Drupal Frontend Engineer; Consultant, Engineering & Technical Services

Drupal Frontend Engineer (Consultant, Engineering & Technical Services)

At Fearless, the Consultant, Engineering & Technical Services collaborates with cross-functional Agile teams to architect, implement, and maintain modern, high-performing digital experiences for a federal health care platform serving approximately 11 million monthly users. Leveraging advanced Drupal frontend expertise—including component-based architecture and modular design system implementation—this role optimizes public access to critical health care services while bridging technical execution and user-centered delivery.

As a subject-matter expert, the successful candidate works independently to establish and uphold team standards for quality, performance, and WCAG accessibility. This position requires candidates to obtain and maintain a federal Public Trust clearance and satisfy all CMS residency requirements.

This Consultant collaborates with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality, secure, and maintainable systems across all stages of the software and data lifecycle. This role is instrumental in delivering secure, efficient, and scalable solutions that directly impact the success of projects, teams, and organizational goals. This role will work on projects that allow them to contribute across the entire technology stack—software, infrastructure, data, AI, and security—to ensure quality, speed, and innovation in delivery.

While this role is primarily remote, candidates must meet CMS residency requirements. Mandatory technical assessment:
As part of the recruitment workflow, engineering candidates are required to perform a Civic Actions (Partner Lead) take-home exercise. This specialized evaluation supersedes Test Gorilla assessments.

Your Responsibilities in this Role:

• Apply a modular, component-based approach to extend and implement design systems within Drupal themes using tools like Storybook and Single Directory Components (SDC)
• Architect and write secure, performant, well-documented JavaScript code that adheres to established coding standards
• Implement and uphold Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) across all digital touchpoints
• Develop and maintain PostCSS workflows and apply modern styling practices within Drupal theme architecture
• Integrate Web Components into Drupal themes
• Write integration and end-to-end tests (e.g., Cypress) to ensure code quality, reliability, and regression coverage
• Use JavaScript and PHP debugging tools to accelerate development workflows and enhance code quality
• Support backend development tasks such as basic module development and Drupal configuration management
• Develop code collaboratively within Git repositories using forks, branching workflows, and conflict resolution best practices
• Balance multiple projects and products that share codebases, and participate in Agile ceremonies

The Impact You Will Create in this Role:

Fearless Impact:

• Collaborates with cross functional teams
• Earn the trust of your customer and teammates by delivering world class services.
• Be reliable completing assigned objectives on time.
• Alert your teammates and supervisor immediately when you think a deliverable is at risk.
• Gather intelligence and listen to what your client, other people within the customer's organization and other contractors say about your project, and report back to your Fearless teammates and supervisor (whether it's good, bad or just informational).

Fearless Customer Impact:

• Deliver expected outcomes relative to high quality code and maintainable systems
• Offer and implement innovative solutions that include engineering best practices through new tools, frameworks and methodologies
• Serve as a trusted advisor in your area of expertise

Work Experience

Project Skill and Experience Requirements

• 5+ years of web development experience
• Demonstrated experience with Drupal 10 and/or Drupal 11 frontend development
• Strong familiarity with modern Drupal frontend architectures, including Single Directory Components (SDC) and Drupal's JavaScript frameworks
• Comfortable integrating Web Components in Drupal themes
• Strong proficiency in Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
• Strong familiarity with PostCSS workflows…