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.

Who are we and why should you join us?

BetterHelp is on a mission to remove the traditional barriers to therapy and make mental health care more accessible to everyone. Founded in 2013, we are now the world’s largest online therapy service, providing affordable and convenient therapy in across the globe. Our network of over 30,000 licensed therapists has helped millions of people take ownership of their mental health and change their lives forever. And we’re not stopping there – as the unmet need for mental health services continues to grow, BetterHelp is committed to being part of the solution.

As a Senior Database Engineer at BetterHelp, you’ll join a diverse team of licensed clinicians, engineers, product pros, creatives, marketers, and business leaders who share a passion for expanding access to therapy. And as a mental health company, we take employee mental health just as seriously as we do our mission. We deeply invest in our team’s well-being and professional development, because we know that business and individual growth go hand-in-hand. At BetterHelp, you’ll carve your own path, make an immediate impact, and be challenged every day – with a supportive community behind you the whole way.

What are we looking for?

We’re looking for a Senior DBE to join our team, our first hire focused solely on database architecture and performance. This person will own the health, performance, and scalability of our databases, and play a critical role in shaping how we manage data across all environments.

You’ll be working alongside DevOps engineers, developers, and leadership to ensure our Aurora MySQL environments are highly available, performant, and ready to scale. If you live and breathe query tuning, love designing resilient schema for massive scale, and want to help teams ship fast without causing chaos, you’ll love it here.

We’re looking for someone who cares and wants to be involved in our product, mission, and success, way beyond just running queries. And of course, at BetterHelp you will enjoy true teamwork and lots of fun!

What will you do?

• Own the architecture, availability, and performance of our Aurora MySQL clusters.
• Design and maintain strategies for obfuscating and replicating production databases to pre-production environments at scale.
• Troubleshoot slow queries, hot tables, lock contention, and other complex performance issues.
• Work with engineers to review, improve, or rewrite inefficient queries generated by Eloquent/Laravel.
• Design schema and data modeling strategies that can evolve without risking downtime.
• Weigh in on foreign key usage and implement sane policies that balance safety with maintainability.
• Monitor and tune backup, restore, and disaster recovery processes.
• Provide guidance on Redis usage and data patterns where applicable.
• Help influence the engineering roadmap, even when it means others need to adapt workflows.
• Participate in on-call rotation for major database incidents.

What technologies will you work with?

• Aurora MySQL
• AWS (RDS, EC2, S3, DMS, etc.)
• Redis (Elasticache)
• Laravel / Eloquent (PHP)
• Percona / CloudWatch / Coralogix for monitoring
• Terraform (infrastructure as code)
• Bash + automation tooling

What will you NOT do?

• You will NOT worry about "runway", "cash left", or "how much time we have until the next round". We have the startup DNA but we're fully backed and funded, all the way to success.
• You will NOT be confined to your "job". You will get involved in product, marketing, business strategy, and almost everything we do.
• You will NOT be bogged down by office politics, ego, or bad attitude. Only positive, pleasure-to-work-with people are allowed here!
• You will NOT get yourself burned out. We work hard but we believe in maintaining a sustainable work/life balance. Really.

Can I work remotely?

Yes. We operate on PST and candidates in any time zone are welcome to apply. We ask employees to travel to our San Jose, CA office up to three times per year plus one company-wide offsite to collaborate in person and strengthen working relationships. Travel expenses are covered and reasonable accommodations are made for those under unique circumstances who cannot travel.

Requirements

• 5+ years of DBA/DBE experience managing production-grade relational databases at large scale.
• Deep MySQL/Aurora internals knowledge, from slow queries to replication lag and everything in between.
• Strong experience with AWS-native database solutions and data tooling.
• Familiarity with Laravel or PHP-based ORM query behavior.
• Experience managing and monitoring databases with tens or hundreds of billions of rows.
• Pragmatic and persuasive communicator who can align teams on technical decisions.
• Strong Bash scripting and automation mindset.
• Bonus: Experience with Redis at scale.

Benefits

• Remote work with regular in-person bonding experiences sponsored by the company
• Competitive compensation 
• Holistic perks program (including free therapy, employee wellness, and more)
• Excellent health, dental, and vision coverage
• 401k benefits with employer matching contribution
• The chance to build something that changes lives – and that people love
• Any piece of hardware or software that will make you happy and productive
• An awesome community of co-workers

The base salary range for this position is $130,000 - $180,000. In addition to the base salary, this position is eligible for a performance bonus and the extensive benefits listed here (subject to eligibility requirements): Teladoc Health Benefits 2025. Total compensation is based on several factors – including, but not limited to, type of position, location, education level, work experience, and certifications. This information is applicable to all full-time positions.

At BetterHelp we thrive on difference and individuality, and as part of the Teladoc Health family, we are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We never have and never will discriminate against any job candidate or employee due to age, race, ethnicity, religion, sex, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, medical condition, marital status, parental status, disability, or Veteran status.

