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This position is open to applicants in the US and Canada

ABOUT OUR COMPANY

Kanopi Studios is a Design, Development & Support Agency with a fully distributed team of people who are experts in Drupal & WordPress.

Our clients have a mission; we design, build and support websites that help their mission thrive.

But we want our employees to thrive as well. Because our team members do great work for great clients, Kanopi works hard to support them in their careers as they continue to create a better web.

As a result, our business continues to grow, and so must our team. We’re excited to announce this opportunity to join our team as a Drupal Developer.

ABOUT THE JOB

As a Drupal Developer, your day-to-day includes spending your time hands-on developing and collaborating on sites while staying accountable to schedules, estimates, project requirements, and high standards of quality. This position is fast-paced, deals with shifting priorities, and reports to Jim Birch, Drupal Engineering Manager.

Requirements

Your typical work week might include:

• Drupal site building and configuration.
• Custom front end and theme layer development.
• Custom module development, and the maintenance of existing custom code.
• Documenting code and processes, and participating in peer reviews.
• Participating in client meetings and workshops.
• Actively contributing to the continual improvement of our processes and product.
• Most importantly, having fun working with an incredible team!

ABOUT THE COMPENSATION & WORK REQUIREMENTS

This is a full-time position. The salary range for this position is $66,100 - $91,300 - the range is broad, but it is commensurate with experience, aligned with current members of our team with similar experience, and may shift a bit depending on your geographic location. This is a 100% remote role, but you must live and be able to work in the US or Canada.

NOW... LET'S TALK ABOUT YOU!

We are looking for candidates who…

• Have 3+ years of related Drupal experience. Front-end experience strongly preferred.
• Are experienced working in support (and are willing to do it).
• Have worked in an agency environment, preferably in multiple time zones.
• Show strong problem solving abilities, intelligence, and initiative.
• Know the ins and outs of modern development workflows, including use of the command line, gitflow, containers, and dev/stage/prod environments.
• Deeply understand modern web standards and technologies.
• Exhibit thoughtful, inclusive, and articulate communication skills, both in writing and in person.
• Have a BS or MS in Computer Science, or equivalent work experience.
• Have some WordPress or React.js experience (this would be an awesome plus).

At Kanopi, we believe a variety of backgrounds, experiences, and voices make for a better workplace. We strongly and enthusiastically encourage people of color, individuals who identify within and beyond the LGBTQ+ spectrum, women, and people with disabilities to apply.

This position is open to applicants in the US and Canada
 

ABOUT OUR COMPANY

Kanopi Studios is a Design, Development & Support Agency with a fully distributed team of people who are experts in Drupal & WordPress.

Our clients have a mission; we design, build and support websites that help their mission thrive.

But we want our employees to thrive as well. Because our team members do great work for great clients, Kanopi works hard to support them in their careers as they continue to create a better web.

As a result, our business continues to grow, and so must our team. We’re excited to announce this opportunity to join our team as a Senior Drupal Engineer.
 

ABOUT THE JOB

As a Senior Engineer at Kanopi Studios, you are instrumental in delivering outstanding digital experiences to our clients. This role is varied and can include anything from deeply technical custom integrations to strategic improvements on existing sites. Your day-to-day includes spending your time hands-on developing and collaborating on sites while staying accountable to schedules, estimates, project requirements, and high standards of quality.

Your typical work week might include:

• Understanding the business goals and needs of your clients for sites you support.
• Making smart technical design decisions and tradeoffs that consider your clients’ business requirements.
• Expertly crafting custom front- or back-end solutions in Drupal
• End-to-end responsibilities for engineering work on complex projects.
• Contributing to our common code libraries.
• Writing tests and contributing to test cases.
• Technical planning and execution of new features on existing sites.
• Building against an established suite of user stories for large-scale projects.
• Proactively identifying issues and technical limitations and communicating clearly across agency functional areas.
• Clearly document code and processes to communicate your technical decisions.
• Mentoring new and developing engineers.

