Drupal Developer

Job Title: Drupal Developer
Location: Ottawa, ON (Remote)

Key Responsibilities and Experience Requirements:

• Experience in building web applications using the Drupal 7 CMS.
• Solid understanding of key server-side web development concepts, including:
• Interpreting graphic, visual, or interaction designs into HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Creating visually appealing web pages and interfaces.
• Creating, editing, or modifying templates for a CMS or web development framework.
• Programming interactive features using JavaScript and/or libraries such as jQuery, YUI, or Prototype.
• Testing for cross-browser, cross-platform, and cross-device compatibility to identify and resolve inconsistencies.
• Ensuring compliance with specified standards, including accessibility standards (e.g., WCAG 2.0), relevant to the client’s region or domain.
• Conducting observational user testing or evaluating designs against usability heuristics.

Domain-Specific Knowledge and Skills:

• Proficiency in web development languages, including HTML, CSS, and JavaScript/jQuery.

HTML:

• Familiarity with HTML syntax across multiple specifications, including HTML5.
• Understanding the semantic meaning of all HTML elements.
• Knowledge of semantic markup for displaying lists, tabular data, forms, articles, and more.
• Familiarity with layout markup, such as dividers.
• Ability to hand-code HTML, including integrating media and images.

PHP:

• Familiarity with modifying Drupal theme hooks to display data.
• Proficiency in using PHP to filter, process, and output HTML, JSON, and XML.

CSS:

• Expertise in specifying CSS for various media, devices, and displays.
• Best practices in CSS file organization and structure.
• Proficiency in including CSS inline, internally, and externally via linked stylesheets.
• Strong understanding of defining, combining, and grouping CSS selectors for elements, IDs, classes, pseudo-classes, and child/sibling relationships.
• In-depth knowledge of CSS syntax, declarations, properties, and attributes.
• Mastery of the CSS box model and positioning methods (absolute and relative).
• Familiarity with CSS properties and attributes to control display.
• Understanding of the differences between CSS2 and CSS3.
• Proficiency in using a CSS preprocessor such as Sass or LESS.

Best Practices:

• Adherence to Drupal standards and modules.
• Ensuring browser and device compatibility.
• Implementing graceful degradation for older browsers and displays.
• Maintaining accessibility compliance.
• Utilizing file compression techniques to improve performance.

JavaScript:

• Knowledge of operators, variables, data types, objects, properties, and methods.
• Familiarity with control structures, including objects, functions, conditional statements, arrays, loops, and expressions.
• Expertise in forms, regular expression validation, and data submission.
• Proficiency in applying logical operators and conditional statements.
• Understanding of DOM HTML objects and their properties.
• Experience with event handling, creating windows and dialogs, and debugging.
• Familiarity with development and debugging tools for resolving cross-browser issues.

jQuery:

• Expertise in using the jQuery library for visual effects, event handling, and document manipulation.