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Posted: September 29, 2008

Job title: Telecommute: Perl/PHP Programmer

Company name: Rapid Intelligence

Internal ID: perlphp01

Location: Australia, NSW, Sydney

Pay rate: negotiable based on experience

Travel: 0%

Terms of employment: Salaried employee

Hours: Full time

Onsite: no

Description:

We are looking for a Perl and PHP Programmer to help maintain and develop
the frontends to our large-scale consumer websites (includes
NationMaster.com and exciting new sites). We also have Perl backends to be
maintained that work with large amounts of data. 

We offer:	

* Small, innovative team
* Opportunity to use diverse range of skills
* User focus. We're publishers. We have no clients!

Why work for us? We get over 12 million pageviews monthly, so everything
you do will hit the big time. Our mission is to make data accessible and
understandable for everyone around the world. And it should all be free! We
seek to build long term relationships with our staff and grow with them.
Most of our telecommute employees have been with us for several years. If
you enjoy challenging and rewarding projects, this job is for you.


Required skills:
Successful candidates will have the following technical knowledge and
experience:
* Advanced PHP (at least 3 years). You must be able to read others' code. 
* Perl (at least 2 years)
* MySQL
* HTML, CSS, Javascript
* Web experience

That's the technical side of things but your personality matters too. You
must have:
* Strong work ethic
* Desire to continually learn and improve
* Good communication skills in English 
* Pragmatic approach


Desired skills:

If you've got experience in any of the following areas, we'll like you even
more:
* Web scalability
* WikiMedia software
* Telecommuting
* Design
* Ad trafficking
* Analytics
* Writing
* Search engine optimisation
* System administration (LAMP) 
* Documentation. 


URL for more information: http://www.rapint.com/

Contact information at:
http://jobs.perl.org/job/9698#contact