ABOUT THE COMPENSATION & WORK REQUIREMENTS

This is a full-time position. The salary range for this position is $75,400-$105,600 - the range is broad, but it is commensurate with experience, aligned with current members of our team with similar experience, and may shift a bit depending on your geographic location. This is a 100% remote role, but you must live and be able to work in the US or Canada.

NOW... LET'S TALK ABOUT YOU!

Requirements

We are looking for candidates who…

• Have 5+ years of related Drupal experience. Front-end experience strongly preferred.
• Have worked in an agency environment, preferably in multiple time zones.
• Demonstrate knowledge of industry trends.
• Show strong problem solving abilities, intelligence, and initiative.
• Strong debugging skills.
• Demonstrate knowledge of modern development workflows, including use of the command line, gitflow, containers, and dev/stage/prod environments.
• Deeply understand modern web standards and technologies.
• Exhibit thoughtful, inclusive, and articulate communication skills, both in writing and in person.
• Have a BS or MS in Computer Science, or equivalent work experience.
• Have some React.js or Vue experience (this would be an awesome plus).

At Kanopi, we believe a variety of backgrounds, experiences, and voices make for a better workplace. We strongly and enthusiastically encourage people of color, individuals who identify within and beyond the LGBTQ+ spectrum, women, and people with disabilities to apply.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design and develop reusable templates for web and email campaigns
• Build and maintain customize templates/widgets on Drupal CMS
• Maintain and support multiple teams for our intranet sites
• Design and turns storyboards into animated HTML5 banner ad campaigns
• Collaborate with design team and deliver the projects on time
• Lead testing and QA for multiple ongoing projects
• Participate in design reviews with key stakeholders and should be able to communicate with clear instructions
• Work on AWS CloudFront. Develop, deploy and maintain websites through AWS console
• Maintain branding and graphic standards throughout the company’s websites through well-organized style sheets
• Help lead our usability standards based on a strong knowledge of industry best practices
• Write well-designed, testable, efficient code by using best software development practices
• Provide fast and accurate level of effort estimates for ongoing projects
• Create and handle Jira tickets, work on Confluence-Wiki sites
• Work closely with different teams in the organization
• Add value to the organization by learning & adapting to new technology trends

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree
• 2+ years with Drupal CMS experiences
• 5+ years demonstrated ability in web development using HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, Drupal, Wordpress, ASP.Net and/or PHP.
• Ability to code for cross-browser compatibility, and sites that require security/authentication. Strong ability to code for responsive designs using bootstrap libraries
• Working knowledge on SQL, Amazon RDS and Google analytics
• Demonstrate experience in web API development and security implementation 
• Expert at handling and publishing media assets (graphics/video) through CDNs
• Experience integrating social media services into websites
• Demonstrated background coding for email campaigns including landing pages across all client/device/browser combinations

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS

• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (focus on Photoshop, Illustrator)
• Familiarity with .NET platforms
• Working knowledge of Sketch

One of Esteemed's clients is seeking a contract-to-hire, full-stack, decoupled Drupal developer for a contract-to-hire engagement. State or municipal government experience is a plus!

Fully remote, must be able to work in the US on W2 without sponsorship. No C2C.
 

> About You

You are capable of navigating multiple projects in various stages of development. You like a dynamic environment where sometimes you’ll be focussed on new green-field projects, other times feature development on in-progress projects and other times maintenance efforts. You are up-to-date with what is new with Drupal 8 and 9 and may have experience with upgrade scenarios. You are comfortable with Drupal patching and maintenance. You know the core APIs and have a good awareness of the go-to external modules. Experience with decoupled or headless implementations is a plus.

You love taking (sometimes ambiguous!) client requirements and translating them into Drupal best-practice patterns. You have great communication skills, good attention to detail and a strong sense of high-quality product.

