Back-End Web Developer (Custom Software Engineer)

Custom Software Engineer

Project Role : Custom Software Engineer
Project Role Description : Develop custom software solutions to design, code, and enhance components across systems or applications. Use modern frameworks and agile practices to deliver scalable, high-performing solutions tailored to specific business needs.
Must have skills : Drupal, Content Management, JavaScript, Node.js
Good to have skills : NA
Minimum 3 year(s) of experience is required
Educational Qualification : 15 years full time education

Role Overview
The Back-End Web Developer will support the Marketing organization by developing and maintaining the back-end website architecture, CMS functionality, integrations, APIs, data structures, and technical foundations that power the global marketing website and related digital properties. This role will be part of the U.S.-led Web Operations team and will partner closely with the Director of Digital Experience & Web Strategy, front-end development, web operations resources, IT, SEO, analytics, UX/design partners, and business stakeholders.
The ideal candidate should bring strong back-end development fundamentals, CMS architecture experience, integration capability, and comfort working across modern, scalable, AI-enabled digital experience environments. This is not intended to be a basic website maintenance role it is focused on building reliable, secure, scalable, and future-ready web platform capabilities.
This role will help ensure the website platform can support structured content, component reuse, personalization, intelligent search, forms, integrations, analytics, SEO/AEO/GEO requirements, global/multilingual content needs, governance, and future AI-forward digital experiences.

Key Responsibilities
Develop, enhance, and maintain back-end website functionality, CMS structures, templates, modules, integrations, APIs, and platform capabilities across the global marketing website and related digital properties.
Support back-end development for Drupal 11 or a future headless/Sanity-based architecture, depending on final platform direction next week)
Build and maintain scalable CMS structures, content models, taxonomies, workflows, permissions, reusable components, and publishing processes that support global marketing needs.
Partner with the front-end developer to ensure back-end structures, APIs, CMS fields, forms, and integrations properly support front-end components and user experiences.
Support website integrations with marketing technology, analytics, forms, CRM, chatbot/conversational tools, personalization platforms, search, consent tools, and other connected systems.
Ensure back-end implementation supports SEO, AEO/GEO, structured content, schema, metadata, redirects, performance, analytics tagging, and conversion tracking requirements.
Support data, content, and platform readiness for AI-forward digital experiences, including structured content, intelligent search, personalization, guided journeys, chatbot integrations, and future automation use cases.
Maintain security, performance, reliability, scalability, accessibility support, and code quality across back-end website development work.
Participate in QA, UAT, troubleshooting, regression testing, release validation, issue resolution, and production support for website enhancements and launches.
Document back-end configuration, CMS structures, integration logic, dependencies, release processes, and technical standards that enable the Web Operations team to scale.
Work within Git, version control, code review, deployment, and agile delivery processes to ensure high-quality and controlled releases.
Use AI-enabled coding tools and modern development practices to improve speed, quality, testing, documentation, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement while maintaining strong development judgment.

Required Skills and Experience
Strong hands-on experience with back-end web development, CMS implementation, and web platform architecture.
Experience developing and supporting Drupal websites is required exposure to Drupal 11, (or headless CMS, Sanity -TBD), or similar modern CMS platforms is preferred.
Strong understanding of CMS configuration, content modeling, taxonomies, workflows, permissions, reusable components, and publishing structures.
Experience working with APIs, integrations, forms, third-party services, CRM/marketing technology connections, analytics tools, and web platform dependencies.
Working knowledge of PHP, JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, or other relevant back-end development languages and frameworks depending on platform direction.
Understanding of SEO, structured content, schema, metadata, redirects, site performance, accessibility support, analytics tagging, and conversion tracking considerations.
Experience with database structures, data flows, content migration, environment management, deployment processes, and platform troubleshooting.
Experience supporting secure, scalable, reliable, and performant web platforms in enterprise or large-scale environments.
Experience working with Git, version control, code review, release processes, and agile development workflows.
Familiarity with AI-enabled development tools, copilots, automated testing, debugging, or workflow automation is preferred.
Experience with B2B, SaaS, global, multilingual, or enterprise marketing websites is required.
Strong attention to detail, problem-solving skills, and ability to partner effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Ideal Candidate Profile
The ideal candidate is a strong back-end web developer who understands how to build and maintain scalable, secure, reliable, and flexible CMS-driven website platforms. This person should be comfortable supporting a Drupal 11 (or headless/Sanity direction).
This person should be technically strong, systems-oriented, comfortable with ambiguity, and able to work across both technical and non-technical teams. They should be able to operate effectively within a globally distributed team, partner with U.S.-based web leadership and stakeholders, and use AI tools pragmatically to improve development speed, quality, testing, documentation, and troubleshooting without over-relying on them in place of sound development judgment.
Success Measures
Back-end website functionality, CMS structures, integrations, and platform capabilities are stable, scalable, secure, and aligned to business needs.
Drupal 11 (or Sanity/headless) back-end work is supported effectively.
Website platform structures support reusable components, structured content, global publishing needs, SEO/AEO/GEO requirements, analytics, and conversion tracking.
Integrations, forms, APIs, workflows, and platform dependencies are documented, maintained, and reliable.
Website enhancements and launches are delivered with strong QA, documentation, troubleshooting, and controlled release practices.
AI-enabled development practices improve productivity and quality in meaningful ways while maintaining technical control.