Drupal developers - all levels

Be part of our distributed team, working from your own home

Are you the curious one? That child that didn’t just ask why, but also how? The kid with the overwhelming desire to break things up to see how they worked? You’re in great company. And we're growing our team. 

The opportunity

You’ll work on high profile products and services for high profile companies. Your output will be used by millions of people.

You’ll have real responsibility and a genuine chance to make an impact. You’ll also work with some outrageously brilliant developers who are amongst the best in their field and contribute majorly to open source communities.

Our collaborative team will help you thrive — at Full Fat Things pragmatic thinking wins!

We are world leaders in building with Drupal. We build in many others ways too, including Ruby, Ruby on Rails, React/React Native, VueJS & Javascript. We also encourage developers to have DevOps skills, so our team knows how to run the software they write.

What you'll do

We’re a customer focused team and the nature of some of your work will change and adapt based on the projects we deliver. That means you’re always learning on the job — no matter your level of experience. Regardless of the project, you’ll be involved in these activities:

  • Develop on top of open source, mainly Drupal and the related ecosystem.

  • Integrate with CRM, ERP, finance systems, third party APIs, headless and heady(!) apps.

  • Write and design software in a way that can be open sourced in part and be immediately useful.

  • Use of source control (Git/Github) and actively take part in constant peer review of your peers' work. (This has become a lot easier now we have good config management.)

  • Write software that “pulls its own socks up” and doesn’t require manual steps to integrate into production. Config management helps here but we store devops code alongside Drupal for our environments. We think that developers should care about a layer or two below and above the environment where their code runs.

  • Write unit, integration and all sorts of other tests.

  • Solve hard technical problems. Probably harder than any other Drupal agency. We are strong developers first and we happen to use Drupal rather than thinking Drupal is the saviour of all things. We want to build robust software.

  • Work with and within Docker, DevOps environments. You'll work in an iterative agile setting in all phases of the software development cycle from collating requirements through to design, development, testing and releases; from initial idea to ongoing operation.

  • Take ownership of work to ensure you deliver from start to finish, involving others, where appropriate.

  • Collaborate with colleagues and customers alike — contributing ideas, feedback and leading initiatives.

  • If you're further along in your career, you'll mentor junior developers and be key in contributing to the overall growth of technical knowledge and talent across the business.

Does this sound like you?

  • You'll have software development experience in a professional capacity, ideally in Drupal. If not, you'll the have the capability and willingness to cross train.

  • Strong verbal and written professional communication skills, you’ll be able to take on complex information and communicate to non-technical audiences. This is really important. Being fabulous at development is half of what it takes to be a great developer at Full Fat Things.

  • You'll have a never stop learning attitude, and ideally open source contributions (include links to them in your application).

  • Respect, friendliness, integrity, service and tact are your character strengths. You'll be comfortable and confident with customers, both digital customers and face to face real humans.

  • You'll be confident in making decisions about how to approach projects. You'll use your excellent critical thinking skills to evaluate complex information to form rational and logical decisions.

  • You’ll be willing to work in a distributed team from your own home in the UK.

Benefits

Flexibility

No commute, more flexibility and a better work-life balance.

Premium equipment

Everything you need to do your job well. No outdated tech or wonky desks for our people!

Career development

Working amongst some of the best open source brains in the world.

Community activity

Active encouragement to make a name for yourself in the open source community.

Fun stuff

Regular get togethers for co-working days and social events.

Financial stuff

Salary in line with your skills and experience.

Training

Training and certification in open source software.

Bonus

The potential for an annual bonus.

Important stuff

Private health care and optional low cost family cover.

Pension

10% contribution from us to add to your own.

Holidays

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays each year.

Apply now

About Full Fat Things

We enable humans through brilliant digital solutions built from open source technology.

Based in the UK and over 13 years old, we're passionate about making great software products for amazing brands. We count Publishers, TV companies, global financial services companies and charities among our clients.

We’ve always been a distributed business. We choose where we work. We meet in person regularly in different cities for co-working days and socials.

Wise campaign - diversity, inclusion, change

We actively support the WISE Campaign and believe passionately in the need to encourage women and girls into STEM jobs.

Application process

Apply online and tell us about you. Please don't submit a CV on behalf of anyone else (we're looking at you, agencies). 

If all goes well, the next stages will involve interviews and a 50 minute online assessment. You’ll meet some of the team and get to know how we work. We’ll ask you about your skills, aspirations and approach to life.