Drupal Developer

BCA Research is the leading independent provider of global investment research. Since 1949, BCA Research's mission has been to shape the level of conviction with which our clients make investment decisions, through the delivery of leading-edge analysis and forecasts of all the major asset classes and economies. The firm maintains a head office in Montreal, with local offices in London, New York, Hong Kong, Sydney, Singapore and Shanghai.

Downtown Montreal – Hybrid

Full-time – Permanent

About The Team

You’ll join a small, senior, AI-augmented Drupal team at BCA Research. We ship a lot, every week, into a Drupal 10 platform that powers a financial-research product real subscribers pay for. We move quickly because Claude Code, Codex, and similar tools are first-class members of our workflow – but we still own every line of code, review every PR carefully, and talk through tricky problems together on camera.

Responsibilities

• Deliver JIRA tickets end-to-end: custom modules, hooks, controllers, services, Views, theme work, configuration changes
• Use AI coding assistants daily, review their output critically, and keep the quality bar high
• Follow project conventions: dependency injection (no \Drupal:: statics), type hints, PHPDoc, cache metadata on render arrays
• Write and maintain code with performance and scalability in mind - avoid N+1 queries, apply appropriate caching, profile when needed
• Apply security best practices: input validation, access checks, XSS/SQL injection prevention, CSRF protection
• Write PHPUnit unit tests and DTT integration tests alongside the feature work; debug issues across the stack
• Read the relevant feature contract before changing feature code; update documentation before opening the PR
• Collaborate with the tech lead, fellow developers, designers, and project managers to deliver well-scoped solutions
• Review teammates' PRs and take feedback well on your own

Required

• 3-5 years of Drupal development (Drupal 9 or 10), comfortable on PHP 8.x
• Hands-on experience with AI coding assistants (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Codex, Cline, etc.)
• Solid grasp of Drupal fundamentals: custom modules, hook system, Entity API, Views, configuration management, Twig, services and DI
• Strong object-oriented PHP - interfaces, inheritance, traits, SOLID principles applied pragmatically
• Experience building or consuming REST APIs in Drupal (JSON:API, REST module, or custom controllers); familiarity with SOAP a plus
• Working knowledge of Drupal security practices and the OWASP basics
• Comfortable with Composer, Drush, Git, branch-based workflows, and pull requests
• Experience with at least one of: PHPUnit, Behat, or Drupal Test Traits
• Confident debugging unfamiliar Drupal code - Xdebug, logs, query inspection
• Clear written and verbal communication with both technical and non-technical teammates
• Excellent spoken and written English as you will collaborate with colleagues in Canada, US and globally.
• Professional level of French spoken and written.

Nice to have

• Experience with Acquia and/or Pantheon (we are migrating from Acquia to Pantheon)
• Site Studio / Cohesion
• DDEV or Lando for local development
• Integrations with Salesforce, Auth0, Solr, or Memcached
• Frontend work with SCSS, Bootstrap, and vanilla JS via Drupal.behaviors
• Performance tuning instincts - N+1 queries, cache hit rates, New Relic

How we work

• AI-first, human-owned. Every PR has a person's name and judgement behind it.
• Documentation lives in the repo and is updated with the code, not after.
• Feature contracts are authoritative - code conforms to the contract.
• PR reviews are real reviews; automated agents and humans both have to be satisfied.
• Camera-on, engaged in collaboration when the team is on a call.
• Please note that the candidate must be located in the greater Montreal area. Candidate must be available full-time as this is a permanent role within the tech team.

We embrace and support each other without labels to make BCA Research a phenomenal and progressive place to thrive. We offer a competitive compensation package and benefits. Flexibility, trust and responsibility for a balance between wellness and high performance. Professional development, Recognition and rewards and a team spirit, support and sense of belonging to the company’s goals and plans.

Join us and be part of a diverse team that shapes the future of investment insights.

BCA Research provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, colour, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.

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