Drupal 8+ Developer

Fruition is seeking a solid mid-level or senior Drupal Developer to work on complex, enterprise-level Drupal 8 and 9 projects. If you are passionate about working on fun and challenging projects, this is the start of a great career move. This is a position for progressive developers who love professional development and tightening the loop between learning, open-source contribution, and real-world application. 

Job Description

As a Drupal Developer, you’ll spend your time creating custom functionality on new and existing projects in Drupal 8 and 9, with a focus on backend development. The Drupal Developer will spend 80% of their time writing great code, 10% reviewing code of peer developers and/or contractors, and 10% ensuring projects are aligned alongside dedicated project managers. 

Additional responsibilities include:

• Applying architectural knowledge to new projects
• Engineering large scale and complex websites using Drupal, including custom module development, key contributed modules and the core API.
• Maintain and administer Drupal modules and sites
• Applying knowledge in SQL, relational databases and MySQL
• Working with front-end developers in bridging modern CSS, JavaScript and other relevant technologies to the  back-end.
• Integrating open source and third-party applications into existing systems
• Writing clean, well designed code, following industry best practices.
• Senior level: Solving complex performance problems and architectural challenges.
• Assisting the sales process with estimates on future work.
• Providing peer review to others.
• Senior level: Mentoring more junior team members.

Required Key Skills and Education 

• Working knowledge of Drupal 8+, including dependent technologies, e.g. Symfony framework components.
• Our Drupal practice is heavy on Drupal Commerce, so experience in this ecosystem or JSON:API and decoupled environments is strongly preferred. Strong underlying software development lifecycle knowledge and skills are required – be prepared to debate the merits of service decoration vs. replacement.  
• Experience with complex codebases; ability to install from source, scaffold example content and work on sites without requiring database dumps or production artifacts.
• Knowledgeable and opinionated about software maintainability. A stickler for inline and user documentation as well as OOP development patterns that yield maintainable code.
• Experience contributing to both Drupal and other upstream projects; tell us how you solved a problem for a client by submitting bug fixes?
• Up-to-date on new and upcoming language constructs. Help us roll out opcode preloading for Drupal 9.
• Comfort at the SQL command line.
• Skills in writing unit, kernel, browser and functional tests, and can debug them in the IDE.
• Debugging fu with Xdebug and other profilers.
• Enough JavaScript to speak intelligently with our front-end people. Experience with React a huge bonus, but not strictly required.
• You can write Twig and debug it with breakpoints in PhpStorm, too.
• Experience as a member of a team using SDLC basics like CI/CD, constructive code review and mentoring of juniors.
• Strong command-line git skill.

Benefits Summary

• Work/Life Balance – opportunities for flex schedule and remote work
• Flexible Paid Time Off Policy (no pre-set limits)
• Health insurance including medical, dental, and vision (partial employer-paid medical)
• Life insurance, short- and long-term disability, and supplemental voluntary benefits
• 401(k) with company match
• Parental Leave
• Sabbatical 
• Ongoing training and development
• Employee social and fundraising events

Salary Range – Dependent on experience 

• Drupal Developer: $60,000-$90,000 annual salary, commensurate with experience, skills, education and/or training
• Senior Drupal Developer: $90,000-$120,000 annual salary, commensurate with experience, skills, education and/or training

Domicile requirements

• Fruition prides itself on hiring a diverse, global workforce. However, some of our clients require US-based talent. For this reason, certain requisitions (including this one) are limited to US-based candidates for full-time direct employment. International applicants, keep your eyes on our careers page for other opportunities.

No agencies or recruiters, please.