Intermediate Drupal Developer

***Note that this position is a contract role, with an option to go full-time***

Position Summary

This individual will play a hands-on role in architecting, developing, and maintaining Drupal-based interactive web projects. Detail-oriented, highly organized, and analytical, you are responsible for building scalable Drupal solutions, implementing custom modules, managing CMS configurations, and supporting ongoing enhancements across active client properties.

You must have a strong understanding of the software development lifecycle and be able to communicate project status, issues, and resolutions clearly and effectively.

We work in an agency environment with multiple clients, so communication skills, breadth of experience, multi-tasking across several projects, and passion for modern web technologies are paramount qualities in our ideal candidate. You will collaborate closely with account, creative, UX, and project management teams while also partnering with client IT teams and external vendors when needed.

Core Skills

• Strong experience with Drupal 9/10 (site building and custom development)
• Experience building and maintaining custom Drupal modules
• Proficiency in PHP and Drupal API
• Experience with Drupal theming (Twig, custom themes, component-based development)
• Strong knowledge of HTML5, CSS3, and modern JavaScript
• Experience working with RESTful APIs and third-party integrations
• Experience with Composer and Drupal dependency management
• Experience with Git-based source control workflows
• Familiarity with MySQL and relational database concepts
• Experience with Drupal configuration management and deployment workflows
• Understanding of web accessibility (WCAG) and SEO best practices
• Experience troubleshooting and debugging Drupal applications
• Ability to configure and deploy Drupal web applications
• Working knowledge of Apache and/or Nginx environments

Additional Skills Considered

• Experience with decoupled/headless Drupal architecture
• Familiarity with React, Vue, or other modern JS frameworks
• Experience with AWS (EC2, S3, CloudFront, IAM)
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated deployments
• Experience with Docker-based local development environments
• Knowledge of Acquia, Pantheon, or other Drupal hosting platforms
• Experience with multi-site Drupal environments
• Familiarity with performance optimization and caching strategies (Varnish, Redis)
• Experience working in regulated industries (healthcare, life sciences, etc.)

Competency

• Highly collaborative with strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
• Leads by example in concise communication and quality-driven development
• Active participant in code reviews and QA workflows
• Ability to multi-task across multiple client projects simultaneously
• Comfortable interacting with client IT teams during technical discovery
• Ability to investigate and recommend technical solutions for varied project needs
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to clean, maintainable code
• Familiarity with Agile, Scrum, and/or Waterfall methodologies

Essential Functions

• Develop custom Drupal modules and themes
• Configure and maintain Drupal CMS features and content structures
• Translate business requirements and creative designs into functional Drupal solutions
• Implement third-party integrations (APIs, marketing tools, CRM systems, etc.)
• Maintain and update legacy Drupal codebases
• Participate in architecture discussions and technical planning
• Perform code reviews and contribute to best practice standards
• Support deployment processes and troubleshoot production issues
• Optimize Drupal performance and caching configurations
• Code, test, and support database-driven web applications
• Provide technical assistance to creative and UX teams as needed
• Assist in producing accurate tasks and project estimates
• Recommend solutions based on best practices and independent judgment
• Stay current on Drupal core updates, contributed modules, and security releases
• Contribute to documentation and internal knowledge sharing

General Requirements

• This job description should be treated as a guide to the duties that the post holder is expected to perform.
• The description may be amended to meet the changing requirements of the agency.
• All employees are required to be aware of their responsibilities toward Health and Safety and adhere to company policies.

Bonus/nice-to-have Skills

• AWS Lambda
• React JS
• PHP Object-oriented Development (think CodeIgniter MVC frameworks)
• Bootstrap Boilerplate
• SQL
• WordPress Core & Plugins Development
• Tailwind CSS
• Python
• Linux (preferably RHEL)
• SAML Experience

Minimum Required Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, MIS, related field, or equivalent experience
• Work Experience: 3–5 years of professional Drupal development experience

Regularly Interacts With

Account, Creative, UX, Creative Services, Planning, Project Management, and Client IT teams.

