- Must have strong Drupal, PHP w/ Symfony, heavy SQL, REST API’s, Elastic Search, and strong JavaScript (prefer some Angular)
Important Technical Experience
- Drupal – very important candidates are strong as they have no other expertise on the team
- PHP –still a must have that whoever comes into this role is a very strong PHP developer
- Symfony – same as Drupal, manager used it years ago so he won’t be of much help as it has probably changed a lot since he last used it.
- Javascript, SQL, XML, REST API’s, and elastic search/apache solr/GSA, all super important as well as CI/CD exposure.
- This developer will be very independent and there won’t be many people to ask questions which is why the managers are being so picky.
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- Experience to Look For:
- -building websites from scratch on drupal or migrating them
- -experience building multi service portals
Important Skills
Technical – Javascript based languages, elastic search, PHP, Symfony, Drupal
Soft –
Must Haves:
- 3-6 years’ experience
- Very Strong JavaScript Based Languages
- Solid HTML / CSS skills
- PHP with exposure to Symfony
- Drupal – any version will do
- CI/CD –
- Solid SQL Skills – oracle, know a join. Query data. Persistence architecture – use that and persist infromation, take this security and stor ein DB do that in Java. Very object oriented never interacted w a DB directly.
- REST APIs
- XML Literate
- Strong Documentation Skills
- Elastic Search
Plus:
- Angular a plus but not required – any version just something more advanced than js & HTML. (react, vue, basic jquery. AJAX – any of these)
- Typescript