Perl Developer (onsite), London, UK

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Posted: November  2, 2017

Job title: Perl Developer

Company name: Yoox Net-A-Porter

Location: London, UK

Pay rate: 50-60K GBP

Terms of employment: Salaried employee

Hours: Full time

Onsite: yes

Description:
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Software Developer to
join us.

Joining an Agile team, this is an opportunity to establish a
close relationship with our product owners and users and make a real
difference in a fast-paced online retail environment. We deliver value to
our business every release, meaning that you will immediately be able to
contribute and make a positive impact.

Our approach to technology is to
use the right tool for the job and, through TDD and CI/CD, to build high
quality solutions that are built with a view to maintenance.

To build on
our success, we are looking for smart, conscientious software developers
who want to work in a friendly, hard-working environment and take our
platform and products forward. In return you will be exposed to the latest
technologies, frameworks & methodologies in application development.

The
Role:

* 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

Note that this is role is based in London, UK.
You must be eligible to work in the UK to apply for this role. If you
require a visa to work in the UK you will need to have this before you
apply.

Desired skills:
Required Skills & Experience:

* Server-side development in Perl
*
Client-side development in Javascript
* SQL/RDBMS (we use PostgreSQL and
MySQL)
* Version control systems (we use git)
* Able to investigate &
trouble-shoot technical issues
* Able to rapidly and effectively
context-switch
* Linux OS familiarity

Desirable Skills & Experience:

Experience of any of the following will be useful but training will be
provided to the right candidate.

* Able to develop web-based user
interfaces (HTML, CSS) & APIs (JSON & XML)
* Server side development in
Javascript (Node.js) 
* Knowledge of CPAN modules and frameworks,
particularly: DBI, DBIx::Class, Catalyst, Plack, Template Toolkit and Moose
*  Knowledge of NPM libaries and frameworks, including test frameworks
* 
Search Technology (we use Elasticsearch)
*  RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, Amazon SQS
*  Puppet or similar configuration management solutions
*  Experience
building and testing high-availability applications
*  Agile development
methodologies and practises (Scrum, Kanban, TDD)
*  Implementing continuous
delivery (ideally using Jenkins and OpenStack)

Understanding of:

*  Perl,
Javascript & Linux conventions
*  Perl & Javascript testing frameworks
* 
Refactoring

We are looking for candidates that:

*  Are passionate about
software development
*  Are good communicators with good writing skills
* 
Have a healthy dose of common sense and initiative
*  Have a great sense of
humour and attitude

Website for more information: http://www.ynap.com/

Contact information at:
http://jobs.perl.org/job/21052#contact