D4 - Deep Drupal Development, Dude | Agent16

Agent16 has an immediate opening for a freelance Drupal developer. This is a full-time, on-site, freelance/contract position near Union Square in New York City. Reports directly to the CTO.

Job Responsibilities

We’re building a number of sites based on Drupal 6. Our work departs from “usual” Drupal projects in 2 ways:

• We’re developing an advanced 2-tier layout engine that fully supports Dojo + JSON but gracefully falls back to pure PHP/HTML to support iPhone, GoogleBot etc.
• We’re developing an advanced access-control system that is a superset of Drupal access control while remaining backward-compatible.

Your role in this will be:

• Assist us in making intelligent, informed “use vs. customize vs. invent” decisions regarding Drupal modules
• Advanced theme development and customization
• Help us communicate with the Drupal community so our work doesn’t duplicate the work of others, and contributes the greatest possible value to the Drupal code base
• Help us with both planning and execution of Drupal configuration and deployment

Nearly all (98%) of our code – including work-for-hire development performed for our clients – will be contributed back to Drupal.org under a GPL 2-or-later license.

Skills – Must-have:

• Hands-on experience installing, configuring and developing Drupal 6.x sites
• Substantial experience with Drupal module and/or theme development
• General working knowledge of OO Principles
• Some experience with OO languages (Java, C#, Smalltalk, whatever)
• At least 2 years’ experience PHP coding
• Ability to read JavaScript well enough that you know what it’s doing
• Hands-on experience with and understanding of version-control (especially git)

Skills – Nice-to-have:

• Experience with Drupal 5.x
• Experience with Drupal 5.x to 6.x upgrading
• Awareness of Drupal 7 development efforts
• Hands-on experience with Dojo, JQuery or similar JS framework
• Understanding of Database Platforms (especially MySql and MS-SQL)
• Linux sysadmin chops
• Familiarity with XML/XSL/XSLT
• Familiarity with Flash/Flex
• Experience with development or lifecycle methodologies (RUP, Agile, SCRUM…)

Compensation

Fees and terms (hourly, day/week rate, fixed-fee) negotiable, market-competitive, commensurate with experience.