Wordpress Developer Jobs in Springfield, MA (NOW HIRING)

Job Summary:
Smith College is one of the largest women’s colleges in the country, dedicated to excellence in teaching and research across the liberal arts. They are seeking a Drupal and Integrations Developer to maintain and improve enterprise applications, support service requests, and oversee troubleshooting while collaborating with stakeholders to deploy solutions.
Responsibilities:
• Maintain, manage and improve mission critical and/or complex enterprise applications and associated services and workflows.
• Support service requests and collaborate with stakeholders to deploy solutions using assigned application(s).
• Oversee troubleshooting from routine to highly complex issues and escalates to vendors.
• Maintain security within the application(s) and manage routine updates and patching, as well as coordinating more complex system upgrades.
• Contribute to the development of documentation and standards.
• Lead large size projects associated with service delivery or maintenance.
• Work closely with key stakeholders and supports continuous improvement, as well as providing input for strategic planning.
• May be called upon after hours and/or weekends to address urgent issues.
• Develop and maintain custom Drupal 10+ modules using modern APIs and best practices.
• Design and implement secure API integrations with enterprise platforms (Salesforce, Slate, Workday).
• Maintain and modernize legacy PHP codebases to ensure long-term sustainability and compatibility with current architecture.
• Partner with the Marketing Director to leverage analytics tracking, GA4 events, and server-side tagging.
• Architect 'author-friendly' administrative interfaces (Paragraphs) to empower non-technical content managers.
• Monitor and optimize Core Web Vitals and site speed to support SEO and brand performance.
• Manage hosting environments (e.g., Pantheon), including deployment pipelines (CI/CD), configuration management, regression testing, security and version updates.
• Act as primary technical troubleshooter for high-traffic institutional events.
• Document technical implementations and integration patterns to ensure team redundancy.
• Consult with the Marketing Director and Web Lead during planning phases to provide feasibility assessments for new digital initiatives.
• Perform other duties as assigned by management.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Bachelor's Degree, Field: Computer Science or Engineering
• 5 or more years experience. Area: Drupal backend and integrations development
• Knowledge of: Drupal 10+ architecture, REST APIs, JSON, OAuth, and authentication workflows.
• Skills: Proficiency in Drupal, Javascript, PHP, Composer and Git; ability to translate complex technical requirements for marketing stakeholders.
Preferred:
• Graduate Degree, Field: Computer Science
• 8 or more years experience, Area: Drupal, Wordpress and API development
• Knowledge of: WordPress, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Workday, Technolutions Slate CRM
• Skills: Proficiency in Drupal and WordPress architecture JavaScript, React, PHP, Composer and Git; extensive experience with modern APIs and ETL processes
Company:
Since its founding in 1871, Smith College has provided women of high ability and promise an education of uncompromising quality. Founded in 1871, the company is headquartered in Northampton, USA, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.