Back-end Drupal Developer

Company: Fastspot LLC.
Location: Baltimore
Posted on: November 8, 2024

Job Description:

Back-end Web Developer (Drupal)
We are looking for an experienced back-end developer to join our team in building large, complex websites. If you want to work closely with a team who shares your passion for innovation, craftsmanship, and problem solving, please get in touch.
About the Job
Your job as a developer at Fastspot will be to work with a team of strategists, designers, and developers to tackle difficult challenges with an eye toward delivering high quality, creative solutions. We are a team full of interdisciplinary creators. No one at Fastspot has just one responsibility. We all have our specialties, but our true strength comes from involving the whole team in all phases of our work. By combining our talents, our clients get the best of everything we have to offer.
You will be responsible for:

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• Working with designers and strategists to convert designs and functional requirements into beautiful, highly performant sites;
  
• Producing well-organized code and elegant CMS architecture solutions;
  
• Reviewing your team members' code for standards and quality assurance;
  
• Making decisions based on best practices and user experience, both from a front-end and back-end focus.
  
  The ideal candidate will have talent and creativity, a discerning eye, a strategic mind, a good attitude, and a passion for what we do. We are looking for someone who can speak intelligently about their ideas and decisions and who excels at making those ideas into real, usable, and innovative solutions.
  Requirements
  
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  • Must have 5+ years of relevant experience (e.g. past or current positions at interactive agencies, work on large websites with complex systems)
    
  • Specific experience architecting and building complicated, large-scale Drupal sites/applications (Drupal 10 experience is a must)
    
  • Extensive knowledge of the Drupal 10 API system, including building custom modules and themes
    
  • Experience with Drupal site optimization and caching techniques
    
  • Deep understanding of and extensive experience with developing best practice, unit test-driven, object-oriented PHP
    
  • Skilled at relational database systems (preferably MySQL) and writing SQL, HTML, and Javascript (CSS/SASS are a plus!)
    
  • Experience using PHP frameworks for site/application development (e.g., Symfony 2, Laravel)
    
  • Demonstrated experience building large, complex sites with third-party API integrations
    
  • Portfolio demonstrating your ability to produce well-organized, standards-compliant code
    
    Benefits
    This is a full-time position. Fastspot is a hybrid workplace, we maintain an office in Baltimore but do not require employees to live or work from this location, it is purely optional, however many Baltimore-based employees choose to go in on certain days to be together. Travel is required, to one or two-day client visits as well as attending quarterly team meetings, annual all-company retreats, and fun events.
    Fastspot offers a full benefits package including:
    
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    • minimum 120 hours of paid time off
      
    • flexible schedule
      
    • company supplied Mac laptop, second monitor, keyboard, mouse, laptop stand.
      
    • equipment policy, we recycle our machines and keep everyone running newer machines
      
    • generous office closure days around the fall/winter holidays
      
    • 401(k) with company match
      
    • profit sharing program
      
    • annual home office stipend
      
    • annual travel stipend
      
    • company paid lunch once a week for in-office crew, once a month for remote employees
      
    • healthcare with vision and dental options at little to no cost to the employee (depending on age)
      
    • company HSA
      
    • employer-paid life, short-term, and long-term disability insurance policies
      
    • support for preferred pronouns in HR software and in public-facing communications
      
      Office Perks
      
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      • free pool and gym at the office campus at Mill No. 1
        
      • fully-paid Fastspot fun events throughout the year including the annual company baseball outing, family barbecue, and holiday party
        
      • cute dogs in the office
        
      • complimentary coffee and soft drinks
        
      • pool table, virtual reality, and full bar
        
      • all-gender bathroom
        
      • privacy room for nursing mothers
        
        Fastspot is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless of factors such as sex, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, ability, physical appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, nationality, culture, class, age, or faith.
        How to Apply
        If you are interested in this full-time position with Fastspot, please fill out our application form and be sure to include your resume and a cover letter. We would love to hear more about why you want the job and why you're the perfect match for us.
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