Negotiable
Outside
Remote
USA
Summary: The role is for an experienced Drupal Developer to engage in a long-term remote contract opportunity within Canada, specifically for a company headquartered in Ottawa, ON. The position requires expertise in building web applications using Drupal (7) and a strong understanding of server-side web development concepts. The developer will be responsible for creating visually appealing web pages, modifying templates, and ensuring compliance with accessibility standards. The role emphasizes proficiency in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP, along with best practices in web development.
Key Responsibilities:
- Build web applications in the Drupal (7) CMS.
- Interpret graphic visual or interaction designs in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
- Create visually appealing web pages or interfaces.
- Create, edit, or modify templates for a CMS or web development framework.
- Program interactions with JavaScript and/or libraries such as jQuery, YUI, or Prototype.
- Test cross-browser, cross-platform, and/or cross-device compatibility for inconsistencies.
- Test for compliance with specified standards such as accessibility standards (WCAG 2.0).
- Conduct observational user testing or review designs against usability heuristics.
- Utilize web development languages of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript/jQuery.
- Modify Drupal Theme hooks to display data using PHP.
- Specify different CSS for various media, devices, and displays.
- Implement best practices for Drupal standards and modules.
- Employ jQuery for visual effects, event handling, and document manipulation.
Key Skills:
- Experience with Drupal (7) CMS.
- Proficiency in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP.
- Familiarity with HTML syntax and semantic meaning of HTML elements.
- Knowledge of CSS best practices and organization.
- Understanding of JavaScript operators, variables, and control structures.
- Experience with jQuery library.
- Ability to ensure accessibility and compliance with standards.
- Experience with testing for cross-browser compatibility.
- Knowledge of file compression techniques for improving speed.
- Familiarity with development and debugging tools for cross-browser issues.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: undetermined
Country: USA
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
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.