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As a Backend Drupal Developer for a remote position with 5+ years of experience, your role will involve designing, building, and maintaining a scalable, secure, and headless Drupal backend. You will work on exposing content via APIs for seamless integration with modern frontend frameworks, while collaborating closely with frontend and product teams in an agile environment. **Roles & Responsibilities:** - Develop and maintain headless Drupal 10/11 backends for frontend integration. - Expose content via GraphQL, REST, and JSON: API for consumption by frontend applications. - Design and manage content types, fields, paragraphs, taxonomies, and view modes. - Build custom modules and extend Drupal core functionalities using hooks and services. - Configure and optimize Elasticsearch/Solr search for scalable, high-performing search solutions. - Collaborate with frontend developers (Next.js and similar) to support component-driven development. - Implement SEO-friendly, multilingual, and accessibility-compliant configurations. - Apply performance tuning, API caching, and backend security best practices. - Participate actively in agile ceremonies (sprint planning, demos, retrospectives). - Conduct peer code reviews and enforce coding/documentation standards. **Mandatory Requirements:** - 5+ years of backend development experience with Drupal 10/11. - Strong expertise in headless/decoupled Drupal architectures. - Proven experience with GraphQL, REST, and JSON: API. - Hands-on experience with content structures (content types, view modes, fields, paragraphs, taxonomies). - Strong background in custom module development, Drupal hooks, and services. - Experience integrating and querying Elasticsearch/Solr. - Proficiency with Drush, Composer, Acquia Cloud, Git, DDEV, and CI/CD pipelines. - Knowledge of Drupal and API security best practices. - Ability to work independently and collaborate in a remote agile team. - Familiarity with multilingual, SEO-friendly, and accessibility-compliant content structures. - Experience in caching, performance tuning, and securing API endpoints. - Strong communication skills (verbal and written). - Experience conducting peer reviews and maintaining documentation standards. **Nice to Have:** - Experience with API versioning, rate-limiting, and token-based authentication (OAuth2/JWT). - Knowledge of Varnish, Redis, and CDN integration for performance optimization. - Experience with automated testing in Drupal (PHPUnit/Behat). - Prior experience collaborating with Next.js frontend teams. - Exposure to Content Staging, Multi-site architectures, or content governance workflows.,
