Offer summary

Qualifications:

Minimum of 5 years building web applications and solutions, Familiarity with Drupal 8/9 CMS, Git, PHP, JavaScript/jQuery, and APIs integration.

Key responsabilities:

Ideate, design, and execute software solutions for diverse clients' needs

Collaborate on project plans, conduct ongoing tests to ensure performance

Develop and maintain healthy working documentation thru identifying likely setbacks and reporting promptly

Participate in conventions dedicated to knowledge exchange and refinement of expertise

Job description

Zivtech is a Philadelphia based technology services firm that designs and builds innovative web products and applications. Our clients range from startups, to large non-profits, to Fortune 500 companies. We help mission-driven organizations adapt and benefit from change by using technology to light the path forward.

We are currently looking for a Senior Drupal Developer to work with our distributed Engineering team who is comfortable working in both back-end and front-end technologies. Zivtech has a flexible, but fast paced work environment, and we are seeking talented individuals who are eager to contribute and learn.

As a Senior Drupal Developer, you are expected work collaboratively with a team to invent and craft elegant software solutions to human problems. We expect that everyone at Zivtech is a self-educator and maintain up-to-date knowledge of the latest best practices. Team members work together to maintain documentation and keep everything running as smooth as possible.

Key Responsibilities

Show initiative beyond knocking tasks off a list; you're able to research and evaluate solutions, features, and related technologies that fulfill project requirements and anticipate future client needs
Test assigned features to ensure proper functionality
Working with the technical architect to implement customer requirements and system requirements
Responsible for breaking down complex tasks, completing them, and managing roadblocks by coming up with workarounds or grabbing others for help or insight as necessary
Contribute to the common codebases and standards for your team
Mentor team members on development best practices
Assist in identifying and validating test cases and can identify regression risks in their features
Identify risks in code, features, and design, and communicate these to the appropriate parties

Required knowledge, skills, and experience

5+ years of experience designing and building web applications and solutions
Self-educator
A passion for delivery interesting software solutions to human problems
Deep knowledge of the Drupal 8/9 CMS, including module and theme layer, and ability to create pragmatic custom technology solutions founded on Drupal best practice
Experience with Drupal migrations
Advanced knowledge of Git
Excellent time management, problem-solving, and communication skills
Familiarity with object-oriented PHP programming, including common design patterns
Comfortable with reading API documentation and integrating with external APIs and systems
Comfortable writing complex SQL queries as well as Drupal EntityQueries and the Database API
Experience with the command line shell and tools like Drush
Advanced knowledge of CSS, SCSS, HTML, Javascript/jQuery

Nice to have

Experience with React & React Native
One or more Acquia Drupal certifications
Experience designing and maintaining a custom reusable component library and/or theme