Role Summary: 

You’ll lead how AI actually works at OfficeSpace—not as a side project, but as a core system. As a Full-Stack Software Engineer, you will contribute to the evolution of our AI platform from production-ready chat experiences to agentic workflows that operate safely at enterprise scale. You’ll build, harden, and scale systems that connect AI services, a Rails backend, and a React frontend—while setting the technical bar for performance, reliability, and integrity. 

We move fast. We expect precision. And we trust you to own outcomes. 

What You’ll Do: 

• Build out OfficeSpace’s AI platform—starting with our customer-facing chatbot and extending into agentic workflows and MCP server capabilities. 

• Design and operate Python-based AI services that integrate deeply with our Ruby on Rails backend and React frontend. 

• Partner with AI agents to accelerate development, testing, debugging, and code reviews.  

• Orchestrate AI-assisted workflows to generate, validate, and optimize production-ready code.  

• Deliver clean, well-tested features across multiple projects—on time and at high quality.  

• Optimize applications across browsers, devices, and environments—making smart trade-offs.  

• Work across data layers, from relational databases (MariaDB) to search and caching systems (Redis, Elasticsearch), to Vector DBs. 

• Contribute to evolving best practices in AI-augmented software development. 

What You Bring: 

• 3–5 years of backend development experience with Ruby on Rails or Python.  

• Experience building AI features is a plus 

• Strong proficiency in JavaScript (ES6+) and modern React development.  

• Experience building and scaling production-grade web applications.  

• Solid understanding of databases—relational and exposure to NoSQL systems.  

• Ability to work across multiple projects and deliver with consistency.  

• Experience or exposure to GraphQL is a plus.  

• AI fluency—comfortable using AI tools for coding, debugging, testing, and documentation.  

• Strong problem-solving skills and the judgment to balance speed vs. quality.  

• A builder mindset—you take ownership, move fast, and continuously improve how work gets done. 

Why You'll Love This Role: 

As a Senior Site Reliability Contractor, you will be involved in coding infrastructure automation with Terraform and Github Actions CI/CD. In this role, you will focus on improving our monitoring using Datadog, Sentry, and Cloudwatch. It will be critical to improve and automate our release processes to deploy Newsela services. You will have the opportunity to develop a rapport with a domain of application developers to improve infrastructure and monitoring for Newsela services in their ownership

What You'll Be Doing:

• Be on an on-call rotation to respond to incidents that impact Newsela.com availability and provide support for developers during internal and external incidents 
• Maintain and assist in extending our infrastructure with Terraform, Github Actions CI/CD, Prefect, and AWS services
• Build monitoring that alerts on symptoms rather than outages using Datadog, Sentry and CloudWatch
• Look for ways to turn repeatable manual actions into automations to reduce on-call toil
• Improve operational processes (such as deployments, releases, migrations, etc) to make them run seamlessly with fault tolerance in mind 
• Design, build and maintain core cloud infrastructure on AWS and GCP that enables scaling to support thousands of concurrent users
• Debug production issues across services and levels of the stack 
• Provide infrastructure and architectural planning support as an embedded team member within a domain of Newsela’s application developers 
• Plan the growth of Newsela’s infrastructure 

About You:

• Technical

  • Infrastructure as code: use Terraform and Github CI/CD for automation, containerize our environments (Docker, ECS), and leverage cloud technologies to meet our goals
  • Systems: manage, configure and troubleshoot operating system issues, storage (block and object), networking (VPCs, proxies and CDNs), and administer high-availability datastores (mySQL, Postgres, Neo4J) and Redis clusters
  • Monitoring and instrumentation: implement metrics in Datadog, Sentry, log management and related systems, and Slack/JIRA integrations
  • Engineering practices: availability, reliability and scalability, as well as disaster recovery
  • Work in a variety of languages: Shell, IaC, Python, SQL

  Execution

  • Planning: familiarity with agile methodologies; use epics, issues to drive projects
  • Organization: personal and team workload organization, OKR leadership
  • Management: able to self-organize and accomplish tasks asynchronously

