{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"25b18a4d2ec32d8887f563ac","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/25b18a4d2ec32d8887f563ac","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/25b18a4d2ec32d8887f563ac","title":"Drupal Frontend Engineer","description":"Job Description:\n\nShort Description:\n\nClient requires the services of a contractor Web Developer with strong Drupal expertise to support the development, maintenance, and modernization of District government websites, including DC.gov and associated agency digital properties.\n\nComplete Description:\n\nEmployment Type: Contract w2/1099/C2C\n\nScope of Work\n\nDesign, develop, and maintain Drupal-based websites supporting DC.gov and District agency platforms.\n\nBuild and customize Drupal modules, themes, content types, taxonomies, and views per agency requirements.\n\nPerform Drupal core and contributed module updates, security patches, and version migrations (e.g., Drupal 7 to Drupal 10/11).\n\nIntegrate Drupal sites with enterprise systems, APIs, and third-party services.\n\nEnsure deliverables comply with Section 508, WCAG 2.1 AA, and District web standards.\n\nApply web security best practices consistent with Client and federal cybersecurity guidelines.\n\nCollaborate with Client project managers, UX designers, content strategists, and agency stakeholders.\n\nProduce technical documentation, code comments, and operational runbooks.\n\nProvide Tier 3 production support and participate in deployment activities, including occasional after-hours work.\n\nRequired Technical Skills\n\nHTML & Markup\n\nStrong command of semantic HTML5: sectioning elements, headings hierarchy, lists, tables, and forms.\n\nSolid grasp of web accessibility (WCAG 2.1 AA): ARIA roles and attributes, keyboard navigation, focus management, alt text, and accessible form labeling.\n\nFamiliarity with structured data and SEO markup: meta tags, Open Graph, Twitter cards, and Schema.org/JSON-LD.\n\nUnderstanding of how Drupal renders markup through Twig, and the ability to produce clean, valid output via template overrides.\n\nCSS & Styling\n\nDeep working knowledge of modern CSS layout: Flexbox and CSS Grid, with sound judgment about when to use each.\n\nProficiency with responsive design: media queries, fluid typography, container queries, and mobile-first methodology.\n\nCommand of the cascade, specificity, and inheritance, with the ability to debug specificity conflicts rather than reaching for important\n\nComfort with CSS custom properties (variables), modern color/spacing tokens, and maintainable theming patterns.\n\nAwareness of cross-browser compatibility, vendor prefixing strategy, and progressive enhancement.\n\nNice to Have\n\nStrong SCSS/SASS skills: nesting, mixins, functions, partials, and a disciplined file architecture.\n\nA consistent CSS methodology such as BEM, and an understanding of how it maps onto Drupal's class conventions.\n\nFamiliarity with CSS transitions, transforms, and animations, used with attention to performance and reduced-motion preferences.\n\nJavaScript\n\nSolid command of modern JavaScript (ES6+): arrow functions, destructuring, modules, promises, and async/await.\n\nStrong DOM manipulation and event-handling skills, including event delegation and performance-conscious listeners.\n\nFluency with the Fetch API and asynchronous data handling, including JSON parsing and error handling.\n\nWorking knowledge of Drupal's JavaScript layer: Drupal.behaviors, once(), drupalSettings, and the AJAX framework\n\nUnderstanding of how to attach and scope JS correctly through the Libraries API rather than inline scripts.\n\nFamiliarity with debugging via browser DevTools: breakpoints, the network panel, performance profiling, and the console.\n\nNice to Have\n\nAwareness of frontend performance: deferring/async loading, minimizing reflows, debouncing/throttling, and avoiding render-blocking scripts.\n\nExperience with a build/tooling pipeline (Webpack, Vite, or Gulp) and with linting/formatting (ESLint, Prettier, Stylelint).\n\nExposure to a modern framework (React/Vue) is a plus, particularly for decoupled or partially decoupled Drupal frontends.\n\nDrupal\n\nSite Administration & Configuration Management\n\nFluency with the Drupal 9/10/11 admin UI: content types, fields, vocabularies, view modes, form/display modes, blocks, menus, URL aliases, and redirects.\n\nSolid command of Configuration Management workflows: config export/import, config_split for environment-specific config, config_ignore for protected config.