Role description
As a Drupal Developer, you will write front and back-end code for our public-facing web sites and the Drupal 8 that powers them.
We’re looking for someone with strong written and oral communication skills who can drive solutions to complex problems in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment while maintaining momentum in the face of obstacles.
If you want to work on exciting projects, be part of a great technical and communications team, share our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusiveness, and wish to make a real difference in the lives and futures of kids in our society, here’s how to do it.
Profile
- Continuously improve the user experience of our client’s web properties by achieving excellence in visual design and functionality
- Fully utilize the capabilities of PHP and Drupal to meet our organization’s needs.
- Collaborate effectively with people from a variety of technical and business disciplines as you support, manage, and lead developers in project work within the product Agile team
- Be accountable for production support/emergencies as a point of contact
- Design, build and test technical features/functionality that are dynamic, secure, performant, scalable, and maintainable
- Be responsible for the code release to the Production Environment.
- Write, execute and report test cases.
- Read and write build specifications and documentation
- Define and champion coding standards and best practices.
- Oversee the maintenance of source control systems, shared repositories, quality checks, and code validation
- Maintain the cloud-hosted Acquia Drupal 8 solution. Requirements
- 4-6 years of experience in full-stack development on the Drupal Platform
- Drupal 8 experience including custom theming, key contributed modules, custom Views, Paragraphs, Content Editor, Directory.
- Experience writing manual tests and following Test-Driven Development (TDD) processes
- Experience working in an agile environment
- Experience working on a large website rebuild or re-platform project
- Proficiency in custom module development with the Drupal Core API (Database API, Entity API, Form API, Batch API, Field API, File API)
- Expertise in PHP and developing PHP applications using multiple frameworks
- Expertise in front end development: customize Drupal themes using Pattern Lab, HTML, Twig, SASS, Javascript, and PHP
- Proficiency in usability and web accessibility
- Experience with cloud-hosted Drupal solutions, such as Pantheon and Acquia
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.
- Advanced English skills