  Collaboration and Communication

  • Leading and contributing to scope and designs for issues, epics, and OKRs
  • Contributing to Newsela architecture diagrams, process diagrams and runbook documentation
  • Completing Root Cause Analysis (RCA) investigations and perform readiness reviews
  • Improving team practices through code reviews, handoffs of work and incidents

  Influence and Maturity

  • Knowledge sharing, mentoring within SRE and developer teams
  • Self-awareness, handling conflict in the team, providing and receiving feedback
  • Maintaining good relationships with other engineering teams at Newsela that help improve the product
  • Accountability: willing to proactively step in and do the right thing while providing candid and constructive feedback
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Please note that given the nature of the contract, this role will not be eligible to participate in company-sponsored benefits.

Why you’ll love working at Newsela:

• Health & Wellness: Comprehensive medical benefits with employer contribution to premiums and to HSA accounts. Additional benefits such as gym reimbursement, pet insurance, free access to the Calm app, Rocket Lawyer and more to help you stay healthy: mind, body, and soul. 
• Work From Home: We are a fully remote company. We provide a monthly tech stipend to support your WFH needs!
• Supporting ALL Families: Inclusive benefits to support you and your family, including parental leave, fertility support, adoption, and more! 
• Financial Wellbeing: Invest in your future with our 401(k) plan, which includes a employer match to help you build long-term financial security.
• Time Off: Flexible PTO, paid sick time off, company holidays plus winter break (Dec 24th - Jan 1st).
• Professional Development: Newsela offers an annual learning and development allowance to employees to attend external training sessions, classes, workshops, conferences, and educational materials to foster professional growth within their current role and career aspirations at Newsela.
• Make A Difference: No matter your role or department, the work you do each day helps share the future of education and improves the lives of students and teachers.

About Newsela:

Newsela is a leading education technology company dedicated to meaningful classroom learning for every student. We deliver integrated, AI-powered solutions designed to unlock student engagement, empower teachers, and drive meaningful learning outcomes. Our suite of products supports knowledge and skill development, writing practice, daily instruction, assessment, and data-informed decision-making across K–12 classrooms. Grounded in learning science research, Newsela’s solutions integrate content, assessment, and analytics to help educators track progress, understand student outcomes, and deliver high-impact instruction that supports every learner.

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Role Summary:

As a Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer at OfficeSpace, you will play a pivotal role in designing, developing, and optimizing innovative software solutions. Your work will directly contribute to a high-performance, AI-driven technology environment, focusing on using Ruby on Rails for backend development and React for frontend development to deliver scalable, user-focused applications.

What You’ll Do:

• Full-Stack Development:  Develop and enhance applications using Ruby on Rails and React. Focus on creating scalable and maintainable solutions with user-centric designs.
• Drive High-Impact Solutions:  Contribute to the development and maintenance of solutions emphasizing performance, reliability, and maintainability. Work with technologies like Google Cloud Platform and BigQuery for efficient data management and analytics.
• AI & Data-Driven Innovation: Leverage AI-powered tools to streamline processes, improve user experiences, and enhance development workflows.
• End-to-End Ownership & Quality Shift-Left: Collaborate on code quality, applying test-driven development and embedding quality checks throughout the development process.
• Performance Optimization: Assist in identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks to enhance speed and reliability.
• Security & Technical Integrity: Proactively address security concerns and contribute to maintaining a high standard of code integrity.
• Collaborative Development: Work closely with team members, including junior engineers, to share knowledge, provide constructive code reviews, and implement best practices.

What You’ll Bring:

• Technical Expertise: 5+ years of full-stack development experience, with strong proficiency in Ruby on Rails and React..
• API Development: Familiarity with GraphQL or RESTful API design and implementation.
• Cloud and Data: Exposure to cloud technologies like Google Cloud Platform and experience with databases such as MariaDB or NoSQL systems (e.g., Redis, Elasticsearch).
• Performance Optimization: Understanding of application performance metrics and strategies for improvement.
• AI & Automation: Familiarity with AI tools to automate tasks and improve efficiency.
• Team Collaboration: Demonstrated ability to collaborate within agile teams, working closely with product managers and designers to deliver high-quality solutions.
• Mentorship: Some experience mentoring junior developers is a plus.

