Drupal Developer Job at UST

• Design, develop, test, and deliver technology solutions by translating requirements into functional, user-friendly websites for internal and external customers.
• Work extensively with Drupal core services, including creating new services, extending or overriding existing ones, and managing services at the codebase level.
• Understand and adhere to the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), ensuring timely completion and production readiness of all projects.
• Create and deliver design specifications and test plans for development projects.
• Analyze, troubleshoot, debug, and resolve website and system issues efficiently.
• Participate actively in team meetings, coaching sessions, and problem-solving discussions, contributing to peer code reviews.
• Interact effectively with business stakeholders to gather requirements and ensure alignment with business needs.
• Enforce and contribute to best practices that improve efficiency and reduce technical debt across our websites and systems.
• Establish and follow technical standards for application development, providing proper documentation.
• Demonstrate a strong understanding of security principles as they relate to web applications.
• Provide coaching, mentoring, and training to less experienced team members.
• Collaborate with various internal departments and external organizations, including vendors, to implement and integrate applications while resolving production issues.
• Exhibit advanced functional knowledge of assigned applications and take on administration and support responsibilities.
• Complete tasks proactively, seeking high-quality outcomes, and promptly responding to assignments and deadlines.
• Prepare and provide status and progress reports for all assigned work activities.

Requirements

• Over 4 years of web development experience, including 4+ years of expert proficiency in Drupal services.
• Expertise in working with core services, extending or overriding services, creating new services, and managing services at the codebase level.
• Proficiency in Drupal configuration management and entity management, including configuration updates, database updates, and managing configurations for multiple environments.
• Experience in creating new modules, understanding Drupal hooks and hook hierarchy, theming through custom modules, and creating and adding libraries.
• Understanding of Drupal theming, including theme namespacing and proficiency in code-based theming concepts (e.g., preprocess hooks).
• Composer project management expertise, including understanding how the lockfile and versioning work (important for security scans), and the ability to find, create, and apply patches to core and contributed modules.
• Proficiency in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Strong PHP skills, including object-oriented programming.
• Experience working with APIs.

Experience

• Over 4 years of experience in web development, with a focus on Drupal.
• 4+ years of experience with Drupal, including proficiency with Drupal services and configuration management.
• Extensive experience in creating custom modules and themes, understanding Drupal hooks, and theming through custom modules.
• Expertise in Composer project management and version control systems like Git.
• Proficiency in front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) and back-end development using PHP.
• Experience working with APIs and integrating them into Drupal applications.