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.

Acquia empowers the world’s most ambitious brands to create digital customer experiences that matter. With open source Drupal at its core, the Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) enables marketers, developers, and IT operations teams at thousands of global organizations to rapidly compose and deploy digital products and services that engage customers, enhance conversions, and help businesses stand out.

Headquartered in the U.S., Acquia is positioned as a market leader by the analyst community and is listed as one of the world’s top software companies by The Software Report. We are Acquia. We are a global company with employees located in more than 30 countries, and we’re building for the future. We want you to be a part of it!

The opportunity

Help us define what AI-era marketing sites look like.

At Acquia, we power the digital experiences of the world's most ambitious brands through Drupal and our suite of digital experience products. Our own site, Acquia.com, is where that story lives — and it's about to change in a big way. AI is rewriting how people discover, explore, and decide on B2B software, and we want a designer who is excited to shape what that looks like in the open.

This is not a "make the page pretty" role. It's a craft-led, system-minded, build-it-yourself role for a senior designer who wants real ownership of a flagship B2B web property and a real seat at the table as we redesign the site for an AI-first audience.

What you'll own

Acquia.com — craft, brand, and creative range

You'll set the visual and experiential bar for Acquia.com. We want bolder, more playful, more confident work than a typical B2B site. You'll translate brand and product positioning into web experiences that make Acquia feel as ambitious as the brands we serve, and partner closely with our Brand & Creative team to keep identity tight while pushing the web expression forward.

A modern, component-based design system

You'll co-own our web design system alongside Brand & Creative. We're moving toward a Tailwind + React component foundation built on top of Drupal. You'll define and document the components, patterns, and tokens, hold the line on consistency and accessibility, and make the system something Brand, Marketing, and Dev all want to build with.

AI-era web design

Roughly 40% of this role is forward-looking AI design work. You'll lead how Acquia.com adopts AI-generated and AI-assisted surfaces — personalized hero treatments, dynamic copy patterns, content generated against guardrails — and define the design language for what is generated, how it's signaled to the visitor, and how we keep quality high. You'll also lead the team's adoption of AI-assisted design and build tools (Figma AI, v0, Cursor, Claude, Lovable, and what comes next), turning them into a real velocity advantage instead of a novelty.

Design and build

You'll design and ship. We want a designer who can take a concept from sketch to live page without long handoff loops — Tailwind and React fluency, fluent in modern CMS authoring, able to reach into custom HTML/CSS and lightweight JS where the system falls short. You won't be the only person who can ship code, but you'll be the designer who can.

End-to-end ownership

You'll own the full arc — the brief, the concept, the system implications, the build, the measurement, and the iteration. We're looking for someone who comes with a point of view about where the site should go and the credibility to argue for it.

Who you'll work with

• Brand & Creative on identity, photography, illustration, and large campaigns
• Web development engineers on build, performance, and technical implementation
• Marketing campaigns and demand gen on landing pages, conversion experiences, and launches
• The wider ADX leadership team on the roadmap for Acquia.com and our AI surface area

What success looks like in your first year

• Acquia.com visibly stands out from our B2B SaaS peers — measurably better engagement and conversion, and work the team is proud to point at
• The web design system is live, documented, adopted across Brand, Marketing, and Dev, and reduces friction on every new launch
• The team's design-to-ship velocity is meaningfully higher because of how you've integrated AI tooling — without dropping the quality bar

What we're looking for

• 5+ years designing for the web, with senior-level ownership of at least one complex site or property
• A portfolio that includes a shipped B2B SaaS or enterprise web project, a design system or substantial component library you helped build, and a point of view about where web design is heading
• Strong visual design instincts with creative range — illustration, motion, layout, type — and the confidence to push beyond the safe B2B template
• Working fluency with Tailwind and modern React component patterns, and willingness to write the code, not just spec it
• Comfort with Figma as a daily driver and with Adobe Creative Suite when the work calls for it
• Real accessibility chops — WCAG 2.1 AA as a default, not a checkbox at the end
• Curiosity and demonstrated experience with AI-assisted design and build workflows, and an opinion about how to use them well
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills, fluent in English, comfortable presenting work to leadership and defending the choices behind it
• Self-directed: this is a remote role on a senior team, and we trust you to set the pace