Who are we and why should you join us?

BetterHelp is on a mission to remove the traditional barriers to therapy and make mental health care more accessible to everyone. Founded in 2013, we are now the world’s largest online therapy service, providing affordable and convenient therapy in across the globe. Our network of over 30,000 licensed therapists has helped millions of people take ownership of their mental health and change their lives forever. And we’re not stopping there – as the unmet need for mental health services continues to grow, BetterHelp is committed to being part of the solution.

As a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer at BetterHelp, you’ll join a diverse team of licensed clinicians, engineers, product pros, creatives, marketers, and business leaders who share a passion for expanding access to therapy. And as a mental health company, we take employee mental health just as seriously as we do our mission. We deeply invest in our team’s well-being and professional development, because we know that business and individual growth go hand-in-hand. At BetterHelp, you’ll carve your own path, make an immediate impact, and be challenged every day – with a supportive community behind you the whole way.

What are we looking for?

We're looking for a talented, motivated, smart individual with a passion for software engineering, a strong desire to learn and an interest in providing mentorship to junior level developers. This position is ideal for a seasoned software engineer who has worked on multiple challenging projects, someone who is not afraid to write code to scratch an itch. We love technology and so should you.

What technologies will you work with?

We use a combination of well established and more recent technologies, always innovating, always experimenting. We’re open to new ideas and novel approaches! Our current tech stack is:

• Backend: Linux, nginx, Laravel (PHP), MySQL, Redis
• Frontend: Twig (PHP templates), Bootstrap 3, jQuery, HTML5, CSS3/SASS, and Next.js / React

What will you do?

• You will develop end to end. You own your features and see them through to production and beyond.
• You will develop best practices and write clean, secure, readable, scalable code. OOP where appropriate.
• You will collaborate with other team members - engineers and others.
• You will integrate and build for external and internal API's.
• You will develop new products in PHP and alter existing PHP code to accommodate scale and integration with new technologies and APIs.
• You will write and optimize SQL queries and design schemas.
• You will create and code complex backend algorithms.
• You will profile and optimize new and legacy code.
• You will use CSS and Javascript to complete functionality of new products.
• You will always be thinking cross-device and cross-platform, mobile, tablet and desktop.
• You will ship often and fast. We keep an agile environment with continuous deployment.
• You will care and be involved in our product, mission, and success - way beyond checking off development tasks.

What will you NOT do?

• You will NOT worry about "runway", "cash left", or "how much time we have until the next round". We have the startup DNA but we're fully backed and funded, all the way to success.
• You will NOT be confined to your "job". You will get involved in product, marketing, business strategy, and almost everything we do.
• You will NOT be bogged down by office politics, ego, or bad attitude. Only positive, pleasure-to-work-with people are allowed here!
• You will NOT get yourself burned out. We work hard but we believe in maintaining a sustainable work/life balance. Really.

Can I work remotely?

Yes. We operate on PST and candidates in any time zone are welcome to apply. We ask employees to travel to our San Jose, CA office up to three times per year plus one company-wide offsite to collaborate in person and strengthen working relationships. Travel expenses are covered and reasonable accommodations are made for those under unique circumstances who cannot travel.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in web development (any stack), solving challenging problems and implementing new features from scratch.
• 3+ years of experience in SQL. Designing relational DB schemas, complex queries, etc.
• Deep understanding of web development concepts and principles.
• Example of full-stack projects.
• At least one major demonstrable project with front-end code, back-end code and database.
• Ability to design, develop and launch a web application from start to finish.
• Ability to learn quickly and pick up new skills independently.
• Get-things-done attitude with eagerness to build something great.
• Familiar with web & SQL security best practices.
• Comfortable working outside the context of a framework. Frameworks can help you get some things done more quickly, but we find it helpful if candidates are comfortable working outside of a framework so they have a good understanding of what is going on behind the scenes first.
• Experience using git in a team environment.
• Ability to work in the US, to travel to our Mountain View, California offices up to three times per year and to an additional company offsite.

Benefits

• Remote work with regular in-person bonding experiences sponsored by the company
• Competitive compensation 
• Holistic perks program (including free therapy, employee wellness, and more)
• Excellent health, dental, and vision coverage
• 401k benefits with employer matching contribution
• The chance to build something that changes lives – and that people love
• Any piece of hardware or software that will make you happy and productive
• An awesome community of co-workers

The base salary range for this position is $110,000 - $185,000. In addition to the base salary, this position is eligible for a performance bonus and the extensive benefits listed here (subject to eligibility requirements): Teladoc Health Benefits 2026. Total compensation is based on several factors – including, but not limited to, type of position, location, education level, work experience, and certifications. This information is applicable to all full-time positions.

At BetterHelp we thrive on difference and individuality, and as part of the Teladoc Health family, we are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We never have and never will discriminate against any job candidate or employee due to age, race, ethnicity, religion, sex, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, medical condition, marital status, parental status, disability, or Veteran status.