Drupal Web Developer loc : Los Altos, CA
100,000 - 200,000
Job Description:
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Works with other Drupal team members, Senior Product Manager and Senior Project Manager on continuous development of Marketing website
Maintain and develop site: Write custom code (PHP, JavaScript, and CSS), theme and module development, module updates, identifying and resolving bugs.
Estimate and deliver on development tasks with high level of accuracy in an agile-like environment
Ensure product quality, maintainability, performance and scalability
Works collaboratively with Engineering Team and Tech Ops on site dependencies
Analyze client requirements to develop functional and technical software
Deliver products on time
Defines and disseminates technology best practices
On-call for emergency site issues
QUALIFICATIONS:
Minimum 3 years experience as a Drupal developer with in-depth experience, specifically with custom module development and custom theme development. Creating and applying patches.
Drupal skills including creating views, knowledge of multilingual Drupal implementations
Drupal site architecture and building blocks including content types, fields entities, taxonomy, and menu system.
Experience with Drupal hooks and APIs
Confidently collaborate with team members: Site Owner, Project Manager, Creative Director, Engineering, Tech Ops
Self-motivated, detail oriented and self-organized
PHP (3+ years), jQuery/JavaScript (1+ years)
Experience with creating sites with responsive design
4-year degree required
NICE-TO-HAVE SKILLS:
Experience with GitHub as a source control repository (1+ years)
Photoshop (1+ years)
Experience with Jira Bug Tracking tool (1+ years)
Agile experience (1+ years)
Built a site using the Acquia cloud
Comprehensive knowledge of caching layers (apc, memcache, varnish, block and Views cache)
Performance tuning