Sr. Drupal Developer / Tech Lead

Salary: Varies by experience and location

Taoti Creative is looking for a Senior Back End Drupal Developer (Must be US Citizen) !

We are looking for someone thoughtful about their approach to solving technical problems. By 'thoughtful,' we mean someone who isn’t afraid to suggest alternative options, help steer client and project team towards the most sensible and elegant approach, and own their role as the technical expert on the project team with a deep stake in the success of the project.  A top notch developer and team player to join our awesome team full of smart, supportive, fun developers. A great communicator that works well both within the dev team and across department lines. For this role, we are open to in-house, remote, full time, and contractor status.

 Experience & Requirements 

• An expert-level grasp on Drupal 7, 8, and 9 who is comfortable with everything from site building to custom module development. 
• Experience with modern JS frameworks like Vue.js, REACT.js, etc., and architecting headless Drupal solutions 
• Experience with complex migrations 
• Extensive experience building custom integrations with external platforms such as CRMs and ID Management Platforms  
• Strong programming skills, and deep experience with PHP 7+, OOPHP, MySQL, Drupal's DB Abstraction Layer, etc. 
• Extensive experience site building in Drupal (custom views, entity references, complex workflows, SOLR search, etc.) 
• A deep level of comfort working with multiple other developers in a git workflow 
• A team player with strong written and verbal communication skills 
• Ability to navigate and manage multiple (sometimes competing) priorities 
• You are dependable 
• Acquia Certifications. Not all skills can be summed up by test results, but this set of certifications is something our clients often look for when they consider hiring us. 
• Familiarity with Pantheon, Amazee, and/or AWS for hosting 
• Experience using Lando, and/or other container-based environments  
• Experience with continuous integration tools (Circle CI)  
• A passion for DevOps 
• Comfort on the front end of the Drupal stack (working in twig templates, writing SASS and compiling it to CSS, etc.)  
• Experience with mapping tools like leaflet.js, MapBox, Google Maps, etc.  
• A love of puns. We're into puns. 

  

The Day to Day

• Plan back-end technical architectures that minimize or eliminate performance problems, complexity, or solution fragility. 
• Collaborate with UX and Design colleagues to review wireframes and designs in order to assist in planning a Drupal build that is thoughtful, elegant, robust, as well as realistic from a technical/timeline/budget perspective 
• Lead or assist with the technical planning, user story and technical acceptance creation, and coding. 
• Estimate LOE for tasks within a build, as well as one-off maintenance tasks for clients 
• Collaborate with other developers in order to build out robust, performant Drupal 9 websites, sometimes as the sole BE developer, sometimes as one of multiple BE devs, and possibly as a Lead Developer who guides and manages other devs contributing to the project (depending on the project in question and your experience)  
• At times, you may serve in a client-facing capacity on medium and large-sized projects. 
• Write custom modules, tackle integrations (ranging from simple to complex), and wrangle custom migrations from a variety of platforms into Drupal 8/9 sites.  
• Work alongside other talented developers while maintaining clean code within a version-controlled environment, utilizing pull requests and leaning on Circle CI to manage code merges and deployments 
• Manage Drupal configuration and deploy site changes within a composer-based workflow 
• Efficiently debug and correct Back End(PHP, MySQL, JS) issues.  
• Work independently or with limited oversight to create high quality applications that meet specifications. 
• Evangelize for best practices for back-end development. 

  

What it’s like to be part of the Dev Team at Taoti?  

Come for the work, stay for the people. We are a team of about 30 developers spread mostly across North and South America, with a couple of exceptions in Europe. We do our best to work 9-5 ET hours so we overlap with the rest of the (mostly Washington DC-based) office, but there is some flexibility here, especially if you live several time zones away from the US East Coast. Like any team of developers, we are excited to build out new, exciting, beautiful, and challenging technical solutions for our clients. We pride ourselves on being a supportive, inclusive, and team-minded group of people. We’ve got a robust slack culture full of dev questions and funny gifs, and your fellow devs are ever at the ready to jump in and help if you hit a snag. We have weekly team meetings focusing on discussing our practice areas and how to improve them. Every day we are trying to be better than we were before, whether in big leaps or baby steps. When not in the middle of a global pandemic, we have annual retreats where we fly all our remote people in to headquarters for a week of company bonding. We celebrate birthdays, beg for peeks at your pup or kitty or adorable child, cheer over your big life moments, and generally do our best to be the kind of team we all want to be part of.   

