Senior Drupal Developer - CraftCMS | AU | WFH

Set-up and Location: Work From Home | Philippines

Work Schedule: 9 AM - 6:00 PM (AEDT) | 6:00 AM-3:00 PM (PH Time)

Employment Type: Full-time

Ready to do work that actually excites you?

You will work closely with developers, technical leads, producers, UX/UI specialists, QA, and client stakeholders to deliver reliable, secure, maintainable, and well-documented solutions.

What You’ll Do

Key responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and enhance Drupal-based websites and applications.
• Build and maintain custom Drupal modules, themes, templates, and integrations.
• Support Drupal upgrades, including security updates, dependency updates, and major version upgrades.
• Diagnose and resolve production issues across existing client platforms.
• Work with inherited and legacy codebases, making pragmatic decisions about maintainability, risk, and technical debt.
• Where required, support CraftCMS platforms and develop familiarity with CraftCMS conventions, project structure, and deployment workflows.
• Contribute to platform improvements around performance, accessibility, security, editorial usability, and maintainability.

• Deliver high-quality PHP development using modern, object-oriented practices.
• Work confidently with Composer, dependency management, Git, and modern development workflows.
• Contribute to technical planning, estimation, implementation, testing, and deployment.
• Collaborate with technical leads to define appropriate technical approaches.
• Participate in peer reviews and provide constructive feedback to other developers.
• Write clean, maintainable, well-tested, and well-documented code. Process, documentation, and quality
• Follow agreed development processes, including source control, code review, release management, and deployment practices.
• Produce clear technical documentation for internal teams and client stakeholders.
• Contribute to support handovers, implementation notes, release notes, and technical decision records.
• Work within SDLC practices across discovery, planning, development, QA, release, and postrelease support.
• Understand and contribute to DevOps practices, including CI/CD, automated deployments, environment management, and rollback planning.

• Communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Help producers and client teams understand technical options, risks, and trade-offs.
• Work effectively in a support environment where priorities can shift.
• Take ownership of issues through investigation, resolution, documentation, and follow-up.
• Mentor and support other developers where appropriate.

Requirements

What You Bring

We’re looking for someone who has:

• 5–7 years of professional development experience, preferably on enterprise or complex CMS projects.
• Strong PHP development skills, including object-oriented programming and modern PHP practices.
• 3–5 years of Drupal experience, ideally with Drupal 8, 9, 10, or 11.
• Experience maintaining or upgrading Drupal sites, including major version upgrades.
• Strong understanding of Drupal APIs, configuration management, content modelling, permissions, editorial workflows, and integrations.
• Experience developing and maintaining custom Drupal modules and themes.
• Experience with Git and collaborative source control workflows.
• Experience with Composer and PHP dependency management.
• Experience working with LAMP/LEMP stacks: Linux, Apache/Nginx, MySQL/MariaDB, PHP.
• Good front-end development capability, including HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and responsive web development.
• Understanding of web performance, security, accessibility, and maintainability principles.
• Experience working across development, staging, UAT, and production environments.

• Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts clearly to nontechnical stakeholders.
• Strong documentation habits.
• Self-sufficient, proactive, and comfortable taking ownership of technical problems.
• Practical problem-solving mindset, especially when working with inherited systems or support constraints.
• Calm and methodical under pressure.
• Curious and willing to learn new platforms, tools, and approaches
• Collaborative, respectful, and comfortable working in a cross-functional team.
• Strong judgement around when to fix, refactor, escalate, document, or recommend broader technical change.

• The following are not mandatory but would be highly regarded:
• Experience developing or supporting CraftCMS websites.
• Understanding of CraftCMS content modelling, sections, fields, entries, globals, and asset management.
• Twig templating experience.
• Experience maintaining CraftCMS plugins or integrating CraftCMS with third-party systems.
• Familiarity with CraftCMS project config, environments, and deployment workflows.
• Experience with hosted platforms such as Acquia, Pantheon, Platform.sh, Craft Cloud, Servd, or similar.
• Experience with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, automated deployments, and environment management.
• Experience with Docker-based local development tools such as DDEV or Lando.
• Cloud platform knowledge, such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Experience with containerisation, such as Docker or Kubernetes.
• Experience with headless or decoupled Drupal architectures.
• Experience with APIs, GraphQL, REST, and third-party integrations.
• Knowledge of WCAG accessibility standards.
• Understanding of SEO best practices.
• Experience with e-commerce platforms or payment integrations.
• Agile/Scrum delivery experience.
• Contribution to Drupal, CraftCMS, or broader open-source communities.

• The role may involve working with:
• Drupal 8/9/10/11
• CraftCMS
• PHP 7.4+/8.x
• MySQL/MariaDB
• Apache/Nginx
• Composer
• Git
• Twig
• JavaScript, HTML, CSS
• DDEV / Lando / Docker
• CI/CD pipelines
• Cloud and managed hosting platforms
• CMS integrations, APIs, and third-party services

• A successful person in this role will:
• Quickly become effective across existing Drupal support clients.
• Confidently diagnose and resolve issues across complex Drupal environments.
• Support CraftCMS clients where required and build confidence in CraftCMS over time.
• Produce reliable, maintainable code that reduces future support burden.
• Communicate clearly with producers, developers, technical leads, and clients.
• Improve documentation, technical visibility, and delivery quality.
• Help mature Sitbackʼs Drupal support, upgrade, and platform hygiene practices.
• Bring senior judgement, not just senior technical output