Drupal Developer (32659)

The recruitment team at Myticas Consulting is looking for an experienced Drupal Developer who would be interested in a long-term remote contract opportunity offered within Canada (originally headquartered in Ottawa, ON). Previous Experience Required

• Experience building web applications in the Drupal (7) CMS
• Understands key server-side web development concepts through experiences such as:
• Interpreting graphic visual or interaction designs in HTML, CSS and Javascript.
• Creating visually appealing web pages or interfaces.
• Creating, editing or modifying templates for a CMS or web development framework.
• Programming interaction with JavaScript and/or a lipary such as jQuery, YUI or Prototype.
• Testing cross-powser, cross-platform, and/or cross-device compatibility for inconsistencies.
• Testing for compliance to specified standards such as accessibility standards (WCAG 2.0) in the clients region or domain.
• Conducting observational user testing, or reviewing designs against usability heuristics.
• Domain specific knowledge or transferable skills
• Experience with web development languages of HTML, CSS and JavaScript/jQuery.
• HTML

• Familiarity of HTML syntax for multiple specifications, including HTML 5.
• Knowledge of the semantic meaning of all HTML elements.
• Familiarity with the semantic markup for display of lists, tabular data, forms, articles, etc.
• Knowledge of markup used for layout such as dividers.
• Knowledge at the level to be able to hand-code markup.
• Including media and images.

• PHP

• Familiarity with modifying Drupal Theme hooks to display data
• Understanding how to utilize PHP to filter, process and output html, json, xml

• CSS

• Specifying different CSS for various media, devices and displays.
• Best practices in CSS file organization and structure.
• Methods for including CSS inline, internal and external via linked style sheets.
• How to define, combine and group CSS selectors for HTML elements, ID, classes, pseudo classes, child or sibling.
• Syntax of CSS declarations, properties and attributes.
• CSS box model and methods for CSS positioning, absolute and relative.
• Knowledge of properties and attributes to control the display.
• Familiarity with differences in CSS 2 and CSS 3.
• Proficient with a CSS Preprocessor such as Sass or LESS.

• Best practices

• Drupal standards and modules
• Methods to ensure powser & device compatibility
• Methods for degrading gracefully for older powsers and displays.
• Methods to ensure accessibility.
• File compression techniques for improving speed.

• JavaScript

• Knowledge of the operators, variables, datatypes, objects, properties and methods.
• Familiarity with control structures such as objects, functions, conditional statements, arrays, loops and expressions.
• Forms and regular expression validation and submitting data.
• Knowledge of how to apply logical operators and conditional statements.
• Knowledge of the DOM HTML objects and their properties.
• Event handling.
• Creating and controlling windows and dialogs.
• Processes for troubleshooting and debugging
• Familiarity with development and debugging tools for cross-powser issues.

• jQuery

• Knowledge of how to employ the jQuery lipary for visual effects, event handling, and document manipulation.

, : Mike Gebara