Software Developer(HR-62)

This role is for a substantial, fast-growing, and well-respected UK Full-Service Digital Firm who have hired us to exclusively recruit for them. It is a permanent Work From Home position and every day you’ll be working directly as part of their UK team. It is a senior role with real opportunities to learn and develop.

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The business we are representing takes care of every aspect of digital transformation -  from user research and digital strategy, through to design, technology, and digital marketing. They are well known for investing significantly in their staff - this will be a fantastic opportunity to learn and develop new skills.

Key points about our client:

1. Over 28 years old.
2. Have offices across the UK and have a 100-strong team of digital specialists 
3. Have a diverse clientele from Healthcare to housing and beyond - NHS Health Careers, Royal Mail, and British Safety Council to name a few. 

They are looking to make a full-time hire for a long-term position.

Location: Remote Work from Home in India

Minimum Experience: 5 years 

Shift Timings: 12 pm - 9:30 pm (Summer), 1 pm - 10:30 pm (Winter)

Roles and responsibilities

• Work with the Drupal Development team implementing web applications
• Collaborate with the UX/UI team to ensure a seamless user experience
• Optimise web applications for maximum speed and scalability
• Work with PMs to ensure project timelines and budgets are met
• Review code and provide constructive feedback to team members
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders and team members

Essential skills and experience

• Extensive knowledge of HTML5, CSS3, SCSS and JavaScript
• Development of fully responsive, mobile-first, cross-browser front ends
• Ensuring UI components are compliant with accessibility requirements ((WCAG) 2 Level AA)
• Experience integrating front ends with Drupal
• Deep understanding of Drupal’s theming architecture, including theme layers, template files, libraries, theme suggestions, regions, etc.
• Ability to manage theme inheritance and overrides for custom and sub-themes.
• Skilled in Twig templating, with expertise in rendering HTML, creating, customising, and debugging templates, and implementing complex theming logic.
• Understanding of how to write and manage preprocess functions in the .theme file to prepare and manipulate data for templates where necessary.
• Familiarity with content types, paragraphs, and their display modes in Drupal, including understanding how to configure and customise their presentation.
• Experience with Drupal Views, including customising the display and functionality of listings.
• Experience with Drupal Form API to customise the appearance and behaviour of forms.
• Knowledge of Drupal’s block management and layout systems.
• Understanding of Drupal's configuration management system.
• Fluent English
• Good communication skills
• Client facing
• Good remote working habits (proactive, gives useful updates, reaches out to colleagues for clarification if unclear)

Desired skills and experience

• Experience working with one or more major JS frameworks (ideally Vue, but any modern framework experience is fine)
• An understanding of component-based or atomic design patterns
• Automated testing
• Node.js
• TypeScript
• Experience working with Storybook; Docker
• Experience implementing Core Web Vitals / Lighthouse recommendations

Job Perks

• Work-life balance: You will work fixed hours and will never have to work on weekends again
• Laptop provided
• Full medical insurance is provided
• Learn and Grow: Learn from highly skilled UK colleagues and other Smart Workers in our active and useful forums
• Joining bonus
• Become part of the Smart Working family: Take part in games and quizzes, network with like-minded, ambitious, and friendly colleagues

Smart Working Remote Policy:

• To maintain transparency and uphold our commitment to clients, Smart Working uses productivity software that tracks activity & hours worked. This system guarantees that clients receive the agreed-upon number of hours.
• Smart Working does not allow dual employment during your working hours & does not allow its staff to outsource their work to third parties. Any employee doing either of these things will be terminated immediately & will have to pay a fine equalling 3 months salary for the damage caused to Smart Working.
• Smart Working uses state-of-the-art technology that cannot be bypassed.

About Us:

• Smart Working recruits excellent people to work full-time, remotely, and directly for UK businesses on a long-term basis.
• Once you pass the interview process with Smart Working you will be introduced to our UK client. We are here to help and support you through the entire application process.
• If you are looking to grow, learn, and develop professionally then working at Smart Working is the right place for you. Come and join our family and accelerate your career. 
• We welcome you to add or message any of our staff on LinkedIn to ask any questions about working here. We recommend reading some of Smart Working’s Glassdoor reviews - you will see what a trusted and supportive employer we are.