(Anywhere, Washington DC Metro Area) Saforian is a small, professional creative firm located in Northern Virginia. We are growing our team and looking for a talent.
Our flexible services focus on high-quality design, standards-based front-end code, and open source back-end development. We have a large variety of clients ranging from non-profits to restaurants to large corporations. Most of our exciting new projects are utilizing Drupal as the core CMS. Your role would be our primary back-end developer on these client sites: configuring Drupal, customizing existing modules, and creating custom ones when needed. You will also help define requirements for new projects, and take the lead in planning and developing new small-to-midsize PHP/MySQL web apps (outside of Drupal) for clients.
Being a creative firm, you will need to have a decent eye for design and coordinate with our visual and interface designers when developing user-friendly sites.
We do not have a central office, so you will be able to work independently from home. Preference will given to someone in the DC metropolitan area so we can still meet occasionally.
Skills Requested:
 

• Strong experience with professional and best practice PHP development
• Advanced experience with Drupal custom module development (theming experience a plus)
• Skilled with multiple database systems, MySQL required, MS SQL or Oracle a plus
• Experience with LAMP based server required
• Experience with integrating with 3rd party systems (MS SQL, Facebook, Twitter, etc) is a plus
• JavaScript/jQuery experience desired.
• Develop and test secure, clean, and well-commented code
• Familiarity with Windows based servers a plus
• Able to communicate and play well with our visual designers and front-end coders to ensure output is beautiful and user friendly
• Decent web standards knowledge (HTML, CSS). You don't have to be a CSS and accessibility guru... just solid enough to maintain and expand valid templates from our ace front-end coders/themers
• Able to multi-task on multiple projects at once 
• Can work independently from home and still meet tight deadlines
• Willing to work up to full-time hours (40 a week) for a small, but growing design firm without a rigid corporate structure or office -- set your own hours as long as you get the job done
• Can communicate well with clients and (if you're in the DC area) willing to attend meetings 
• Can start right away! We're hoping for a freelance developer with the availability to work up to a full-time schedule (40 hours). Start on a trial freelance/contract basis so you can get familiar with our company.

 Apply: Job starts immediately! Please send your resume, portfolio, and salary requirements to jobs@saforian.com. We'll try to respond quickly. Learn more about us at www.saforian.com.