Senior Drupal Developer

VERB is a digital marketing and technology agency located in downtown Halifax, Nova Scotia. Our global clients offer the opportunity to work and collaborate with some of the world’s biggest destinations, resorts, and travel brands—and with our employee travel credit, it’s easy to experience them for yourself. We take a balanced approach to work/life and have fun at the office– or wherever we happen to be working. We are passionate about exceeding expectations and we thrive on jobs other agencies might find too big, or too difficult, or too fast

Sound good? Great, here’s who we’re looking for…

The Senior Developer is a mentor to other developers. They guide and establish best practices while collaborating on the development of platform builds. 

What You Will Do

• Create and maintain web-based platforms
• Create website layouts/user interfaces by using standard HTML/CSS practices
• Build and integrate modules and third-party applications
• Build API integrations
• Accurately produce front-end components using creative mock-ups
• Review code and merge requests for junior development team members
• Work closely with project team to analyze and understand user needs to implement website content, design, performance, and capacity
• Quote large scale projects/tasks
• Identify and communicate opportunities for improving builds/processes to the team
• Participate in regular project stand-ups and sprint reviews
• Transfer knowledge and train team members 
• Act as an escalation point for the project team
• Track projects and record time sheets using Jira
• Collaborate in a team environment and take direction from leadership

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience in web development 
• Demonstrated experience with Drupal, WordPress, or other CMS's
• Proven experience using LAMP-stack technologies
• Must be familiar with modern PHP development practices and tools including, PHP 7, composer, and packagist
• Experience creating custom components/modules/plug-ins to integrate with CMS-based websites
• Experience creating cross-browser compatible and standards compliant HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Must be comfortable using CLI 
• Strong fundamental knowledge of Git and related processes
• Familiarity with web infrastructure technologies like SSL and DNS
• Proven track record of handling all aspects of website builds
• Must have the ability to communicate project/ task status updates, and any issues to internal and external stakeholders
• Stays up to date with software development best practices
• Self-directed troubleshooting abilities
• Willingness to help the team grow and learn
• Highly organized with the ability to function in a fast-paced business environment
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail 
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate in a team environment

Benefits

Our benefits are anything but basic, with vacation time available on day one (not to mention an extra bonus week during the holidays), an annual travel credit (for non-work related travel), and free office snacks and drinks to keep you energized when you’re around.

In addition, we offer the following and are consistently looking for new ways to enhance the benefits we offer to our team:

• 100% premium share option for Group Health Insurance (medical, dental, vision), with a health spending account to top up your claims
• A wellness spending account
• Company matching RRSP program
• Top up for Parental/Pregnancy leave
• Remote and flexible work arrangements
• Transit and fitness discounts
• Recreational sports teams
• Learning and development opportunities with a multitude of resources
• Internal recognition programs