Big Blue Door is a creative digital development and hosting agency with substantial experience in developing and maintaining high quality, high impact websites and digital products in complex, multi-stakeholder environments in an Agile manner. We specialise in working with public and third sector organisations, both large and small, utilising Drupal as our preferred Content Management Framework, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) as our preferred hosting partner.
Our client base is primarily public sector organisations, including Government departments, Local Councils, NHS, and Education bodies, with both public-facing websites and Intranets. The work we undertake is very varied, and includes a number of backend integrations with third-party APIs.
We manage projects through the entirety of the SDLC, from discovery, research, and creative design, through to the build phase, and finally through to training, support, ongoing maintenance, and hosting. We are Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partners , but also have hosting spread across other providers including Azure and Google Cloud Platform.
About the role:
We're looking for an experienced full stack developer to join our team, and help deliver projects through their entire lifecycle. This role will also include mentoring more junior members of the team.
This role will be split across new (greenfield) projects and legacy client work, with some clients still operating on Drupal 7. All of our new builds are in Drupal 8/9. Some of our newer projects are headless (we use React).
As an agency with multiple concurrent work strands across different technologies and frameworks, we expect our developers to work across a number of projects during a normal working week.
Essential skills:
- Five or more years commercial experience with Drupal (7&8)
- Experience of designing and consuming APIs and Web Services (SOAP / REST), including knowledge of security concerns and mitigations
- Sysadmin experience configuring LAMP/LEMP stack
- Experience with configuring CI software, such as Jenkins
- Great written and face to face communication skills (we will expect regular client interaction)
- Proven experience in working across multi-disciplinary teams in an agile manner
- A dedication to exceeding coding standards and undertaking independent professional development
- Ability to support and mentor other team members
- The ability to work on-site in our London Bridge office, Mon-Fri. (Please see note at the top of this specification relating to COVID-19)
- Fluent English and excellent communication skills as part of the role may be client-facing.
Desirable skills: Backend / DevOps:
- Demonstrable experience custom coding on other PHP CMSs (OOP or procedural).
- Symfony or Python/Django experience may be beneficial.
- Ability to write or configure custom automation tasks with scripting tools, e.g. Bash/Perl/Python
- Experience configuring virtualisation for development processes, e.g. Docker/Vagrant
Frontend / design:
- Front-end JS framework (React, Next, Angular) experience beneficial.
- CSS Preprocessing - SASS/SCSS and build tools (e.g. Compass / Node / Yarn).
- Use and understanding of task runners - Gulp and Grunt.
- Experience with Adobe suite (Photoshop / Illustrator / Fireworks) or similar (Sketch) - in taking design files and applying them to HTML/CSS. Design skills not required.
Other skills:
- Version control using Git - particularly via CLI. We use the gitflow model.
- A proven ability to work on multiple development strands in a given period.
- Drupal (Acquia) certifications.
- Experience of building to Accessibility Standards, particularly WAI / WCAG.
- Understanding of SOA, experience with Web Services (XMLRPC / JSON / SOAP / REST / GraphQL), both designing and consuming.
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- Flexible working
- Macbook Pro
- 28 days annual leave [inclusive of bank holidays, increasing by one day every year (up to ten years)]
- 'Open fridge' policy including free lunch and wine/beer
- Season ticket loan scheme
- Interesting and varied projects!
- Professional development training, including annual week in Europe for DrupalCon (or similar)
- Friendly and supportive environment
- Technical Test
- Video Call with Managing Partners / Tech Lead
- Offer!
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