(Contractor) Principal Drupal Developer

Join Sparq

At Sparq, we help companies solve the right problems—not just build more technology. We're a modern product engineering partner blending strategy, craftsmanship, and speed to help organizations modernize confidently in the age of AI. From data ecosystems to digital products and AI acceleration, we turn complexity into clarity and ideas into impact.

If you're driven to build what's next, lead with empathy, and deliver excellence without ego, you'll feel right at home at Sparq.

Why you will enjoy Mondays again:

• Opportunity to work alongside a talented, diverse team in a collaborative and creative environment
• Ongoing investment in your growth through training, mentorship, and industry certifications
• Hands-on exposure to cutting-edge technologies across multiple industries
• Recognition programs and employee awards within an inclusive culture that celebrates great work, including our AI Innovators Program
• Remote or hybrid work options

A Day in the Life:

• Serve as a senior technical voice for a Drupal-based e-commerce platform, providing architectural guidance, reviewing code, and helping the team make sound technical decisions with less reliance on a single tech lead.
• Design, develop, and maintain Drupal and Drupal Commerce solutions, including site configuration, custom module development, catalog management, checkout flows, payment integrations, and order management functionality.
• Lead complex full-stack development across PHP, Drupal, front-end technologies, and MariaDB/MySQL, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, performant, and aligned with modern engineering practices.
• Define and champion AI-assisted and agentic development workflows by establishing tooling, prompt strategies, development processes, and best practices that help accelerate team delivery.
• Actively leverage AI tools to streamline tasks, improve the quality of your work, and share best practices with teammates while continuously seeking new ways to integrate AI into your everyday workflows
• Partner closely with engineering, marketing, merchandising, and sales teams to translate business needs into reliable e-commerce features and platform enhancements.
• Mentor engineers through pull request reviews, design discussions, troubleshooting support, and technical guidance that builds broader team capability over time.
• Optimize front-end and back-end performance to support increasing site traffic, transaction volume, and overall platform reliability.
• Build and integrate custom Drupal modules and third-party services to extend platform functionality and improve the customer and business user experience.
• Maintain high engineering standards through testing, secure coding practices, thoughtful code reviews, Git workflows, and continuous improvement of development processes.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues across the full stack, including Drupal, PHP, front-end, database, integration, and commerce-related challenges.
• Stay current with Drupal, e-commerce, web security, performance, accessibility, cloud, and emerging AI development trends to help guide platform evolution.
• Participate in on-call rotations for critical production support and support occasional off-hours deployments when needed.

What it takes:

• Consultative approach and problem solving skills to successfully align digital solutions with long-term business goals of the client
• Hands-on experience using AI tools to enhance daily work, or a strong desire to do so, including a willingness to experiment, learn, and champion AI adoption within your role
• Commitment to understanding and exceeding client expectations
• Ability to perform project oversight and execution of deliverables
• Flexibility to adapt within a high-growth organization
• Ability to lead, mentor and motivate those around them
• Hunger for continuous learning and professional development
• Intellectual curiosity to provide creative solutions
• Full understanding of the software development life cycle
• Ability to positively impact fellow colleagues through effective leadership, presentations, coaching, etc.
• Desire to work in a team environment
• Good interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills

Regardless of your specific role, we seek individuals who are excited to explore, adopt, and evangelize AI tools and methodologies. If you have experience in AI or a proven track record of rapidly learning and mentoring others on emerging tech, you'll fit right in.

Equal Employment Opportunity Policy: Sparq is proud to offer equal employment opportunity without regard to age, color, disability, gender, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, military status, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic.

We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities and believe in an inclusive workplace. If you require reasonable accommodations to participate in the job application or interview process, please let us know by contacting View email address on click.appcast.io