(Senior) Perl Developer (onsite), Amsterdam

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Posted: July  6, 2017

Job title: (Senior) Perl Developer

Company name: Genscape

Location: Amsterdam

Terms of employment: Salaried employee

Hours: Full time

Onsite: yes

Description:
Due to strong international growth, Genscape is seeking a (Senior) Perl
Developer to expand the EPSI Platform development team and tackle the
challenges of scalability, speed, and data management. Based in Amsterdam,
you’ll apply and develop your deep skillset in Perl within a focused and
entrepreneurial environment to keep the EPSI platform at the cutting edge.

The EPSI platform enables European electricity market participants (power
traders, power station owners, consultants, and regulators) to develop
scenarios of short and long term market development based on supply/demand
fundamentals. This B2B web-based platform has been developed using
open-source components, based on Linux servers and with Perl as the
dominant server-side technology and ES6 / React / Backbone as the
front-end. Our product vision is centered around a superior user experience
based on execution speed, interface usability, quality, and full
integration between data and analytics. The EPSI platform was established
in 2007 and has rapidly taken a leading market position in Europe.

The key
objective of this role is to drive forward the technological foundation to
enable the continued expansion of our platform business in Europe and
internationally by expanding the capabilities of the Perl-based back end:

Expansion of the analytical feature-set in accordance with business
objectives;
The move to cloud and re-working platform architecture to take
advantage of scalability and manage growth in user numbers
Speed-optimisation of scenario execution and data storage to ensure
market-leading performance;
Expanding and re-working the ingestion and
processing of external data feeds to meet quality, flexibility, and speed
criteria.

Desired skills:
You have 5+ years’ experience in a Perl software development role
You have
a good mathematical background
You have experience working with Modern
Perl, Moo, XS, PSGI/Plack
You have experience with database architecture
and development, MySQL
Development practices: Unit testing, Refactoring
You
have used version control tools: Git
You have a familiarity with Agile
development approach
You have a master's degree in an exact science or
engineering field
You have Unix experience

Website for more information:
https://boards.greenhouse.io/genscape/jobs/751427#.WV4ZL4iGNPY

Contact information at:
http://jobs.perl.org/job/20880#contact