
Senior Full Stack Drupal Engineer (Remote)
Job Description
This role requires ownership of technical architecture, leadership in peer code reviews, and hands-on performance optimization across multiple sites within a unified Drupal 11 ecosystem.
• Architect and maintain complex Drupal 11 multisite
• Manage shared codebases with site-specific overrides
• Implement configuration strategies (Config Split, Config Ignore, environment overrides)
• Prevent cross-site configuration conflicts and dependency issues
• Support deployment workflows across dev, testing, and production environments
• Build and maintain enterprise-level custom modules following Drupal 11 best practices
• Develop custom plugins, services, event subscribers, REST resources, and controllers
• Implement cron jobs, queue workers, batch operations, and background processes
• Develop REST/JSON:API integrations with external systems
• Design complex content models (Content Types, Paragraphs, Taxonomies, Media relationships)
• Maintain strict adherence to Drupal coding standards and OOP principles
Frontend Development (Traditional Drupal Theming)
• Build and maintain custom Twig-based themes
• Implement preprocess functions, theme hooks, and template overrides
• Develop responsive, accessible (WCAG-compliant) interfaces using HTML5, SCSS, and JavaScript (ES6+)
• Optimize asset libraries, aggregation, and lazy loading
• Improve Core Web Vitals and frontend performance
• Analyze and optimize database queries, entity loading, and Views performance
• Implement advanced caching strategies:
• Optimize Composer autoloading and module loading performance
• Conduct performance audits and load testing
• Reduce server resource consumption across multisite infrastructure
Conduct structured peer code reviews ensuring:
- Performance efficiency
- Security compliance
- Maintainability & reusability
- Enforce architecture standards and Drupal best practice
- Identify technical debt and propose refactoring strategies
- Provide architectural documentation and technical guidance
- Use AI-assisted review tooling to enhance consistency and coverage
- Expected to operate with minimal oversight and drive solutions independently.
• Maintain configuration synchronization strategies
• Apply and maintain custom patches for contrib modules
• Write and maintain Drush commands for automation
• Work within Git-based version control and CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with Apache, Nginx
• Strong hands-on experience with Drupal 9/10/11
• Proven experience managing complex multisite architectures
• Expert-level custom module development
• Strong PHP 8+ (OOP, Symfony components, Dependency Injection)
• Deep knowledge of:
• Drupal Hooks & Events system
• Entity API, Form API, Plugin API
• Configuration Management
• Caching systems
• Experience with MySQL
• Strong Git workflow experience
• Demonstrated performance optimization expertise
• Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools
Preferred Experience
• Enterprise-level Drupal platforms
• High-traffic website optimization
• Drupal Commerce integration
• AI experimentation/implementation in engineering workflows
Backend: PHP 8+, Drupal 11, MySQL/PostgreSQL
Frontend: Twig, HTML5, SCSS, JavaScript (ES6+)
Architecture: Multisite, Config Management, Performance Optimization
Tools: Composer, Drush, Git, CI/CD, Copilot
• Strong architectural thinking and analytical skills
• Ability to mentor and lead technical initiatives
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Detail-oriented with a focus on scalable solutions
• Comfortable working in Agile/Sprint-based teams