Información Importante 

Ubicación: Costa Rica

Modalidad de trabajo: Híbrido

Resumen del puesto 

Como un Senior Full Stack Developer (Ruby, React & Python) (19946), formarás parte de un equipo tecnológico y ágil altamente calificado por respaldar y desarrollar soluciones de vanguardia para cumplir con los requisitos de nuestro negocio. Nos ayudará a acelerar los resultados empresariales de nuestros clientes mediante la innovación de productos digitales de vanguardia. 

Responsabilidades y Funciones 

• Diseñar, desarrollar y mantener soluciones robustas utilizando Ruby on Rails asegurando calidad, escalabilidad y buenas prácticas de arquitectura
• Participar activamente en decisiones técnicas, proponiendo mejoras y asegurando estándares de desarrollo alineados a un entorno senior
• Colaborar con equipos multidisciplinarios aportando comunicación clara, criterio técnico y liderazgo informal
• Optimizar rendimiento y estabilidad de aplicaciones mediante el uso eficiente de bases de datos, motores de búsqueda y sistemas de procesamiento asíncrono

Requisitos y Habilidades 

• Experiencia avanzada en Ruby on Rails
• Dominio avanzado de MySQL incluyendo modelado y optimización de consultas
• Experiencia intermedia trabajando con React
• Experiencia intermedia con Redis y Sidekiq para manejo de procesos asíncronos
• Experiencia intermedia con ElasticSearch para búsquedas y optimización de consultas
• Conocimiento intermedio en Python con disposición real para seguir desarrollándose en este lenguaje
• Conocimiento deseable en TypeScript
• Experiencia en diseño de arquitecturas escalables y buenas prácticas de desarrollo
• Excelentes habilidades de comunicación y capacidad para interactuar con stakeholders técnicos y no técnicos
• Alta proactividad, pensamiento crítico, autonomía y capacidad de toma de decisiones técnicas

Acerca de Encora 

Encora es el socio preferido de ingeniería digital y modernización de algunas de las principales empresas del mundo y empresas nativas digitales. Con más de 9,000 expertos en 47+ oficinas y laboratorios de innovación en todo el mundo, las prácticas tecnológicas de Encora incluyen Ingeniería y Desarrollo de Productos, Servicios en la Nube, Ingeniería de Calidad, DevSecOps, Datos y Análisis, Experiencia Digital, Ciberseguridad e Ingeniería de IA y LLM. 

En Encora, contratamos profesionales únicamente en función de sus habilidades y calificaciones, y no discriminamos en función de la edad, discapacidad, religión, género, orientación sexual, estado socioeconómico o nacionalidad. 

Important Information 

Location: Costa Rica

Work Mode: Hybrid

Job Summary 

As a Senior Full Stack Developer - Ruby on Rails, React & Python (19946), you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining high-quality software solutions. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and translate them into scalable and efficient software applications. Your role will involve leading technical projects, mentoring junior engineers, and continuously improving software development practices to ensure the delivery of robust and reliable software systems.  

Responsibilities and Duties 

• Design, develop, and maintain full stack applications with a strong focus on backend development using Ruby on Rails
• Build and enhance frontend components using React to deliver seamless user experiences
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into scalable and high-quality technical solutions
• Drive technical decisions, mentor team members, and contribute to continuous improvement of development practices

Qualifications and Skills 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• 5+ years of experience in full stack software development
• Strong expertise in Ruby on Rails and MySQL for backend development
• Experience building frontend applications using React
• Experience working with tools such as Redis, Elasticsearch, and Sidekiq
• Intermediate experience with Python or willingness to learn and work with it
• Familiarity with TypeScript is a plus
• Strong understanding of software architecture, scalability, and performance optimization
• Excellent communication, problem-solving, and decision-making skills
• Proactive mindset with strong ownership and ability to work independently and in teams

About Encora 
 
Encora is a global company that offers Software and Digital Engineering solutions. Our practices include Cloud Services, Product Engineering & Application Modernization, Data & Analytics, Digital Experience & Design Services, DevSecOps, Cybersecurity, Quality Engineering, AI & LLM Engineering, among others.  