\n\nStrong grasp of user access control: roles, permissions, content moderation workflows, and custom workflow states/transitions.\n\nDemonstrated expertise with Views: complex queries, contextual filters, relationships, exposed filters/sorts, output rewriting, and REST exports.\n\nExperience administering the Media Library, image styles, responsive image styles, and crop/focal-point strategies.\n\nA clear mental model of what belongs in config vs. content vs. state vs. settings.php.\n\nTheming & Frontend\n\nStrong Twig skills: template suggestions, template preprocessing, and theme hook implementations.\n\nComfort with the Libraries API: defining JS/CSS, managing dependencies, and conditional loading.\n\nExperience with modern base themes (Olivero/Stable9) and component-based theming.\n\nFamiliarity with Single Directory Components (SDC) for Drupal 10.3+.\n\nSolid responsive design fundamentals, a disciplined CSS methodology (e.g., BEM), and SCSS/SASS proficiency.\n\nMulti-Domain / Multi-Site (Nice to Have)\n\nHands-on experience with the Domain Access module: domain entities, domain access fields on content/users/blocks, and current-domain negotiation.\n\nPractical command of the Domain Config module, including domain-specific config overrides and override precedence (settings.php > Domain Config UI > base config)\n\nA clear understanding of how config overrides cascade, and why programmatic overrides in settings.php will silently take precedence over UI changes\n\nFamiliarity with cache contexts and invalidation in a multi-domain context.\n\nExperience with domain-aware menu, block, and pathauto strategies, and with cross-domain content sharing vs. domain-restricted content patterns\n\nSecurity\n\nDisciplined input sanitization and output escaping (XSS, HTML, URL filters; Twig autoescaping).\n\nA reflexive habit of using placeholders to prevent SQL injection and applying access checks on entity queries.\n\nWorking knowledge of file-upload security, CSRF tokens, and trusted host patterns.\n\nExperience conducting permission audits and reviewing for privilege escalation.\n\nDevOps, Deployment & Tooling\n\nUnderstanding of Git workflows: feature branches, rebase vs. merge, conflict resolution, and hotfix patterns.\n\nStrong Drush proficiency, including cache rebuilds, config import/export, user management.\n\nCompetence with Composer for project scaffolding, patching, and autoloader generation.\n\nExperience with a local development environment, ideally Lando (DDEV/Docksal also welcome).\n\nNice to Have\n\nFamiliarity with CI/CD pipelines (BLT, GitHub Actions, or Acquia Pipelines).\n\nHands-on Acquia Cloud experience: environments, Cloud Hooks, code/database/files workflow, and Acquia CLI.\n\nComfort with multi-database configuration and routing.\n\nIntegration & Standards (Nice to Have)\n\nExperience building and consuming REST APIs: JSON:API, the REST module, and custom REST resources.\n\nExperience with common third-party integrations: analytics and marketing automation.\n\nWorking Style & Collaboration\n\nThe ability to write technical documentation that a non-developer content editor can follow.\n\nA methodical diagnostic approach — able to walk through debugging complex issues without guesswork.\n\nGood code-review hygiene: readable commits, descriptive PRs, and openness to feedback.\n\nAdherence to Drupal community coding standards (PHPCS with the Drupal and Drupal Practice rulesets).\n\nCONTRACT JOB DESCRIPTION\nResponsibilities:\nPerforms programming and technical work for website and Internet development.\n\nMinimum Education/Certification Requirements:\nBachelor’s degree in IT or related field or equivalent experience\n\nSkills Matrix\n\n16+ yrs. performing specialized (often advanced) programming and technical development for the Internet\n\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (equivalent experience may be substituted).\n\nAt least three (3) years of hands-on Drupal development (Drupal 7 and 9, 10, or 11 required).\n\nDemonstrated proficiency in PHP, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and Twig.\n\nExperience with Composer, Drush, Git, and MySQL/MariaDB.\n\nWorking knowledge of Section 508 and WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility standards.\n\nAcquia Certified Developer or Site Builder credential.\n\nExperience with headless/decoupled Drupal (JSON:API, GraphQL).\n\nFamiliarity with Acquia Cloud, Pantheon, or AWS hosting environments.\n\nPrior experience supporting District, state, or federal government web platforms.