Perl Developer, London, SW6 (not remotely)

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Posted: July 21, 2017

Job title: Perl Developer

Company name: Adzuna

Location: London, SW6 (not remotely)

Terms of employment: Salaried employee

Hours: Full time

Description:
We’re looking for a Perl developer to help us make job search better. This
is a rare and exciting opportunity to be a part of the ongoing development
and rapid growth of the Adzuna job search engine in one of the UK’s most
dynamic and fastest-growing startups.

Our infrastructure is built around
industry-standard open-source tools and runs on distributed clusters. You
will be a key member of a small, experienced team that oversees all aspects
of our operations, ranging from powering our international websites,
aggregating classifieds from thousands of external sources, to crunching
job market data to power our statistics and applying machine learning
algorithms to enhance job seekers’ experience.	

At Adzuna you will work
independently in a fast-moving, low-structure environment where you will
have the opportunity to help shape our technical direction and processes as
we grow. An appreciation of the ‘DevOps’ movement is essential as we manage
and monitor the systems ourselves. You will also need to understand the
importance of building structured code that is fast, scalable, reliable and
robust.

The projects you will work on will include new search features,
relevancy and matching algorithms, APIs and ‘big data’ analysis, reporting
tools and features to enhance the job search experience on Adzuna. Our
systems have been built to scale, and you will be able to demonstrate your
experience in writing scalable code running in distributed environments.

We offer a fun and supportive working environment, with an emphasis on
team-working, mentoring and training. Adzuna is an exciting high-growth
business where you can make a huge difference, with a market competitive
package including stock options.

In this role you will:

- Partner with
other developers and data scientists to improve existing systems and
develop new functionality and tools

- Analyse business and technical
requirement and develop solutions, taking into account variable aspects,
such as performance, scalability, ease of maintenance and cost.

- Help
refactor existing processes and workflows to improve efficiency

-
Participate in R&D of new technology trends and tools

- Assist and mentor
members of our development team



About Adzuna


Adzuna is a search engine
for job ads used by over 10 million visitors per month that aims to list
every job, everywhere. We search thousands of websites so our users don’t
have to, bringing together millions of ads in one place. By providing
smarter search options and powerful data about the job market, as well as
unique tools like ValueMyCV, we give jobseekers the information they need
to take control of their careers.

Adzuna’s data also powers the Number 10
Dashboard, used by the Prime Minister and senior officials to keep track of
economic growth on a daily basis.
Adzuna launched in the UK in July 2011
and now operates in 16 countries. We have a great, international team, top
class investors, recently won an award for best crowdfunding round of the
year, and have been recognised as one of the government’s Future Fifty and
Sunday Times Tech Track 100 fastest-growing tech companies in Britain.

Adzuna’s mission is to be the best place to start looking for a job. We
love using the awesome power of technology to help match people to better,
more fulfilling jobs and keep Britain working.


What we offer

-
Competitive salary

- Stock options

- An opportunity to be part of a
high-growth startup business with a friendly, informal, no-politics,
low-hierarchy, multicultural team culture

- The chance to work with and
learn from a highly motivated team of experienced internet professionals
who want to make job search better

- Startup benefits like a positive
attitude towards flexible working and families, your birthday off,
cycle-to-work scheme, childcare vouchers, regular team training sessions -
plus a table tennis table and a programme of team social events

- Bright,
airy office in the heart of bustling Fulham Broadway

Desired skills:
Required skills

- 4+ years with high-volume/high-traffic
applications/sites

- Excellent Object-Oriented Perl, preferably including
Moose

- Strong SQL (ideally MySQL) and DBIx::Class

- Experience with unit
and functional testing (Test::More etc.)

- Good experience with Unix/Linux

- Version control systems, ideally Git

- Solid understanding of
application data flow and lifecycles

- Strong attention to detail



Useful extra skills / experience


- Solr, Lucene, ElasticSearch or other
search engine

- Templating frameworks (ideally Template Toolkit)

-
Classified ads / vertical search websites

- Varnish, nginx, PSGI/Plack,
Apache httpd, FastCGI

- Spidering technology

- Search technology and
search engine optimisation

- Cloud infrastructure and tools (AWS
preferred)

- Chef (pref), Puppet or an equivalent

- Gearman or other
distributed queueing/messaging frameworks

- Unicode and
internationalisation

- Machine learning / neural nets

- Python

Website for more information: http://www.adzuna.co.uk/about-us.html

Contact information at:
http://jobs.perl.org/job/19756#contact