PERL Developer – Moose,Catalyst/Dancer/Mojolicious, DBIx::Class, W12

PERL Developer – Moose,Catalyst/Dancer/Mojolicious, DBIx::Class

Contract: 6 to 12 Months

Locations: West London

Rate: £425 to £465 per Day

One of the world’s leading and most innovative on-line shopping retailers is looking to employ the services of PERL Developer with server-side and Linux experience who has been used to working in an Agile environment adhering to Test Driven Development (TDD). You will work within a team in a fast paced retail environment using the latest technologies, frameworks and methodologies.

Main tasks & Responsibilities

The PERL Developer will:

• Build high quality applications and HTTP based services

• Work closely with both technical and non-technical members in the team

• Develop a good understanding of business requirements and write technical specifications

• Ensure that work is well-planned, estimated, implemented, tested, and documented

• Identify and help plan improvements to systems

• Participate in code review and mentoring processes

• Keep up with industry trends and experiment with new tools, technologies & development methods with a view to adopting best practices that fit the business

• Monitor and support production systems

Essential Skills & Experience:

The PERL Developer will have:

• Server-side development in PERL

• SQL/RDBMS – PostgreSQL

• Version control systems – Git

• Able to investigate & trouble-shoot technical issues

• Able to rapidly and effectively context-switch

• Linux OS familiarity

Desirable (not essential) Skills & Experience:

The PERL Developer will ideally have some of:

• Able to develop web-based user interfaces (HTML, CSS) & APIs (JSON & XML)

• Knowledge of CPAN modules and frameworks, particularly: DBI, DBIx::Class, Catalyst, Plack, Template Toolkit and Moose

• AJAX, JavaScript & JS frameworks – jQuery

• Experience building and testing high-availability applications

• Agile development methodologies and practises (Scrum, Kanban, TDD)

• Developing remote services with Perl and working with SOA

• Implementing continuous delivery (ideally using Jenkins and OpenStack)

• One or more JVM based languages and/or Ruby (specifically using the Cucumber test framework)

• Perl & Linux conventions

• Message queues – ActiveMQ

• Perl testing frameworks

• Refactoring

Key Words:

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