What’s the corporate culture like?  

“Fun but focused,” as one Taotian put it, is a great way to sum up our culture. We’re a fun and casual shop. The kind of place where you can wear whatever, come and go as you please, and have autonomy over your own day for the most part. But we take the work seriously and believe deeply in the mission to make meaningful and measurable impacts for our clients. All the perks and shenanigans and borderline irreverent tone are fun, but to really fit in here you need to be about the work. We believe in something we call our “QIST Culture.” Quality. Innovation. Service. And Teamwork. We are always striving to improve these four areas (to the extent that we have a fund of a quarter million dollars per year that anyone can spend from in the interest of going above and beyond towards any of these four values. We also believe in total transparency and open communication across teams and across ranks. Instead of chain-of-command, we want everyone to have and share their own voice. Every other Thursday, the CEO holds ‘CafeClutch’ just so he can hear ideas and feedback directly from the team instead of through the filter of management. Want to see what life at Taoti looks like? Check out our Instagram or ‘about us’ video. There’s even a 360 tour of the office.  

  

What about benefits?  

(Note: The below are benefits for local W2 employees. Benefits vary for remote and international folks due to logistical and legal reasons. Also, some of our usual fun activities (like boat rides) are on hold until the pandemic is over.)  

  

• 5+ weeks of PTO (including 11 holidays). This number goes up automatically with each year of tenure. 
• 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance. (50% for qualifying dependents.) And we have good insurance.  
• Paid family leave for men and women (including PTO plus short and long-term disability options.)  
• 3% retirement plan matching (plus access to a financial advisor).  
• Home buyer help (including a $1200 closing credit)  
• Mobile phone reimbursement  
• You can opt for a company-supplied PC or Mac laptop. Or if you want to use your own, we’ll reimburse you for it.  
• Charitable contribution matching  
• Tax-free metro benefits  
• A sincere respect for work/life balance  
• Money and time off allocated for professional development (also increases with tenure)  
• A diverse team hailing from over 15 countries last time we checked  
• A very hip/cool/funky/quirky office space on Barracks Row, in the heart of Capitol Hill. Just 2 blocks from the metro! (With the office space doubling in size next year as we build a new building in the parking lot next door to our building.)  

 Of course, the above is a quick list. See the handbook for all the gory details.  

     

A bit more about Taoti…  

Established in 1996, Taoti Creative is a boutique, full-service creative agency located on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. We are privately owned and have no corporate overloads (nothing personal, WPP.) We do stuff like web development, social media management, branding, experiential marketing, video, AR/VR, etc. Our mission is to ‘move the needle’ for our clients. We leverage technology, creativity, and innovation to generate meaningful and measurable results for our clients—that’s what drives us. Speaking of clients, they’re about 60% non-profits, 20% commercial, and 20% federal government. Some of our customers include World Bank, USAID, DC Water, Discovery Education, American Chemical Society, Jane Goodall Foundation, and dozens of ‘National Association of _____________,’ etc. Our full-time team of about 60 hails from over 12 countries. And for the last four years in a row, we’ve made the Inc5000 list of fastest growing companies in the United States. There’s of course plenty of additional information on our website. If you’ve not done so already, be sure to check out our culture video: https://vimeo.com/289302105. Or if you’re feeling virtual, here’s guided tour of the office in 360 video! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7KkzdmSGTM (Warning: not suitable for printers.)  

  

Next Steps 

If you’re qualified and interested, please apply on our website (https://www.taoti.com/careers).  Please note that these job ads often get placed onto other websites with their own application systems (we’re looking at you Jooble!) and some sites (looking at you Indeed!) have made up random salary ranges. We can't respond to applications who don’t come through our own website.  

Pretty please, no recruiters.

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