At Encora, we hire professionals based solely on their skills and do not discriminate based on age, disability, religion, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, or nationality.  

About Backblaze

Backblaze provides reliable, high-availability cloud storage trusted by consumers, SMBs, enterprises, and developers in over 150 countries. Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage supports data-intensive workloads including backup, media, analytics, and modern AI pipelines. Our teams focus on building secure, durable, scalable systems with a strong emphasis on application security from day one and protecting customers to keep them safe.

But while there is a lot to celebrate in our past, there is almost as much opportunity ahead of us.

About the Role

We are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer for our Foundation Services Team. This team focuses on the essential services that power identity, access, and integrations. In this role, you will build and maintain highly available APIs designed to manage the orchestration of users and resources at scale.

We are looking for an engineer who is eager to use the latest AI tools to streamline architectural design, accelerate coding, and enhance system security. We value versatility and are looking for someone comfortable designing and working across any technology as our needs evolve.

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop highly scalable, performant services and APIs in a Java ecosystem.
• Implement code for authentication, account management, and external partner integrations.
• Integrate AI coding agents and frameworks into your workflow to accelerate development, refactor legacy components, and improve code quality.
• Own the full technical lifecycle, including estimation, design, development, and delivery.
• Collaborate across the organization to ensure project success. You will often engage with QA, Finance, Marketing, Product Management, Support, and Security to gather necessary context and requirements to implement solutions correctly.
• Diagnose complex issues and maintain the stability of large-scale systems.
• Collaborate across functional teams and provide technical leadership to foster engineering excellence.

Required Qualifications:

• A strong track record of proven project deliveries and successfully shipping complex software systems.
• 7+ years of experience with Java and a deep understanding of backend architecture.
• Professional experience incorporating AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Gemini, Cursor, Claude Code) into your engineering workflow.
• Experience with modern data, containerization, and observability:

- Vitess, Cassandra, and Redis backend development.
- Docker and container-based environments.
- Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenSearch.

• Comfortable working in a cross-platform environment (we develop on MacBooks for software that runs on Linux).
• Solid understanding of HTTP principles and secure access best practices.
• A strong desire to learn and adapt to rapidly changing technologies and tools.

Why Backblaze

• Build secure software used by companies worldwide
• Work at the intersection of AI, data, and cloud storage
• Collaborate with experienced engineering, security, product, and QA teams
• Competitive compensation and benefits
• Remote-first culture supporting work-life balance

At this point, we hope you're feeling excited about the job description you're reading. Even if you don't meet every requirement, we still encourage you to apply. Learning, developing, and growing are key parts of our culture. We're eager to meet people who believe in our mission and can contribute to our team in various ways. We want people to feel comfortable expressing their true selves and to come, stay, and do their best work here.

At Backblaze, we value being fair and good to our customers, partners, and employees. That’s why diversity, equity, and inclusion are at the core of our values. We are committed to fostering a workforce where all employees feel a sense of belonging regardless of race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, socio-economic status, ability, veteran status, and education. We believe that our dedication to cultivating a diverse workspace not only allows us to better serve our customers in over 175 countries but further reinforces our commitment to doing the right thing. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.

To understand more about the data we collect and process as part of your application, please view our Backblaze Employee Privacy Notice.

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About the Role

As a Senior Full Stack Engineer, you will primarily design and build backend services while possessing the adaptability to support frontend development when necessary. You will evolve the core API layer and downstream services, delivering secure, performant REST APIs. You will lead technical design reviews, improve service reliability, and collaborate across the stack to ship features end-to-end. While your focus is on the backend, you may step into frontend codebases (Angular/React) to unblock delivery and ensure a cohesive user experience.

