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.