High-quality to you means:

• well aligned to internal designs and to the client’s vision
• a clean and reliable user experience 
• high levels of accessibility
• consistency both within the current project and with industry best practices
• highly testable and tested
• reusable to enable increased efficiency in the future
• maintainable both from a development perspective, and also from a client perspective

Our projects are centered around our teams. We do more than speak the Agile lingo, we strive for a truly agile culture. A background of working with Scrum or Kanban is a plus but what’s really most important is having experience and willingness to work in a highly collaborative team setting. An important part of our team focus involves being able to coordinate work with the rest of the team. A valuable skill is being able to identify large blocks of functionality from requirements and design artifacts and break them down into suitable features and tasks.

As much as you have an eye for detail, you have an eye on the future. Application development is constantly evolving so we’re looking for someone to bring some new skills and capabilities to our existing teams. Whether you have an opinion on some of the emerging light-weight CMSs or have A/B testing experience to bring a more data driven approach to decision making we value the unique perspectives you can bring to our existing teams.

One of Esteemed's clients is seeking an experienced Drupal DevOps Engineer, for a potential long0term contract role!

*This role is fully remote within the US, no C2C*
 

As a Drupal DevOps Engineer, you have a solid grasp of the Drupal hosting configurations, build processes and automation of deployments. You have a strong focus on business outcomes, are comfortable with collaborating with team members through all stages of a project, and can reach across functional borders to get the job done.

As a Dev Ops Engineer, you can expect to:

• work on a variety of projects ranging in both size and scope
• work in a dynamic, collaborative environment
• work with and support our software development teams
• automate build and deployment process
• work with clients on hosting and launch requirements
• configure high availability hosting configurations in Amazon Web Services

As a DevOps Engineer, you will bring:

• Experience with Drupal architecture, best practices, and coding standards
• Experience with Drupal administration, config management, and security updates
• Experience with Drupal build processes using composer
• Strong Linux administration skills
• A solid understanding of TCP/IP networking, DNS and HTTP(s)
• A thorough understanding of security best practices
• Experience with high availability hosting configurations
• Experience with relational databases such as MySQL
• A thorough understanding of Git and branching strategies
• A positive attitude and strong work ethic
• An ability to quickly ramp on new technologies

Skills that would make you really stand out are:

• Experience with custom high availability hosting configurations using AWS and Azure
• Experience with Pantheon and Acquia hosting and automation
• Experience with Docker and Lando
• Experience with BitBucket Pipeline, GitHub Actions or other build automation and continuous integration systems
• Drupal testing with tools such as PHPUnit, Visual Regression Tests (boostrap.js), cypress etc,
• Experience with Active Directory, LDAP and SSO solutions
• Experience with automation and configuration management tools

*Required Skills

• You’ve got a strong grasp on Drupal (8/9) and are 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
• You have experience with complex migrations
• You have extensive experience building custom integrations with external platforms such as CRMs and ID Management Platforms
• You have 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
• You work well with others and have strong written and verbal communication skills
• You are able to navigate and manage multiple (sometimes competing) priorities
• You are dependable

Nice to have

• 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.

Things you'll do on the job

• 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.

The challenges of this role…
Like any dev role, balancing timelines, budgets, requirements, and customer happiness is always a challenge. Because this is a senior level role, we generally expect you to be able to get up to speed quickly and be self-sufficient for the most part. You’ll be working in a team of 3-6 other developers under a Technical Manager who helps your team deliver its work. At any given time, you may be working on several projects at the same day, so jumping back and forth between projects is always a challenge in an agency environment, but we try hard to let developers focus more time on fewer projects when we can, as we understand that’s how we become more efficient as a group.

One of Esteemed's agency clients is seeking an Acquia-certified Drupal 8 developer for a 3 month contract.

Role + Responsibilities:

• In this role, you will apply your experience with back-end migrations using Drupal 8 and 9, Symfony and Acquia.

A qualified Back-end Drupal Developer has:

• Demonstrated experience with Drupal 8 and 9.?

• Demonstrated experience with PHP, Symfony and Acquia

• Experience. 3+ years of related experience

About this position:

• Remote.

• Government Clearance. the government will determine an applicant's eligibility to perform work under this contract. You must be a United States citizens and have a personal background free from issues to gain government clearance.