Front-End Web Developer (Drupal)

Title: Front-End Web Developer (Drupal)

Location: Hybrid in Boston, MA (in office Tuesday and Thursday)

Duration: Approximately 4 months temp, then perm

Hours: 9am-5pm, Monday-Friday

Pay Rate: $50-$58/hr depending on experience

The Planet Group is looking for a Front-End Web Developer (Drupal) to join our client on a contract-to-permanent basis. Our client is a globally renowned, top-tier pediatric academic medical center in New England.

Front-End Web Developer Responsibilities:

• Develop reusable, branded, responsive, and accessible Drupal components and page templates for the web production team.
• Partner with digital strategy, UX, design, web production, and back-end development teams to plan and deliver new website features and functionality.
• Create, review, document, and maintain code in Git repositories and support established testing, release, and deployment processes.
• Translate approved designs and prototypes into scalable, high-quality website layouts, templates, and component-based experiences.
• Develop and customize Drupal themes, Twig templates, front-end components, and presentation-layer integrations.
• Support web-based campaign experiences, blogs, newsletters, and other digital content as needed.
• Develop functional, intuitive, mobile-first web experiences based on usability, accessibility, design-system, and performance standards.
• Provide ongoing front-end maintenance, troubleshooting, enhancements, and quality assurance across Drupal and designated WordPress websites.
• Write clean, semantic HTML, modern CSS/Sass, and JavaScript and apply Drupal Twig templating standards.
• Create and evaluate prototypes and proof-of-concept experiences within project timelines.
• Collaborate with back-end developers on integrations, troubleshooting, debugging, and release readiness.
• Maintain Hospital brand, design-system, accessibility, and user-experience standards across digital interfaces.
• Stay current on front-end, Drupal, WordPress, accessibility, security, and web-performance practices.
• Apply usability, technical SEO, Core Web Vitals, WCAG 2.2 AA, and secure-development best practices.

Front-End Web Developer Qualifications:

• Associate's degree required.
• Minimum 2 years of professional front-end development experience, including hands-on experience building or maintaining websites in Drupal.
• Experience supporting WordPress websites and participating in WordPress-to-Drupal migrations preferred.
• Experience in a complex, regulated, healthcare, higher-education, or similarly distributed organization is a plus.

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