Cohaesus jobs - Drupal Developer

Cohaesus is a unique, digital partner to the world’s leading organisations. We have a clear mission to help our clients build the leading platforms, services, and products in their industry. Our uniqueness comes from our people, and their thinking sets us apart in the market.

Cohaesus is a very different kind of environment. We have flexible working including hours and location. We embrace autonomy and invest in training. We provide a 1:1 mentoring programme to ensure that our people embrace our values, and we are proud of the respect that everyone has for each other. We only hire the brightest, driven people and self-motivation is non-negotiable.

We are looking for a Mid-to-Senior Drupal developer to work on medium to large scale PHP and Drupal projects for some of our key clients across websites, apps, and everything in between. You will be working alongside a talented team of technical directors, developers, and dev-ops engineers and will be expected to contribute not only to the development of projects, but the ideas and solutions that define them.

You will be joining a small, nimble team run from our Mumbai office and you will report to and have support from our senior tech team in the UK. Alongside experience and technical expertise, the defining aspect of this role is the drive to constantly improve products and processes. You will be expected to contribute towards solutions to many of the challenges that we and our clients face and work with our team to define features and requirements.

Experience with PHP is essential, especially PHP 7, as well as building sites on Drupal. Practical experience with Drupal 8/9 is required and any experience with Drupal 7 would be advantageous.

As an organisation, we take pride in our craft, and you will do. We expect you to be fully up-to-date in the PHP landscape, including many of the features that PHP 7 has brought to the table such as scalar and return type declarations, as well as common best practices such as efficient namespacing, dependency injection, and SOLID principles.

Core Responsibilities

• Building and supporting backend and frontend development of websites and application projects
• Producing appropriate and effective technical solutions
• Working with a wider, distributed technology and project management teams to meet deadlines and maintain a high standard of code quality
• Understanding, defining, and communicating functional and non-functional requirements
• Working with our technical directors and project managers to define, scope, and estimate projects and features
• Working with QA teams to address bugs and ensure our work output is of the best quality

Technical Requirements:

• Excellent written and verbal English communication
• Full exposure to both backend and frontend development on Drupal platforms
• A strong and demonstrable background working with Drupal, especially 8/9
• Experience building custom integrations, services, and modules within Drupal as well as integrating with APIs
• Experience with Drupal templating using HTML5, CSS (SCSS is a bonus), and JavaScript and also the Twig templating engine
• Competent with MySQL and optimising query and table performance within a Drupal platform
• An understanding of performance within PHP and how to optimise it
• An awareness of optimisation on the frontend such as minification, compression, and caching
• An awareness of security and data best practices
• Confident estimating work effort based on defined requirements
• Source control using GIT including working with feature branching and pull requests

Advantageous but not essential:

• Experience working with Acquia DXP or a similar enterprise platform
• Exposure to containerised or virtual environments such as Vagrant or Docker
• Experience writing efficient test suites for both unit and integration testing
• Exposure to other PHP CMS platforms and frameworks such as WordPress, Symfony, Laravel, etc
• Exposure to other programming languages and common frameworks such as JavaScript (NodeJS, Express, React) or Python

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