Sr Drupal Support Developer
Velir is an established mid-sized agency with a top-tier portfolio of clients, ranging from the world’s largest non-profits to Fortune 500 brands. As of 2023, Velir acquired Brooklyn Data Company, a premier data and analytics consultancy focused on leadership, process improvement, implementation, and advanced analytics.
At Velir, we believe people are our greatest asset. Our culture is built on a foundation of trust, collaboration, and continued improvement. We strive for excellence in everything we do, embracing challenges as opportunities for growth. Our success is driven by a shared passion for making a positive impact on our customers, our communities and each other. We are a remote first company that offers competitive pay and excellent benefits.
*This is a 6-week contract with possibility to extend*
$60-75hr
The Senior Drupal Support Developer is a member of a cross-functional web development team responsible for maintaining enterprise level web applications in a growing Drupal team. This developer is a strong communicator who excels at collaborating with team members and conveying technical concepts to other developers, managers, and clients. This developer has strong technical skills utilizing clean and solid programming techniques, web security practices, and design patterns. A senior support developer at Velir really understands what it takes for a project to run well and has the skills to ensure that happens.
Responsibilities
• Collaborate with a cross-functional team to understand troubleshooting, requirements, communicate solutions, and implement specifications according to Velir’s Best Practices
• Maintain content driven enterprise level web applications, implementing user interfaces and back-end functionality for both the users and client authoring experiences.
• Integrate/Troubleshoot with third-party systems utilizing web services, providers, and designing/repairing APIs.
• Maintain, test, and document cutting edge Drupal based web solutions for our clients.
• Ability to create/troubleshoot/repair/upgrade Drupal modules to solve problems.
• Be an important part of Velir’s on-call schedule, processes, and procedures.
• Contribute to the Velir Drupal development community through internal presentations, blog posts, and suggestions for improving development practices.
• Create documentation around processes including deployments, solution audits, data and content migrations, and systems integrations.
• Consistently stay abreast of the leading trends in the industry and integrate the best techniques, tools, and practices into Velir’s development process.
• Implement and maintain standards, practices, and supporting tools to ensure that teams provide a consistent level of service.
Skills & Qualifications
• Able to communicate technical concepts effectively to members of cross-functional teams, clients, and stakeholders.
• Ability to maintain and foster a high-level communication and collaboration, aptitude for building consensus and compromise with your approach, and enthusiasm for introducing new concepts and processes.
• Ability to identify roadblocks, raise these risks, and provide leadership towards resolutions.
• Detail-oriented, motivated, results-driven self-starter that takes initiative.
• Strong communication skills both written and verbal as well as good interpersonal skills.
• BS in Computer Science or equivalent
• 7+ years of experience programming in procedural OOP with PHP 7.x+ and 8.1+
• 5+ years of experience working in Drupal 9 or higher.
• Proficient at writing reusable and modular code.
• Experience creating Drupal modules to solve problems.
• 5+ years of experience working with git branching and merging.
• Experience with production deployments and hosting solutions such as Acquia.
• Foundation in software engineering principles including OOP, code patterns, and SOLID.
Physical Requirements
• Frequent sitting at a desk performing work on a computer.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Core Company Values
- Take the Long View - Ensure the company is built to last
- Be Courageous - Make the right decisions even when they aren't the easiest decisions
- Be Genuine - Bring honesty and authenticity to all that you do
- Work with Focus + Passion - Display purpose and pride in your work and never stop learning
As an equal opportunity employer, we are firmly committing to diversity, equity, and inclusion in our hiring efforts. We recognize that we need team members from all backgrounds and experiences to successfully shape a positive employee experience as well as deliver our product and service solutions. To that end, we actively seek candidates who can bring diverse experiences and backgrounds to our team. We know that complex factors and systemic bias can get in the way of us meeting strong candidates, so please don't hesitate to apply even if you're not 100% sure.
At this time, Velir does not sponsor candidates and unfortunately cannot accept those on OPT or CPT.
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