Lead Developer, Web Development

POSITION OVERVIEW:

Farm Journal is seeking a Lead Developer for our Content Platform team focused on iterating on our detached Drupal CMS solution. This position requires a combination of modern back-end and front-end web development practices, solid leadership, strong mentoring of junior team members and clear and concise communication skills. An understanding of the entire web development process, from discovery to post-deployment, is required. Expect this role to be 80% in the trenches behind a keyboard, with the remainder participating in discovery, planning, posts-deployment maintenance and team management.
 

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Front and back end development w/ HTML5, SASS, PHP and jQuery
• Assist in prioritization of ticket requests.
• Perform discovery activities and architect technical solutions with emphasis on future proofing.
• Collaborate with product and project managers, and other internal teams.
• Lead internal and external development activities. Reviewing and
• Propose technical solutions to business needs
• Drupal core support and upgrades
• Drupal module development and support
• New feature set design/implementation
• Overall CMS optimization, code review and stability
• Testing, maintenance and troubleshooting of existing company sites
• Optimize site performance
• Review and lead technical implementations from external Drupal developers
• Hosting environment set up and configurations
• Identify and assist in resolution of issues related to data quality, integrity, accuracy, consistency and completeness.
• Support activities to harmonize, standardize, and globalize processes.

 

EDUCATION/SKILLS/PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Core Competencies:

• Analytical
• Curiosity
• Strategic Origination

Technical Skills:

• 5+ years of experience with back-end web development (PHP, MySQL)
• 5+ years of experience with front-end web development (HTML, JavaScript, CSS, jQuery)
• 3+ years of experience with Drupal, with at least 1 year spent on Drupal 8
• 2+ years of experience with ad serving solutions – Google Ad Manager a plus
• Technical design experience for complex solutions
• Expertise in Drupal backend development, including custom module development, contributed key modules and core API
• Expertise in Drupal front end development, including theming and standard design implementation
• Needs to possess a deep understanding of Drupal’s “best practices” for all new module development
• Active within the Drupal community
• Ability to understand and resolve site performance issues
• Continuous integration/modern deployment technologies

Non-Technical Skills:

• Minimum of 1-year experience as a Team Lead
• Ability to work in an Agile environment
• Ability to both collaborate with team members (internal and external) and work independently
• Strong work ethic, ability to handle multiple tasks and creatively solve problems
• Produce high-quality work while meeting deadlines
• Work with external resources as needed, which includes occasional off-hours meetings
• Excellent and proactive communication skills are vital 

Additional skills desired but not required:

• Google Ad Manager (assist ad team with technical issues) Analytics, Tag Manager, Moat Analytics, and Lytics CDP
• LAMP stack with moderate exposure to both the Drupal and WordPress publishing platforms and their ecosystems.
• Laravel PHP Framework
• Experience w/ AlpineJS, React JS and/or VueJS
• Redis and Mongo DB
• Node JS, and Express Framework
• Detached and Headless CMS architectures
• Issue Management Systems, GitHub, Jira
• Automated Testing w/ PhpUnit, Behat, etc.
• Application Monitoring w/ New Relic
• Google services such as Analytics, Tag Manager and Search Console
• Understanding of SEO best practices
• Prior media company experience a plus

 

 

 

To apply, please send your resume to hr@farmjournal.com.

For more information or questions on any Farm Journal job postings, please contact:

Krystel Rummans
Senior Human Resources Generalist
Phone:  (913) 438-0730
E-mail: hr@farmjournal.com