Location Porto, Portugal (Remote)
Salary/Fee €1,500 - €3,500+ EUR / month
Reports to
Head of PHP
The Opportunity We're seeking a Senior Drupal Developer to complement and bolster our current team of talented developers. As part of the role, you will be architecting solutions, leading projects, working with our Technical Solutions Team, contributing to our proposals, and helping to win new clients with your problem-solving and ideas. If you feel you have the ability to break down technical ideas into layman's terms, you will also have the opportunity to support our Strategy Team with new business pitches.
You will get to explore new technology and influence our ways of working within our collaborative environment, you will learn from our existing team while also being able to contribute your own ideas to help us progress and innovate. We're particularly keen to re-establish links back into the Drupal community and we're looking for a candidate who also shares this passion and enthusiasm.
This role will be the first Senior Drupal Developer role in the region, and initially be stand-alone, supported by the wider Development Team. It is an exciting time to join us as we grow our global presence beyond our current locations in Hong Kong, USA, Europe (Germany and Portugal) and the UK.
About you This is a key hire for our business, and we're absolutely determined to seek out the very best Senior Drupal Developer to enhance the skills of our existing team. In recent times, we've won several new client projects. Forearmed with a great deal of experience in architecting and shaping solid performant Drupal builds, your role as a Senior Developer will be to support and lead on these projects, owning the solution and delivering an exceptional end-product that we're all proud to put our names to, and the client is equally delighted with.
Project leadership, self-motivation and collaboration will be essential skills. As we grow the regional team, there will be the opportunity to mentor junior members.
Skills, knowledge and experience Multiple years of professional development in Drupal, including:
Architecting and building complex enterprise-scale Drupal websitesConfiguration ManagementObject Oriented ProgrammingA good understanding of Drupal's API, Custom module and theme developmentAPI Integrations (REST/SOAP)A keen eye for security and performanceWorking with Git + follow a branching methodologyNice to have: Apache / Nginx configurationKnowledge of Cloudflare or other CDN providersKnowledge of and application to Amazon Web Services (AWS)Javascript / jQueryContinuous Integration (Bitbucket Pipelines, Github Actions)Automated Testing (Unit testing, Behat, Cypress)DockerExposure to SEO best practicesYou don't need to tick all the boxes to be considered, so please do still apply if you have most of what we're looking for.
About Us Reading Room is a user-led, data-centric digital transformation consultancy. It is the home for the curious! We help all kinds of passionate brands and organisations to realise their digital ambitions. And, as a 50-strong team of digital specialists across the UK & Europe, we cover the whole caboodle – from the deep dive and digital strategy, right through to the design, technology and communications that define how customers feel and interact.
Reading Room's existing client base is impressive, including well-known organisations spanning; central Government, blue light services, public and private healthcare, membership, not-for-profit, charity, and construction… to name a few. In recent times, we've seen an uplift in demand and requirement for our specialist services, with a number of new clients joining our growing portfolio.
How to apply Do you like the sound of all of this? If so, we'd love to hear from you! Please send us your CV and a short paragraph telling us about you and why you would like to work with us, and we'll be in touch.
Please submit your application through our careers site. The interview process will consist of 2 stages... the first will be an introductory call for you and us to find out a bit more about each other; the second stage would be a competency-based and behavioural interview with the Hiring Manager, and a team member.
Given the nature of the business and our clients' requirements, any job offers issued will be conditional upon the satisfactory completion of pre-contract checks and references.
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