We’re growing our team and are searching for our next United States-based colleague, a contractor who can work at least 10 hours/week to start. We intend for this to develop into a full-time role.
We're looking for the right human to join us, whether mid or late in a career, west coast, east coast or somewhere in-between.
Your duties
These will be your duties to start, and we’ll work together on a monthly basis to make sure they continue to be challenging and rewarding:
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Write new code
Develop functionality for websites with an eye toward maintainability, user experience, and accessibility
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Technical project management
Knowledge of agile development practices. Comfortable creating and managing tasks
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Fix bugs
Discover, investigate and fix bugs
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Communicate
Communicate with our internal team and clients to ask questions or give progress updates
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Review work
Review code with teammates
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Improve things
Suggest improvements and new approaches for projects and development processes
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Be present
Be present and prepared for team meetings
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Share and learn
Share what you know and learn from what others have to share
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Support others
Support your teammates when they’re in need
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Accept support
Allow yourself to accept support when that teammate is you
Qualities we're looking for
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Back-end Drupal
Back-end development experience on production sites using Drupal 7, 8 and 9
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Understanding technical debt
Understanding of technical debt and ability to detect "code smells"
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Communication skills
Good verbal and written communication skills. Comfortable working directly with clients.
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Diverse interests
Diverse interests and experiences
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Considerate
Warm and considerate approach toward teammates and clients alike
Bonus points for
You don't need to have experience in any of these to apply... but if you do in one or a few, tell us about it!
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Community participation
Participation in your local community, in whatever capacity
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Experience presenting
Experience presenting at conferences, camps, or meetups
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Remote experience
Experience working as part of a distributed, remote team
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Drupal.org and Github
Familiarity with the Drupal.org issue queue, Github
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Other technologies
Experience with other web frameworks and technologies
Tools
We use the command line, PHP, Git (especially Git Flow), Docker, Composer, Drush, MySQL, MariaDB, Bootstrap, JIRA, Slack, Zoom, Google Docs and we hope you'll join us in using them too. And if you've never grep'd a log file, or finished a feature branch, we hope you'll want to learn how.