Drupal developer Elevated Third hiring developer and designer in early 2014

Monday, January 20, 2014

Elevated Third Founder and CEO Jeff Calderone says the 22-employee firm recently hired a data analyst and will bring on a designer and a developer in the near term.

"We've been interviewing pretty aggressively," says Calderone. The company will make a hire for the developer position "as soon as we find the right person," he adds. "We're pretty picky."

Calderone says 2013 was a good year for the company in terms of projects.

Highlights included work for Shanghai-based developer Longkai Group as well as local clients Denver Botanic Gardens, Core Power Yoga and Summit Materials.

"Sprint Relay is still a big client," says Calderone. Elevated Third has done several projects for Sprint's $100 million business unit that develops telephony products for the hearing impaired. "My parents are both deaf, so I got the introduction through them."

Elevated Third is very active in the Drupal community, he adds, as an enterprise partner of Acquia and a sponsor of DrupalCon.

"Drupal 8 is coming," says Calderone. "That's the next enterprise level. There's a lot of device-agnostic features that make it easy to do responsive sites."