Drupal Backend Engineer

Role Description

At Fearless, the Consultant, Engineering & Technical Services collaborates with cross-functional Agile teams to deliver high-quality, secure, and maintainable systems for a federal health care platform serving approximately 11 million monthly users. Leveraging strong Drupal 11 backend expertise, this role builds and maintains custom modules, APIs, and configurations that power resilient, scalable digital services. The successful candidate pairs technical proficiency with a clear understanding of the mission context, translating requirements into secure, performant solutions while upholding engineering best practices.

This Consultant collaborates with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality, secure, and maintainable systems across all stages of the software and data lifecycle. This role is instrumental in delivering secure, efficient, and scalable solutions that directly impact the success of projects, teams, and organizational goals.

This role will possess and/or develop the skills to be able to span the domains of software development, data engineering, infrastructure automation, information assurance, and AI/ML integration at a practical application level of proficiency. This Consultant role will work on projects that allow them to contribute across the entire technology stack—software, infrastructure, data, AI, and security—to ensure quality, speed, and innovation in delivery.

This position requires candidates to obtain and maintain a federal Public Trust clearance and satisfy all CMS residency requirements.

Your Responsibilities in this Role:

• Design, develop, and maintain Drupal 11 custom modules, APIs, and configurations that support high-quality, scalable web services
• Review and contribute to merge requests, ensuring code quality, security, and adherence to development standards
• Identify and remediate security vulnerabilities and performance issues within codebases
• Develop code collaboratively within Git repositories using forks, branching workflows, and conflict resolution best practices
• Manage and maintain DDEV Docker-based local development environments
• Write and execute Cypress and PHPUnit tests; document implementation and testing steps within tickets
• Apply efficient debugging practices using tools such as Xdebug to accelerate development and maintain code integrity
• Contribute to Drupal 11 frontend development tasks, including theming and Twig templating, as needed
• Communicate and demo Drupal concepts and technical solutions clearly to both technical and nontechnical audiences
• Participate fully in Agile ceremonies and support sprint delivery within a remote team environment

The Impact You Will Create in this Role:

Fearless Impact:

• Collaborates with cross functional teams
• Earn the trust of your customer and teammates by delivering world class services.
• Be reliable completing assigned objectives on time.
• Alert your teammates and supervisor immediately when you think a deliverable is at risk.
• Gather intelligence and listen to what your client, other people within the customer’s organization and other contractors say about your project, and report back to your Fearless teammates and supervisor (whether it’s good, bad or just informational).

Fearless Customer Impact:

• Deliver expected outcomes relative to high quality code and maintainable systems
• Offer and implement innovative solutions that include engineering best practices through new tools, frameworks and methodologies
• Serve as a trusted advisor in your area of expertise

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Drupal development experience
• Demonstrated knowledge of Drupal 11 concepts, architectures, APIs, and commonly used contributed modules.
• Experience developing Drupal 11 custom modules
• Demonstrated ability to recognize and resolve security and performance issues in code
• Demonstrated experience with Gitflow workflows, Git conflict resolution, creating merge requests, and reviewing merge requests
• Experience working in and managing DDEV Docker-based local development environments
• Proficiency with efficient debugging practices (e.g., Xdebug)
• Comfortable writing Cypress and PHPUnit tests
• Some familiarity with Drupal 11 frontend development (theming, Twig)
• Comfortable writing implementation and testing steps for tickets
• Strong communication skills; comfortable demoing Drupal concepts to technical and nontechnical audiences
• Proven experience working remotely in team environments, both collaboratively and independently
• Proficiency with VS Code or PHPStorm, Jira, Confluence, Slack, Zoom, and Microsoft Teams
• Drupal.org username required
• Ability to obtain and maintain Public Trust clearance

Preferred Skills & Experience:

• Experience with GitHub Copilot; efficient usage and ability to review AI-generated code
• "Contrib first" mindset; appreciation for open-source community engagement and generalizing custom code for contribution
• Examples of community-contributed (preferred) or custom Drupal 10/11 code

Benefits

• Flexible, life-friendly schedules
• 100% coverage for our medical HSA plan + HSA contributions
• Dental & vision covered 100% for you and your dependents
• Competitive premiums for HMO/PPO and dependent coverage
• 401(k) with 4% match & immediate vesting
• Paid Parental Leave and 12 weeks paid FMLA
• Generous PTO, 11 Federal Holidays, a Birthday Holiday, and Sick Leave
• Up to 15 days for Jury Duty and Bereavement Leave
• Education, wellness, and tech allowances
• Referral bonus: $6K–$12K for each successful referral
• Pet insurance & discount plans
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Legal support, life insurance, disability coverage
• Performance-Based Bonuses