Lead Web Developer

Urban Land Institute · Data & Digital Products

The Urban Land Institute is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit research and education organization supported by its members. Founded in 1936, the Institute has more than 48,000 members worldwide representing the full spectrum of land use and real estate development disciplines across private enterprise and public service. ULI’s mission is to shape the future of the built environment for transformative impact in communities worldwide.

ULI’s Data & Digital Products team builds the data, apps, and web platforms that ULI members and staff use every day. It is a small, engineering-led team organized around three areas: data, applications, and web. This role leads the web side.

ULI’s web presence has grown to more than 100 sites, mostly on WordPress and hosted in Azure. Over the years it has become a tangle of microsites with inconsistent look and feel, dated navigation, and no shared design system, and the member experience has not kept pace. ULI is now rebuilding its web portfolio in phases, with the goal of bringing uli.org and its many connected sites together into a single, modern platform.

The Lead Web Engineer is the hands-on engineer at the center of that work. During the rebuild, expect to spend the large majority of your time, around 85 to 90 percent, writing code, building prototypes, and shipping. You won’t be chasing stakeholders for requirements. ULI’s in-house project management tea