Drupal Developer : LATAM

Axelerant; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Axelerant is seeking a senior Drupal developer to own upgrades and redesigns for enterprise sites. You will assess current architecture, migrate content, and release with cross-functional teams spanning design, QA, and project management.

Responsibilities include upgrading production sites, building reusable components with Twig, PHP, and Drupal APIs, and coordinating with technical leads and hosting environments. This role emphasizes performance, compatibility, and scalable frontends.

Qualifications

• At least six years of professional Drupal development experience.
• Strong skills in Drupal site building, custom module development, Drupal APIs, PHP, and Twig.
• Experience upgrading production Drupal sites and resolving compatibility issues.
• Experience building component-based Drupal frontends and migrating content with the Drupal Migrate API.
• Hands-on experience with Acquia Cloud or Cloud Next environments, deployments, configuration, logs, and diagnostics.
• Experience with Acquia Content Hub, CLI or Cloud API, platform pipelines, Search or Solr, and caching strategies.

Responsibilities

• Plan and carry out a Drupal upgrade, checking compatibility and resolving deprecated code.
• Build reusable, responsive Single Directory Components with Twig, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Map existing content to the new site model and validate migrated data.
• Create and maintain content types, fields, views, taxonomies, and custom modules.
• Support external API and identity integrations and verify site stability.
• Coordinate release work with technical leads, frontend development, QA, and project management.

Skills

Drupal development

Drupal site building

Twig

PHP

Drupal APIs

Migrate API

Tools

Acquia Cloud/Cloud Next

Drupal CLI

Content Hub

Solr/Search

Job description

Role overview

Own key parts of an enterprise Drupal upgrade and redesign, from assessing the existing site through migration and release. The work combines Drupal development and platform operations with reusable frontend components and careful content transfer, in collaboration with technical, design, QA, and project colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Plan and carry out a Drupal upgrade, checking custom and contributed modules for compatibility and resolving deprecated code.
• Build reusable, responsive Single Directory Components with Twig, CSS, and JavaScript, and check browser compatibility and performance.
• Map existing content to the new site model, implement migration workflows with Drupal Migrate API, and validate migrated data.
• Create and maintain content types, fields, views, taxonomies, and custom modules using Drupal APIs and PHP.
• Support external API and identity integrations, troubleshoot issues across Drupal and its hosting environment, and verify site stability.
• Coordinate implementation and release work with technical leads, frontend development, QA, and project management.

Requirements

• At least six years of professional Drupal development experience.
• Strong skills in Drupal site building, custom module development, Drupal APIs, PHP, and Twig.
• Practical experience upgrading production Drupal sites and resolving module and code compatibility issues.
• Experience building component-based Drupal frontends and migrating content with the Drupal Migrate API.
• Hands-on experience with Acquia Cloud or Cloud Next environments, deployments, configuration, logs, and diagnostics.
• Experience with Acquia Content Hub, CLI or Cloud API, platform pipelines, Search or Solr, and caching strategies.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with Acquia Cloud IDE, additional CI/CD tools, npm, Webpack, Gulp, React, or enterprise and regulated delivery.
• Drupal or Acquia certifications, or exposure to Site Studio, Site Factory, DAM, personalization, campaign, or customer data tools.