If you like to work on exciting projects, use the latest technologies, be surrounded by people with tons of experience who are eager to teach you all the secrets, this is the place for you. Let’s work together to build amazing things and never stop learning.

We are recruiting for the following positions:

Development Team

Creative Team

To apply, drop us a line via our contact form. Designers and developers are encouraged to send links to their portfolios, code samples or Github accounts.

Development Team

Drupal Developer

76design is looking for an advanced Drupal developer to maintain and add functionality to existing Drupal-based websites.

Position type: Full time, part time and freelance job seekers are welcome to apply.

Location: You must live in Canada. This is either an on-site or remote position depending on where you live.

About the position: The successful candidate will:

  • Extend custom modules and themes and develop new ones from scratch
  • Integrate Drupal with React for interaction-rich frontend user interfaces
  • Set up and configure sites, including content types, taxonomy, views, menus, etc.
  • Apply Core/module patches and updates

Required experience:

  • Drupal 7 and 8
  • Drush
  • Command line
  • GitHub
  • React
  • Bootstrap

Nice-to-have experience:

  • Google Maps, Leaflet, GeoJSON and/or other GIS
  • Solr and/or ElasticSearch
  • MailGun, SendGrid or other transactional email services
  • GraphQL
  • Strong CSS and HTML and an eye for design
  • UI and UX notions and best practices

Qualification requirements:

  • College or university degree, diploma or certificate, and/or equivalent work experience

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Web Developer (Freelance)

If you are a freelance Web Developer who wants to work on great projects while staying independent, we want to work with you. You can work from any location as long we you make yourself available via Slack or video chat while working on projects with us.

You will collaborate closely with our in-house development and design team.

Here’s what we’re looking for:

  • Experience coding WordPress and Drupal plugins and modules
  • Comfortable with SSH, the command line and Git
  • Experience with JS frameworks and JQuery
  • Ability to code responsive themes that perfectly match design mock-ups
  • Good understanding of SEO and Google Analytics

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Front-end Web Developer

At 76design, we build websites and web applications with an emphasis on rich interactivity, intuitive interfaces and UX, design excellence, security and scalability. The 76design team brings together experts from complementary fields including product management, web application development, user experience and user interface design and website design.

76design is looking for a front end web developer to join the team and help build web applications for a variety of clients.

Here’s what we’re looking for:

  • Experience with Drupal and/or WordPress
  • Able to develop custom, responsive themes using Bootstrap
  • Very comfortable with PHP, JQuery and/or JavaScript frameworks
  • Strength writing MySql queries
  • Comfortable applying updates to Drupal using Drush

Priority consideration will be given to candidates comfortable with GitHub and/or Subversion, and comfortable using the command line.

Requirements:

  • College or university degree, diploma or certificate, and/or equivalent work experience
  • Experience in building at least one big website and/or web application

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Quality Assurance (QA) Analyst

76design is looking for a QA Analyst to join the development team.

The QA Analyst is responsible for ensuring the quality and optimal performance of the websites and web applications built and maintained by the development team. You will work closely with web developers and product managers.

Position type: Full time

Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

About the position: The successful candidate will:

  • Develop and validate test cases based on requirements
  • Test using a variety of system configurations and devices
  • Maintain documentation of test results for various systems and features
  • Maintain product documentation and how-to guides
  • Develop test plans
  • Assess and recommend tools to improve QA efficiency

Required experience:

  • Understanding of QA processes, testing modalities and testing tools
  • Understanding of accessibility testing (WCAG)
  • Documenting test cases
  • Logging bugs/issues using an Issue Tracking system

Nice-to-have experience:

  • Ability to write scripts to automate testing

Qualification requirements: College or university degree, diploma or certificate, and/or equivalent work experience in a related field.

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System Administrator

The ideal candidate loves open source and playing with servers.

Your typical workweek at 76design will involve:

  • provisioning and configuring web and database servers;
  • tuning servers for maximum performance;
  • troubleshooting redundant architectures and load balancers;
  • creating and maintaining shell scripts; and
  • applying critical and non-critical updates to Drupal and WordPress.

You will work with experienced technical peers who are eager to help you hone your skills and grow professionally every day.

Requirements:

  • Degree, diploma or certificate in relevant field and/or equivalent work experience
  • Proficiency in Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS, etc.), Nginx, Apache and MySql

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Creative Team

Digital Content Producer

We are looking for Digital Content Producers to help us create and publish content on our clients’ websites. Freelancers are welcome to apply.

You will be using Content Management Systems (Drupal, WordPress) to create, edit and style content for the web. You will also help the web development team test and document website features and functionality.

The ideal candidate has:

  • Experience using Drupal and/or WordPress to publish content
  • Experience with inline HTML/CSS to style content
  • Knowledge of WCAG and usability best practices concerning web content
  • Knowledge of Photoshop or similar programs to crop, resize, retouch and compress images for web publishing
  • A university or college degree in a related field

The following skills will be considered important additional assets:

  • Bilingual English and French
  • A background in Web or Graphic Design
  • Video editing skills (video for the web and social media)
  • Knowledge of user interface design and user experience principles

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Data Visualization Specialist (Freelance)

If you are passionate and knowledgeable about data visualization methods, tools and techniques; and you have an interest in open data, we want to work with you. We are looking for data visualization freelancers who want to work on great projects while staying independent. You can work from any location as long we you make yourself available via Slack or video chat while working on projects with us.

You will work with web application developers and graphics designers to:

  • Use data visualization tools to represent data from a variety of datasets;
  • Find the most adequate visualization techniques to apply to each job;
  • Create static and interactive visualizations; and
  • Provide support for quantitative data analysis.

About you / Critical competencies:

  • Degree in graphic design, computer sciences or field related to the position;
  • Knowledge of databases;
  • Expertise in data visualization and mapping; and
  • Expertise in quantitative data analysis.

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Digital Designer

The ideal candidate is a creative and hard working designer who is passionate about technology. Someone who understands how to make an impact using social media and who loves to explore new apps.

Your typical workweek at 76design will involve:

  • designing user experiences and interfaces that result in intuitive products;
  • using data visualization techniques to present data in compelling ways;
  • designing infographics that boil down rich information into engaging stories;
  • finding the perfect images to support great content;
  • help colleagues with your HTML skills to make content accessible; and
  • track and measure success metrics, and use the insight to fine tune your work.

You will work with experienced creative, technical and communication colleagues who are eager to help you hone your skills and grow professionally every day.

Requirements:

  • Degree, diploma or certificate in Graphic Design or similar program
  • Strong instincts or formal training in data visualization
  • Experience designing for mobile and the web
  • Proficiency in Photoshop and Illustrator (experience with other Adobe products is a plus)
  • Working knowledge of HTML and CSS and responsive design is desired

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