The Kalamuna team smiling in a heart shaped box.
[https://assets.jazz.co/customers/customer_20170410180446_XOMGMDNRACXUKDPP/layout/20201030205506-twitter-confetti.png]
Foster interactions, grow impact, see the future.
The Senior Architect contributes to technical strategy and practices of the
Kalamuna team, proposes architectural direction and implementation strategy, and
often acts as a technical lead on web development projects. You’ll lead
technical discovery and work with the design team in early project phases to
build a bridge to implementation. You will consider technology ecosystems,
integrations, and the general solutioning of problems with an eye towards scope
and a goal to provide value to our mission-driven clients. You will lead
technical requirements gathering and define implementation strategies.
You are an advocate for common processes and solutions so that we can deliver
impactful solutions, achieve the benefits of automation, and excel as a team.
You are helping assess and adopt new technologies, and deprecate old ones. You
are an innovator, both in project spaces and outside of them, by participating
in research and development activities. You engage in continuous learning, enjoy
teamwork, collaboration, and mentoring more junior teammates. This role reports
to the Director of Technology.
Candidates for this full-time (32-40h/wk) remote position must reside in the US
or Canada. If you’re a recruiter or agency, please don’t contact us.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Excellent communication skills. Not only do we like talking, you’ll also be
speaking with our wonderful clients.
- Able to work independently while staying in sync with the rest of the team.
Able to help, brainstorm and find solutions that fit not only client needs
but also needs of your team.
- Attention to detail. Strong accountability and work ethic is a must.
- Understand Agile methodologies and be able to scope tasks and estimate
anticipated effort that solve problems within the project budget
- Mastery of web fundamentals. You must know how to bend the internet to your
will using our basic tech (HTML, CSS, JS, PHP). Please give us work samples
(projects, code, URLs) so we can admire your masterpieces.
- Live, dream and breathe Drupal. You’re a strong believer in open source, and
an established Drupal community member.
- Deep expertise with the Drupal API and module development. You know when to
site build, and when to get deep into code.
- Broad experience with Drupal cloud hosting providers (Pantheon, Acquia)
- A breadth of experience integrating technologies via APIs and web services.
- Employed DevOps strategies, including continuous integration, testing,
deployment, and truly owning the toolchain
- Excellent Git skills and branching wizardry
- Familiarity with local development tools. You are comfortable to setup and
maintain your own development environment
- Understanding of Drupal and PHP coding standards and best practices
- Deep expertise and understanding of component-based development and
architectural patterns
- Experience meeting accessibility best practices and testing for them
- Understanding of website security, performance and scalability
- Understanding of browser testing
BONUS POINTS IF YOU KNOW ABOUT
- Strong writing skills
- CRM integrations
- Frontend development, and frameworks such as React, Angular or Vue
- Node.js (at minimum as a compiler)
- Other platforms like Wordpress, Gatsby
- Decoupled models and architectures
- Search technologies like SOLR and Elastic Search
- SEO concepts, and methodologies for improving organic search ranking
- Digital analytics, particularly Google Analytics and Tag Manager
- QA practices, including automated testing, and regression testing
We are a distributed team concentrated in the US and Canada.
Working With Us
People are at the ? of everything we do.
Kalamuna is driven by a civic spirit to help socially impactful institutions,
nonprofits, and governments better communicate with constituents and do right by
the people they serve. We bring digital communications to life for organizations
as varied as Fair Trade USA, the American Foundation for the Blind, the
Environmental Defence Fund, the Smithsonian, UC Berkeley, Stanford, and the Fine
Arts Museums of San Francisco.
Kalamuna’s mission is to empower our clients with the research, strategy,
design, and technology that will transform their organizations to better serve
the needs of their audiences and communities. Kalamuna aligns itself in this
manner to make each of our client’s missions our mission. We seek to be
impactful, not only for our clients and partners but for the social good of our
communities.
We’re committed to your excellence and continued development; we’re in this
together. Kalamuna offers many benefits, including paid holidays, PTO, paid
bereavement leave, parental leave, health insurance, long and short-term
disability, a continued learning & travel stipend, an equipment fund, and
retirement funds with 3% match. We offer flexibility in work hours and
accommodations. When pandemic-free, we organize company-wide gatherings like
team building workshops, conferencing, and additional fun.
Commitment to Diversity
Kalamuna is committed to eradicating institutional discrimination and bias and
to uplifting the lived experiences of all underrepresented communities.
As such, Kalamuna welcomes applications from all backgrounds, particularly from
people of color; women; LGBTQ2S+ people; immigrants or refugees; people who are
differently-abled; and people from low- or moderate-income backgrounds. Kalamuna
is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer and does not discriminate
in its employment decisions on the basis of race, creed, color, ethnicity,
national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression, age,
height, weight, disability status, veteran status, military obligations, marital
status and policy party affiliation, or on any other basis that complies with
applicable laws.
If you’re a recruiter or agency, please don’t contact us. No exceptions.
Working With Us
People are at the ? of everything we do.
Kalamuna is driven by a civic spirit to help socially impactful institutions,
nonprofits, and governments better communicate with constituents and do right by
the people they serve. We bring digital communications to life for organizations
as varied as Fair Trade USA, the American Foundation for the Blind, the
Environmental Defence Fund, the Smithsonian, UC Berkeley, Stanford, and the Fine
Arts Museums of San Francisco.
Kalamuna’s mission is to empower our clients with the research, strategy,
design, and technology that will transform their organizations to better serve
the needs of their audiences and communities. Kalamuna aligns itself in this
manner to make each of our client’s missions our mission. We seek to be
impactful, not only for our clients and partners but for the social good of our
communities.
We’re committed to your excellence and continued development; we’re in this
together. Kalamuna offers many benefits, including paid holidays, PTO, paid
bereavement leave, parental leave, health insurance, long and short-term
disability, a continued learning & travel stipend, an equipment fund, and
retirement funds with 3% match. We offer flexibility in work hours and
accommodations. When pandemic-free, we organize company-wide gatherings like
team building workshops, conferencing, and additional fun.
We’re looking for individuals with a broad range of interests and experiences to
be their authentic selves. Your story, your passion is what interests us most.
Meet some of our team at https://youtu.be/K1rtt6oKGEs
[\"https://youtu.be/K1rtt6oKGEs\"].
Commitment to Diversity
Kalamuna is committed to eradicating institutional discrimination and bias and
to uplifting the lived experiences of all underrepresented communities.
As such, Kalamuna welcomes applications from all backgrounds, particularly from
people of color; women; LGBTQ2S+ people; immigrants or refugees; people who are
differently-abled; and people from low- or moderate-income backgrounds. Kalamuna
is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer and does not discriminate
in its employment decisions on the basis of race, creed, color, ethnicity,
national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression, age,
height, weight, disability status, veteran status, military obligations, marital
status and policy party affiliation, or on any other basis that complies with
applicable laws.
If you’re a recruiter or agency, please don’t contact us. No exceptions.
