Design by Soapbox

Design by Soapbox

London

Senior Drupal Developer

Full-Time£49,000 - 65,000 per yearвчераUnited Kingdom
IT

Job Description

Salary: £49,000 - 65,000 per year

Requirements:
  • We have extensive knowledge and experience of Drupal, advanced PHP and MySQL.
  • Experience with WordPress, Symfony, Laravel, and other PHP tools is a bonus.
  • We have experience with Git, Bash, GNU Make, various command line tools, Apache/nginx servers, and DDEV.
  • We have a good understanding of advanced object-oriented PHP, namespacing, dependency injection, and related concepts.
  • We must be comfortable reviewing others code as well as producing our own.
  • We have the confidence and communication skills to engage directly with clients and explain proposed solutions.
  • We must have fluent written and spoken English.
  • Experience working for non-profit clients is desirable.
Responsibilities:
  • We work as part of an in-house development team and collaborate closely with project managers, digital designers, content strategists, and technical leads.
  • We develop the back end of new websites and other digital products.
  • We update existing websites through maintenance and new functionality work.
  • We build main websites, smaller sites, and other products, including our own tools and services.
  • We may work on the support desk on a rotational basis across the development team.
  • We act autonomously and take responsibility for our own projects, with support when needed.
  • We typically work on one major project at a time, seeing it through to completion.
  • We may handle smaller chunks of work on existing sites through our Continuous Improvement packages.
Technologies:
  • Bash
  • Drupal
  • GNU
  • Git
  • Support
  • Laravel
  • MySQL
  • Nginx
  • PHP
  • Symfony
  • WordPress
  • AI
  • REST
  • Web

More:

We are Soapbox, a creative studio for ideas that matter, working with forward-thinking organisations to turn knowledge and evidence into social progress. Our clients focus on important issues such as artificial intelligence, international development, early childhood, and climate change. We are a flexible and fair employer with a close-knit, hard-working, and ambitious team, and many of our colleagues have built long careers with us. We offer hybrid working, with the role based in our London or Bath studios or potentially fully remote, and we consider other flexible working arrangements. Our studios are in co-working environments with good views, snacks, barista-quality coffee, and space to collaborate. We also offer annual leave, a Christmas closure, your birthday off, cycle-to-work support, tech and season ticket loans, parental leave, social events, matched pension contributions, and other benefits. We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from under-represented groups.

last updated 39 week of 2026

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About Design by Soapbox

Design by Soapbox

Design by Soapbox

London

IT

Skills & Technologies

GoPHPLaravelGitMySQLRESTAIUI

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