Senior Software Engineer - Drupal Back End Developer
About the job
The Red Hat Customer Portal team is looking for an experienced Drupal developer to join us as a Senior Software Engineer. In this role, you will work with both internal and customer-facing software to develop new features, perform bug fixes, refactor existing code, and write test automation. You will need to be comfortable developing custom modules, using Drupal's various APIs, integrating third-party APIs, and collaborating with multiple development teams toward common solutions. Successful applicants must reside in a state where Red Hat is registered to do business.
What you will do
- Design, implement, and extend both internal and customer-facing software
- Ensure ongoing quality of the application codebases through bug fixes, refactoring, and test automation
- Collaborate with other developers across multiple teams and technologies for cross-team projects
- Work with internal stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical tasks with the ability to conceptualize the implementation steps cleanly and efficiently
What you will bring
- 5+ years of Drupal application development experience
- Significant experience developing with Drupal 8/9
- Experience working on Drupal migrations, ideally from Drupal 7 to Drupal 8/9
- Experience developing modules that perform well at scale or solid familiarity with the problem space (caching, graceful failure, etc.)
- Experience using Composer
- Layout builder and custom block development experience
- Configuration management and configuration split
- Good understanding of object-oriented programming (OOP) principles in PHP
- Solid understanding of services, interfaces, event subscribers, class inheritance, and dependency injection and how Drupal makes use of them
- Ability to effectively collaborate with a team using Git
- Experience with Linux or UNIX platforms
- Able to write clear documentation for both technical users and end users
- Creative, motivated, and capable of working both on your own and as part of a globally distributed team
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment
- Solid customer focus and commitment to product quality
- Good communication skills and ability to write well, present demos, and verbally discuss information with stakeholders
- Ability and eagerness to collaborate with quality engineers and write clear testing instructions
The following are considered a plus:
- Bachelor's degree in a technical field; engineering or computer science background
- Drupal.org contributions; other open source contributions are also helpful
- Experience working on a Drupal 8/9 multilingual site
- Basic understanding of Drupal's JavaScript behaviors system
- Basic understanding of ES6 and modern JavaScript frameworks (React and Angular)
- Experience with RESTful APIs
- Familiarity with Drupal core library internals
- Experience with debugging applications with tools like xdebug
- Proficiency in project management software like Jira
- Familiarity with sprint planning and ability to post thorough communication updates in tickets, services, or third-party integrations
- Experience collaborating on Gitlab CI scripts or equivalent
- Experience with Jenkins
About Red Hat
Red Hat is the world's leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver reliable and high-performing Linux, hybrid cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Red Hat helps customers integrate new and existing IT applications, develop cloud-native applications, standardize on our industry-leading operating system, and automate, secure, and manage complex environments. Award-winning support, training, and consulting services make Red Hat a trusted adviser to the Fortune 500. As a strategic partner to cloud providers, system integrators, application vendors, customers, and open source communities, Red Hat can help organizations prepare for the digital future.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Flexible Spending Account - healthcare and dependent care
- Health Savings Account - high deductible medical plan
- Retirement 401(k) with employer match
- Paid time off and holidays
- Paid parental leave plans for all new parents
- Leave benefits including disability, paid family medical leave, and paid military leave
- Additional benefits including employee stock purchase plan, family planning reimbursement, tuition reimbursement, transportation expense account, employee assistance program, and more!
Note: These benefits are only applicable to full time, permanent associates at Red Hat located in the United States.