Front-End Engineer Drupal

Role Summary

Seeking a Front-End Engineer with proven experience delivering WordPress-to-Drupal migrations, including rebuilding themes, translating legacy CMS capabilities, and modernizing front-end experiences within Drupal.

This role focuses on creating scalable, high-quality UI components while ensuring continuity of functionality, performance, accessibility, and user experience throughout the migration.

While this is primarily a front-end role, the ideal candidate is a well-rounded Drupal expert who understands modern Drupal best practices (Drupal 9/10 ), can collaborate effectively with backend teams, and has enough backend familiarity to safely implement or adjust Drupal-side integrations when needed.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and implement responsive, accessible UI components within Drupal
• Rebuild and modernize WordPress themes into Drupal-based front-end architecture
• Translate business and UX requirements into clean, maintainable front-end code
• Integrate front-end components with Drupal modules and external services
• Support content migration efforts by ensuring front-end rendering aligns with mapped content structures
• Optimize for performance, SEO, and cross-browser compatibility
• Collaborate with UX, Marketing, and backend teams to ensure consistent user experience and brand alignment
• Participate in code reviews, testing, and release cycles
• Contribute to building reusable components and scalable design patterns for future enhancements

Required Qualifications / Ideal Profile

Front-End Expertise

• Demonstrated experience in WordPress-to-Drupal (or similar CMS-to-CMS) migrations
• Strong proficiency in modern front-end development practices (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, component-based architecture)
• Strong experience working within Drupal theming (Twig templating, theme layer concepts, template debugging)
• Familiarity with SEO best practices, accessibility standards (WCAG/ARIA), and performance optimization
• Ability to work within structured, enterprise delivery models with governance and security considerations
• Strong collaboration skills across design, business, and engineering teams

Modern Drupal Best Practices

• Working knowledge of modern Drupal approaches such as:
• Component-driven theming and reusable UI patterns
• Layout-based content construction and structured component usage
• Configuration management concepts (config vs content, environment portability)
• Ability to align implementations with Drupal conventions and avoid anti-patterns that create upgrade risk

Security & Regulatory Experience

• Solid understanding of web security best practices relevant to front-end development:
• XSS prevention
• Secure templating practices
• Safe handling of third-party scripts
• Dependency/security awareness
• Comfortable working within processes that require:
• Change control and approvals
• Auditability and traceability
• Security validation and review cycles

Backend Awareness (Not a Backend Role)

• Ability to hand-code simple backend-adjacent changes when needed, including:
• Basic PHP/Drupal adjustments (preprocess functions, template variables)
• Understanding of when code belongs in a theme vs a module
• Proper organization of files and directories following Drupal standards
• Familiarity with:
• Composer-based workflows (basic understanding)
• Drupal structure (modules, themes, config, services at a high level)
• Ability to collaborate effectively with backend engineers and avoid introducing anti-patterns

Education Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.