\n\nKnowledge of DevSecOps, CI/CD pipelines, and Docker.","company":"AHU Technologies","rawCompany":"ahu technologies","city":"Washington","state":"DC","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-07-21T12:13:28.572Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1254.00","title":"Web Developers","slug":"web-developers"},{"code":"15-1252.00","title":"Software Developers","slug":"software-developers"},{"code":"15-1255.00","title":"Web and Digital Interface Designers","slug":"web-and-digital-interface-designers"}],"industries":[{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"},{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"},{"code":"513210","title":"Software 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WCAG 2.1 AA, and District web standards.\n\nApply web security best practices consistent with Client and federal cybersecurity guidelines.\n\nCollaborate with Client project managers, UX designers, content strategists, and agency stakeholders.\n\nProduce technical documentation, code comments, and operational runbooks.\n\nProvide Tier 3 production support and participate in deployment activities, including occasional after-hours work.\n\nRequired Technical Skills\n\nHTML & Markup\n\nStrong command of semantic HTML5: sectioning elements, headings hierarchy, lists, tables, and forms.\n\nSolid grasp of web accessibility (WCAG 2.1 AA): ARIA roles and attributes, keyboard navigation, focus management, alt text, and accessible form labeling.\n\nFamiliarity with structured data and SEO markup: meta tags, Open Graph, Twitter cards, and Schema.org/JSON-LD.\n\nUnderstanding of how Drupal renders markup through Twig, and the ability to produce clean, valid output via template overrides.\n\nCSS & Styling\n\nDeep working knowledge of modern CSS layout: Flexbox and CSS Grid, with sound judgment about when to use each.\n\nProficiency with responsive design: media queries, fluid typography, container queries, and mobile-first methodology.\n\nCommand of the cascade, specificity, and inheritance, with the ability to debug specificity conflicts rather than reaching for important\n\nComfort with CSS custom properties (variables), modern color/spacing tokens, and maintainable theming patterns.\n\nAwareness of cross-browser compatibility, vendor prefixing strategy, and progressive enhancement.\n\nNice to Have\n\nStrong SCSS/SASS skills: nesting, mixins, functions, partials, and a disciplined file architecture.\n\nA consistent CSS methodology such as BEM, and an understanding of how it maps onto Drupal's class conventions.\n\nFamiliarity with CSS transitions, transforms, and animations, used with attention to performance and reduced-motion preferences.\n\nJavaScript\n\nSolid command of modern JavaScript (ES6+): arrow functions, destructuring, modules, promises, and async/await.\n\nStrong DOM manipulation and event-handling skills, including event delegation and performance-conscious listeners.\n\nFluency with the Fetch API and asynchronous data handling, including JSON parsing and error handling.\n\nWorking knowledge of Drupal's JavaScript layer: Drupal.behaviors, once(), drupalSettings, and the AJAX framework\n\nUnderstanding of how to attach and scope JS correctly through the Libraries API rather than inline scripts.\n\nFamiliarity with debugging via browser DevTools: breakpoints, the network panel, performance profiling, and the console.\n\nNice to Have\n\nAwareness of frontend performance: deferring/async loading, minimizing reflows, debouncing/throttling, and avoiding render-blocking scripts.\n\nExperience with a build/tooling pipeline (Webpack, Vite, or Gulp) and with linting/formatting (ESLint, Prettier, Stylelint).\n\nExposure to a modern framework (React/Vue) is a plus, particularly for decoupled or partially decoupled Drupal frontends.\n\nDrupal\n\nSite Administration & Configuration Management\n\nFluency with the Drupal 9/10/11 admin UI: content types, fields, vocabularies, view modes, form/display modes, blocks, menus, URL aliases, and redirects.\n\nSolid command of Configuration Management workflows: config export/import, config_split for environment-specific config, config_ignore for protected config.\n\nStrong grasp of user access control: roles, permissions, content moderation workflows, and custom workflow states/transitions.\n\nDemonstrated expertise with Views: complex queries, contextual filters, relationships, exposed filters/sorts, output rewriting, and REST exports.\n\nExperience administering the Media Library, image styles, responsive image styles, and crop/focal-point strategies.\n\nA clear mental model of what belongs in config vs. content vs. state vs. settings.php.