Drupal Developer

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Reading Room is a user-led, data-centric digital transformation consultancy. It is the home for the curious! We believe that understanding users’ needs, motivations, and behaviours in relation to our clients’ products and services is the key to success.

We help all kinds of passionate brands and organisations to realise their digital ambitions. 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. 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.

We’re proud to be part of the independently owned Rippleffect Group, alongside RONIN International, a research consultancy which provides an even bigger toolbox for clients to collect data, understand their customers, and scale up in other countries.

The Role

Are you an experienced Drupal developer? Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to work at an award-winning, innovative digital consultancy? Are you smart, enthusiastic, and ready to help us architect modern, robust, and permanent software solutions? Then this is the opportunity you’ve been searching for!

• 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 shares this passion and enthusiasm.
• We will support you in developing your skills and hope that you will help us develop ours; we are receptive to new solutions and love finding innovative ways of delivering modern software solutions. If you have something to contribute, such as new technology or a streamlined process, we encourage you to explore and share your ideas.
• 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.

Ideal Profile

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.

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 websites
• Configuration Management
• Object Oriented Programming
• A good understanding of Drupal’s API, Custom module, and theme development
• API Integrations (REST/SOAP)
• A keen eye for security and performance
• Working with Git + follow a branching methodology

Nice to have:

• Apache / Nginx configuration
• Knowledge of Cloudflare or other CDN providers
• Knowledge of and application to Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Continuous Integration (Bitbucket Pipelines, Github Actions)
• Automated Testing (Unit testing, Behat, Cypress)
• Docker
• Exposure to SEO best practices

You 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.

What's on Offer?

• Opportunity to make a positive impact
• Great work environment
• Award-winning company
• International presence