Your Area of Focus

• Own and evolve platform APIs and services, ensuring low-latency, resilient endpoints for client applications.
• Design and implement Spring Boot microservices using modern patterns (contract-first APIs, layered architecture, DTO mappers, caching).
• Integrate with platform services (appointments, patients, messaging, authentication) via service/domain contracts and RESTful clients.
• Improve reliability and performance with caching (e.g., Ehcache, Redis, etc.), connection management, and efficient data access.
• Implement observability (structured logging, metrics, tracing) and automate build/deploy pipelines.
• Write robust tests across layers (unit, component, contract, integration) using JUnit/TestNG and assist with frontend testing where applicable.
• Mentor engineers, lead design reviews, and document patterns to drive consistency across the stack.
• Contribute to frontend interface development using HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript frameworks (Angular/React) to support team velocity and feature integration.

Professional Qualifications

• 5+ years of software development experience building Java services in production.
• Expertise with Spring Boot and REST API design; comfortable with contract-first development and layered service architectures.
• Ability to adapt and contribute to modern frontend frameworks (such as Angular or React) when business needs dictate.
• Experience building and consuming service/domain contracts and integrating external/partner APIs.
• Proficient with data modeling and access patterns; capable of optimizing queries, caching, and serialization for high-performance applications.
• Hands-on with mapper/generation tools (MapStruct/Lombok), dependency management (Maven), and build plugins for quality.
• Proficient in automated testing: unit, integration, component, contract, and performance testing.
• Solid understanding of messaging and async patterns (e.g., ActiveMQ/Kafka), feature flags, and configuration management.
• Strong focus on observability, performance profiling, and resilience (timeouts, retries, circuit breakers, idempotency).
• Demonstrated ability to leverage AI-assisted tools (e.g., Codex, GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT) to accelerate coding, debugging, and boilerplate generation.
• Practical experience with GenAI/LLM integration in backend systems
• Competence in frontend web technologies including HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills; able to explain design tradeoffs to technical and non-technical partners.

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About Backblaze

Backblaze is the object storage leader in the open cloud movement, fueling customer success with cloud storage built purposefully to unlock budgets, unburden administrators, and unleash innovators. Together with our partners, we’re helping customers break free from the restrictive, overpriced legacy solutions that hold them back, and blaze forward with the full power of the open cloud in their hands.

Founded in 2007, we scaled the business with less than $3 million in outside funding until 2021, when we did a traditional IPO on the Nasdaq stock exchange. Today, Backblaze generates over $100m in revenue and is the leading specialized storage cloud - managing over three billion gigabytes of data storage for 500K+ customers in 175+ countries, including businesses, developers, IT professionals, and individuals.

But while there is a lot to celebrate in our past, there is almost as much opportunity ahead of us. We’re seeking a Sr. Data Infrastructure Engineer to join our team!

What You'll Do:

• Design, configure and maintain data solutions such as Vitess, Apache Cassandra, NATS, Redis/ValKey
• Work closely with Operations and Application Engineers to develop new solutions and optimize existing ones
• Improve production system scalability, performance, and availability
• Deliver enhancements to observability, operability and reliability to lower TCO

Qualifications:

• 7+ years of experience in databases, eventing systems, or distributed caching systems
• Experience in Linux environments

Bonus Points:

• Kubernetes experience
• Experience running systems at cloud scale
• Familiarity with automation tools (Ansible)

At this point, we hope you're feeling excited about the job description you're reading. Even if you don't meet every requirement, we still encourage you to apply. Learning, developing, and growing are key parts of our culture. We're eager to meet people who believe in our mission and can contribute to our team in various ways. We want people to feel comfortable expressing their true selves and to come, stay, and do their best work here.

At Backblaze, we value being fair and good to our customers, partners, and employees. That’s why diversity, equity, and inclusion are at the core of our values. We are committed to fostering a workforce where all employees feel a sense of belonging regardless of race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, socio-economic status, ability, veteran status, and education. We believe that our dedication to cultivating a diverse workspace not only allows us to better serve our customers in over 175 countries but further reinforces our commitment to doing the right thing. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.

To understand more about the data we collect and process as part of your application, please view our Backblaze Employee Privacy Notice.

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