Open Call for Freelance WordPress / Drupal Developers (Remote - USA)

Constructive is a leading social impact strategy and design firm that helps advance social, environmental, and economic justice. We’re a close-knit, committed team of experts and advocates who partner with ambitious organizations to make the world a more fair, equitable, and sustainable place. Constructive’s culture is built on values that are the core of who we are—deeply held beliefs about the importance of integrity, empathy, accountability, trust, teamwork, and respect that add purpose to our lives and can be seen and felt in everything we do. We’re looking to expand our freelance developer bench for upcoming 2026 projects. Below are the specific requirements we’re looking for in a WordPress/Drupal developer but in addition to these, we’re especially interested in developers who:

• Have agency experience
• Communicate clearly about risks and tradeoffs
• Write clean, maintainable code
• Value documentation and process
• Are comfortable estimating against defined scopes
• Prefer long-term partnerships over one-off gigs
• Please note: We are NOT looking to partner with any dev shops

Engagement is project-based (typically 10–30 hrs/week depending on scope), with EST overlap preferred. If this sounds like you and you’re interested, please submit your information HERE. WordPress Developer A developer working on Constructive's WordPress projects needs to operate across the Roots ecosystem (Bedrock, Sage, Acorn) and be comfortable with both the PHP backend and a React/Tailwind frontend.

Requirements

• PHP 8.x and Javascript/ Typescript
• WordPress internals: hooks/filters, custom post types, REST API, Gutenberg block registration
• Roots stack: Bedrock project structure, Sage theme framework, Laravel Acorn service container
• Laravel Blade templating including View Composers, Components, and directives
• Advanced Custom Fields Pro: building field groups in PHP code using ACF Composer, flexible content layouts, repeater fields, and shared field partials
• React (functional components, hooks) for building interactive block UI and search/filter interfaces
• TailwindCSS (v3 and v4) for utility-first responsive styling
• Modern JavaScript build tooling: at minimum one of Vite, Bud.js, or Webpack
• Composer for PHP dependency management, npm/yarn for JS dependencies
• Git workflow with feature branches, CI/CD awareness

Strongly Preferred

• Experience with Pantheon multidev environments
• Gravity Forms customization (hooks, custom validation, add-on integration)
• Alpine.js for lightweight DOM interactivity alongside heavier React components
• Accessibility (WCAG 2.1 AA)
• Pantheon platform operations: multidev, cache clearing, deployment workflows
• Data visualization libraries (D3, Highcharts) for interactive tool projects
• Search integration (Algolia) or other search providers.

Drupal Developer Constructive's Drupal projects are enterprise-grade platforms with deep integrations (Solr, Salesforce, Brightcove, S3). A Drupal developer needs strong backend module development skills and comfort navigating large configuration-driven codebases.

Requirements

• PHP 8.x and object-oriented PHP (services, dependency injection, event subscribers, plugins)
• Drupal 9,10 & 11 development: custom entities, plugins (Block, Field, QueueWorker), hook implementations, routing, services, and Forms API
• Drush command-line administration and writing custom drush commands
• Configuration management: drush cex/cim workflows, Config Split, Config Ignore, understanding YAML config structure and resolving merge conflicts in config
• Content modeling: content types, paragraphs, taxonomies, entity references, view modes, display management
• Views and Search API: building, customizing, and extending Views with exposed filters, facets, and custom query altering
• Drupal theming: Twig templates, theme hooks, preprocess functions, library management, and render arrays
• Composer for dependency management including applying patches
• Git workflow with feature branches, CI/CD awareness

Strongly Preferred

• Open Social distribution experience - understanding its stream architecture and how to extend it
• Salesforce integration: the drupal/salesforce module suite, field mappings, push/pull pipelines, custom tokens, SOAP endpoints, and troubleshooting sync failures
• Solr / Search API: schema management, custom index configuration, React-based search frontends
• S3 / S3FS module for remote file storage
• SAML/SSO authentication
• Performance tuning: Redis, Memcache, cache tag management on Pantheon
• Paragraphs and paragraph-based page building
• TailwindCSS
• Familiarity with patching contrib modules and managing patch files in composer.json
• Migration framework experience
• Accessibility (WCAG 2.1 AA)

General Requirements for all Freelancers All freelance partners must operate as independent contractors under U.S. tax law, provide a completed W-9 prior to payment, and manage their own federal, state, and self-employment tax obligations. 1099-NEC forms will be issued where required. Proof of business entity and insurance may be requested depending on scope. Interested? Great! Submit your application HERE! . If we feel it’s a good fit, we’ll be in touch with next steps. Apply tot his job Apply To this Job