\n\nTheming & Frontend\n\nStrong Twig skills: template suggestions, template preprocessing, and theme hook implementations.\n\nComfort with the Libraries API: defining JS/CSS, managing dependencies, and conditional loading.\n\nExperience with modern base themes (Olivero/Stable9) and component-based theming.\n\nFamiliarity with Single Directory Components (SDC) for Drupal 10.3+.\n\nSolid responsive design fundamentals, a disciplined CSS methodology (e.g., BEM), and SCSS/SASS proficiency.\n\nMulti-Domain / Multi-Site (Nice to Have)\n\nHands-on experience with the Domain Access module: domain entities, domain access fields on content/users/blocks, and current-domain negotiation.\n\nPractical command of the Domain Config module, including domain-specific config overrides and override precedence (settings.php > Domain Config UI > base config)\n\nA clear understanding of how config overrides cascade, and why programmatic overrides in settings.php will silently take precedence over UI changes\n\nFamiliarity with cache contexts and invalidation in a multi-domain context.\n\nExperience with domain-aware menu, block, and pathauto strategies, and with cross-domain content sharing vs. domain-restricted content patterns\n\nSecurity\n\nDisciplined input sanitization and output escaping (XSS, HTML, URL filters; Twig autoescaping).\n\nA reflexive habit of using placeholders to prevent SQL injection and applying access checks on entity queries.\n\nWorking knowledge of file-upload security, CSRF tokens, and trusted host patterns.\n\nExperience conducting permission audits and reviewing for privilege escalation.\n\nDevOps, Deployment & Tooling\n\nUnderstanding of Git workflows: feature branches, rebase vs. merge, conflict resolution, and hotfix patterns.\n\nStrong Drush proficiency, including cache rebuilds, config import/export, user management.\n\nCompetence with Composer for project scaffolding, patching, and autoloader generation.\n\nExperience with a local development environment, ideally Lando (DDEV/Docksal also welcome).\n\nNice to Have\n\nFamiliarity with CI/CD pipelines (BLT, GitHub Actions, or Acquia Pipelines).\n\nHands-on Acquia Cloud experience: environments, Cloud Hooks, code/database/files workflow, and Acquia CLI.\n\nComfort with multi-database configuration and routing.\n\nIntegration & Standards (Nice to Have)\n\nExperience building and consuming REST APIs: JSON:API, the REST module, and custom REST resources.\n\nExperience with common third-party integrations: analytics and marketing automation.\n\nWorking Style & Collaboration\n\nThe ability to write technical documentation that a non-developer content editor can follow.\n\nA methodical diagnostic approach — able to walk through debugging complex issues without guesswork.\n\nGood code-review hygiene: readable commits, descriptive PRs, and openness to feedback.\n\nAdherence to Drupal community coding standards (PHPCS with the Drupal and Drupal Practice rulesets).\n\nCONTRACT JOB DESCRIPTION\nResponsibilities:\nPerforms programming and technical work for website and Internet development.\n\nMinimum Education/Certification Requirements:\nBachelor’s degree in IT or related field or equivalent experience\n\nSkills Matrix\n\n16+ yrs. performing specialized (often advanced) programming and technical development for the Internet\n\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (equivalent experience may be substituted).\n\nAt least three (3) years of hands-on Drupal development (Drupal 7 and 9, 10, or 11 required).\n\nDemonstrated proficiency in PHP, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and Twig.\n\nExperience with Composer, Drush, Git, and MySQL/MariaDB.\n\nWorking knowledge of Section 508 and WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility standards.\n\nAcquia Certified Developer or Site Builder credential.\n\nExperience with headless/decoupled Drupal (JSON:API, GraphQL).\n\nFamiliarity with Acquia Cloud, Pantheon, or AWS hosting environments.\n\nPrior experience supporting District, state, or federal government web platforms.\n\nKnowledge of DevSecOps, CI/CD pipelines, and Docker.","datePosted":"2026-07-21T12:13:28.572Z","dateModified":"2026-07-21T12:13:28.572Z","hiringOrganization":{"@type":"Organization","name":"AHU Technologies","sameAs":"https://jobsearcher.com"},"jobLocation":{"@type":"Place","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","addressLocality":"Washington","addressRegion":"DC","addressCountry":"US"}},"identifier":{"@type":"PropertyValue","name":"JobSearcher","value":"25b18a4d2ec32d8887f563ac"},"url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/25b18a4d2ec32d8887f563ac"}}