fit and is looking to expand rapidly. That’s where we bring the best engineering practices, strong architecture, the latest technologies, and consistent processes to help companies scale.

What is the length of your engagements?

Most of our long-term full-time engagements last multiple years. It allows you to evolve your career with the client company taking on more responsibilities.

What’s your company size?

The Right Balance team is 60+ engineers going to 100+ by the end of the year. The current client size team is 6+ people. The timing is great to be a part of a small team making meaningful contributions.

What happens if the engagement is completed?

Most of our engagements are long-term in nature. That said, if the current engagement is ramping down, we’ll present you with more long-term opportunities to transition into.

What are your core values?

Client First: we only win when our clients win. We treat client challenges as our own.

Ownership: we embrace responsibility, taking on challenges, getting them to completion, and enjoying getting things done.

Quality: we’re passionate about achieving quality outcomes by applying meticulous attention to detail.