Drupal Developer

Job Title — Backend Drupal Developer
Experience - 5+ years
Job Description
We are seeking an experienced Backend Drupal Developer to build and maintain a scalable and secure headless Drupal backend. The ideal candidate will be responsible for exposing content via APIs to integrate with a modern frontend framework and work collaboratively with the frontend team in an agile environment.
Mandatory Requirements:
- 5+ years of backend development experience with modern frameworks.
- Proven expertise in Drupal 9/10 with a focus on headless/decoupled architectures.
- Strong experience in exposing content via GraphQL, REST, or JSON:API.
- Ability to create and manage content types, view modes, fields, paragraphs, and taxonomies.
- Experience developing custom Drupal modules and plugins.
- Skilled in integrating and configuring Elasticsearch for content search.
- Experience supporting component-driven development with frontend teams.
- Familiarity with implementing multilingual, SEO-friendly, and accessibility-compliant content structures.
- Proficiency in applying caching, performance tuning, and security best practices on API endpoints and backend systems.
- Comfortable participating in agile ceremonies including sprint planning, demos, and retrospectives.
- Experience conducting peer code reviews and adhering to coding/documentation standards.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Self-starter with a high level of motivation and organization.
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain a headless Drupal 9/10 backend for frontend integration.
- Expose content structures via GraphQL, REST, or JSON:API for frontend consumption.
- Design and manage content types, fields, taxonomies, paragraphs, and view modes.
- Create custom modules and extend core Drupal functionalities as per project needs.
- Configure and optimize Elasticsearch for fast, scalable content search experiences.
- Collaborate with frontend developers to support seamless data flow and component-driven development.
- Implement SEO-friendly, accessible, and multilingual content configurations.
- Apply backend performance tuning, API caching, and security best practices.
- Participate in agile ceremonies and contribute to sprint deliverables.
- Perform peer code reviews and ensure high-quality documentation and code standards.
Qualifications:
- Experience level 5+ years
- Must possess strong technical background, analytical, and problem-solving skills
- Education: Full-time Bachelor’s or Master’s degree (Computer Science/IT preferred)
Job description:
- Develop and maintain a scalable and secure headless Drupal 9/10 backend, optimized for API consumption.
- 5+ years of backend development experience with modern frameworks.
- Design and expose content structures and entities via GraphQL, REST, or JSON:API to integrate with the frontend (Next.js).
- Strong expertise in Drupal headless/decoupled architectures.
- Experience in creating and managing content types, view modes, fields, paragraphs, and taxonomies.
- Create custom Drupal modules and plugins to extend core functionalities based on project requirements.
- Integrate and configure Elasticsearch for fast and scalable content search experiences.
- Work with frontend developers to ensure smooth data flow and support component-driven development.
- Implement and configure multilingual, SEO-friendly, and accessibility-compliant content structures.
- Apply caching, performance tuning, and security best practices on API endpoints and backend systems.
- Participate in agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, demos, and retrospectives.
- Conduct peer code reviews and ensure adherence to coding standards and documentation.

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