Senior PHP Developer

Main responsibilities

Main responsibilities of the role:

• Designing and implementing new features and functionality, establishing and guiding the website’s architecture, ensuring high-performance and availability, and managing all technical aspects of the CMS.
• Design and code service interfaces from Drupal to external systems.
• Liaise with different stakeholders to perform technical analysis of new and existing systems & provide business focused solutions.
• Assess community solutions & create custom Drupal modules when needed.
• Training and mentoring junior team members in technologies, solutions and best practices
• Contribute to task identification, work effort estimates, and work schedules for development and maintenance activities.
• Review and contribute to the performance tuning, and code optimization
• Test, support and troubleshoot any issue of the existing intranet and internet sites

Qualifications and Profile

This position requires a minimum of 4 years (for intermediate) and minimum of 8 years (for Senior level) professional development experience as Drupal PHP Web application developer. The level of detail of the knowledge will be assessed considering the seniority of the candidate.

Functional

• Fair knowledge of project development cycle methodology

Technical

• Extensive experience in Drupal 8 and 9.
• Drupal Enterprise Experience
• Drupal Module Configuration
• Drupal architecture, APIs and custom module development
• Proven ability to design and architect the system by creating prototypes, and Proof of concepts
• Expertise in Drupal 9 Theme, from scratch or framework base (twig, javascript/jquery, bootstrap 4, css/scss/sass)
• Experience in integrating open source and third-party applications into existing sites
• Knowledge of PHP, PHP files and theme functions, and knowledge of the Drupal theme layer
• Expertise in maintenance and administration of Drupal modules and sites
• Drupal Best Practices, Caching methods and build Deploy.
• A deep understanding of HTML/HTML5, CSS/CSS3 and JavaScript with a proven track record of building dynamic & responsive web sites in Drupal and PHP.
• Thorough understanding of the web and web browsers, their capabilities and limitations.

Nice to have

• Experience in NodeJS, ReactJS, AngularJS, Bootstrap, Tailwind CSS or other front end frameworks
• Knowledge on latest versions of MS SQL Server
• Basic Linux operational commands
• Experience in GIT, SSO, NPM, Composer, Drush, Drupal API

Other Professional Skills and Mind-set

• Proactive style of working
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Strong communication (written, and verbal) and organizational skills
• Ability to multi-task and work independently with minimal supervision
• Team player mindset
• Understanding and respect of cultural diversity