Nice to have

• Direct experience with Drupal or other enterprise CMS platforms
• Background designing for AI-native or agentic experiences
• Front-end engineering experience beyond Tailwind/React (build tools, design tokens, component testing)
• A track record of evolving a brand's web expression — not just executing against an existing one

Our interview process

• Recruiter screen
• Hiring manager conversation
• Portfolio deep-dive with the ADX team
• Practical design exercise — focused on creative range, system thinking, and how you partner with AI tools, not just polished pixels
• Final round with cross-functional partners

We are an organization that embraces innovation and the potential of AI to enhance our processes and improve our work. We are always looking for individuals who are open to learning new technologies and collaborating with AI tools to achieve our goals.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by local law, regulation, or ordinance.

About the Role

Join forces with Appnovation to deliver high-impact results for one of our key strategic partners - a global leader in their field. This engagement offers a unique vantage point into a world-class organization with exceptional opportunities for professional growth and long-term career advancement

As a Senior AI Software Engineer, you'll transform business ideas into production-ready applications using cutting-edge AI design tools and modern full-stack frameworks. With a strong bias toward frontend development, you specialize in the critical early stages—from concept through pre-totype to prototype—where design systems meet AI-augmented development. You are a visionary technologist who sits at the intersection of engineering excellence and AI innovation. Your mission is to oversee the entire "concept-to-production" pipeline, ensuring our teams leverage cutting-edge AI tools to deliver enterprise-grade applications at unprecedented speeds.

While you maintain a deep technical foundation in full-stack development, your primary focus is strategic leadership: defining design system standards, optimizing AI-augmented workflows, and mentoring a high-performance team of developers and AI builders.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic AI Integration: Direct the adoption of AI design tools (v0.dev, bolt.new, Lovable) to compress the development lifecycle from weeks to days without sacrificing quality.
• Architecture & Standards: Define and enforce the technical standards for production-ready full-stack applications, ensuring scalability, performance, and accessibility across all projects.
• Design-Dev Synthesis: Lead the integration of Figma-based design systems with AI-driven development to create seamless, automated handoff processes.
• Operational Excellence: Manage a ticket-driven workflow in Jira, optimizing team velocity and ensuring technical documentation meets enterprise-level requirements.
• Cross-Functional Partnership: Act as a bridge between Strategy, Creative, and Technology departments to ensure AI-powered solutions meet complex business objectives.
• Backend & Data Strategy: Oversee the implementation of robust backend services (Supabase, SQL/NoSQL) and secure authentication frameworks (OAuth, JWT) across the portfolio.
• Design and implement RESTful APIs and backend services using platforms like Supabase to support frontend functionality.
• Collaborate with UX Designers, AI Builders, and Innovation Leads throughout the development lifecycle.

Qualification

• 6–10+ years in full-stack development, with at least 3+ years in a management capacity. Bonus points if you have experience working in a startup or rapid prototyping environment.
• Proven track record of implementing AI design tools(such as v0.dev, bolt.new, Lovable, or similar platforms) and workflow automation (e.g., N8N) within a professional engineering team.
• Deep expertise in modern frameworks (React, Vue, Nuxt), TypeScript, and multiple backend languages including Python, PHP, and NodeJS.
• Expert-level knowledge of design systems, design tokens, and CSS frameworks (Tailwind) to ensure brand consistency at scale.
• Comprehensive understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), deployment workflows, and enterprise security patterns.
• Solid understanding of backend development, including API design (REST, GraphQL), server-side logic, and database management.
• Proficiency with authentication mechanisms (OAuth, JWT) and security best practices.
• Expert-level proficiency with Figma, including design system management and component libraries.
• A portfolio demonstrating not just individual code, but the leadership of complex, full-stack applications built using AI-augmented methodologies.
• Strong attention to detail and a passion for innovation.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.

What Appnovation Offers

• Challenging and rewarding work with real impact
• Growth opportunities for personal and professional development
• Exposure to exciting projects and high-profile clients
• Supportive work environment with access to company leaders
• Hybrid working model

Here are a few more reasons why you should apply:

• Work-life Balance
• Lots of opportunities for personal and professional growth
• Health Benefits Package
• Mental Health Support
• Personal Days Off
• Fertility and Menopause Leave
• Fitness Allowance
• D,E&I Initiatives
• And much more...