Two Things that Make Perl Developers Happy - Mid-to-Senior Perl Developer in London (onsite), London Bridge, London, UK

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Posted: May 28, 2017

Job title:
Two Things that Make Perl Developers Happy - Mid-to-Senior Perl Developer
in London

Company name: Perl Jobs by Perl Careers

Location: London Bridge, London, UK

Terms of employment: Salaried employee

Hours: Full time

Onsite: yes

Description:
Not everyone’s like me. Perhaps nobody’s like me. But when it comes to
enjoying programming jobs, and particularly when it comes to enjoying Perl
programming jobs, there are two things that are needed to make me happy
that I suspect resonate with most other career developers.

The first of
those is working with a codebase that doesn’t fight me back. Nietzsche
famously wrote:

"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he
himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the
abyss also gazes into you."

Earlier in my career I had a real sense of
machismo about working with poor quality codebases. The amount of
low-hanging fruit that is pickable when you write the first tentative test
cases around a 42,000 line CGI script, scaffolding around globals, turning
strictures and warnings on for blocks that you can pull out of the main
body and so on can give you an exceptional feeling of progress.

But as
much fun as it can be to work around and nurse back-to-health antiquated
tooling, eventually it grinds, and you start wondering if letting the
patient die would be the kindest thing for everyone involved. You find
yourself not delivering your best work, because why cast Perl before swine?
Hand-crafting releases instead of using dzil, non-automated release
processes, and the fear that your changes will blow up parts of the code
that aren’t properly tested is exhausting.

One day you decide you don’t
want to be working the life-support shift, and you’d rather be working with
a Modern, clean, and sane Perl codebase, using best-practice tooling. And
you realize it’ll make you happy.

The second thing that makes me happy is
working on products that are expanding, and that are growing. To be using
my programming skills to work towards building something excellent, rather
than working to keep the ship floating.

When you’re working to deliver
new, exciting features to customers, as part of a well-thought-through plan
to grow the company and team you’re a part of, work is exciting. You know
you’re building things that will improve some small (or large) corner of
the world, and that you work has some actual meaning, beyond generating the
latest batch of TPS reports.

And so it gives me great pleasure to have a
role on the books that fits both criteria:

* The codebase is Modern, sane,
and clean, and overseen by technical management that absolutely insist on
keeping it that way;

* The company and development team are growing, and
the new technical products you’ll be working on are an absolutely vital
(and consumer-facing) part of that.

If it’s time to move on from your
current role, and you’d relish the opportunity to be consistently happy at
work – and indeed to allow the work you do day to day to contribute of your
enjoyment of that work, this is the role for you.

PS: a simple commute is
also a huge win, and the client is near to a major transport hub in Central
London.

Desired skills:
Perl

A desire to do things the right way

Experience with Modern Perl is a
massive advantage

Website for more information:
https://perl.careers/jobs/two-things-that-make-developers-happy---mid-to-se
nior-perl-developer-in-london/

Contact information at:
http://jobs.perl.org/job/20806#contact