Open Call for Freelance WordPress / Drupal Developers (Remote - USA)
Role Overview
This freelance role involves developing and maintaining WordPress and Drupal projects for a social impact agency, focusing on custom backend and frontend work using modern frameworks like Roots stack, React, and TailwindCSS. It requires mid to senior-level expertise in agency environments, with responsibilities including estimating project scopes, writing clean code, and ensuring documentation. The hire will contribute to long-term partnerships on projects typically requiring 10-30 hours per week, impacting social justice initiatives through technology.
Perks & Benefits
The job offers fully remote work with a preference for EST time zone overlap, providing flexibility in project-based engagements of 10-30 hours per week. It emphasizes a collaborative culture built on integrity, empathy, and teamwork, with opportunities for long-term partnerships over one-off gigs. Career growth is supported through exposure to enterprise-grade platforms and diverse tech stacks, though benefits like insurance are self-managed as an independent contractor.
Full Job Description
Headquarters: New York City URL: https://constructive.co
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.
To apply: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/constructive-open-call-for-freelance-wordpress-drupal-developers-remote-usa
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