Perl Developer, London or Europe

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Posted: October 28, 2018

Job title: Perl Developer

Company name: Adzuna

Location: London or Europe

Pay rate: £25-60k

Terms of employment: Salaried employee

Hours: Full time

Description:
Perl Developer - remote Europe or London    £neg + stock options

About us:
Adzuna is a job search engine that lists every job, everywhere. From launch
in the UK in 2011, we now have more than 10 million visitors a month and
are busy conquering the world from our office in West London. Right now,
we're seeking an experienced Perl Developer to join our world class tech
team in helping millions of people find better, more fulfilling jobs.

The
role:
Our engineering and product teams are pivotal to Adzuna's future.
It's an exciting time as we scale our existing product offering and also
innovate with new tools and user experiences that 'surprise and delight'
our audience, like ValueMyCV, which we're really proud of. Our
infrastructure is built around industry-standard open-source tools and runs
on distributed clusters, supporting 16 internationalised Adzuna websites,
as well as the 'Find a job' portal that we run on behalf of the UK
Government.

Based in our great Fulham office, (or remotely) you will work
with a smart team of back end, dev/ops, data science/machine learning and
product specialists, overseeing 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. Vitally, you’ll value 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. 

Our opportunity offers the chance to
build something to be proud of, whilst becoming a part of one of the
fastest growing businesses in Europe. We offer a supportive working
environment, with an emphasis on team-working, mentoring and training. It's
fun and fast moving. Join us!

What we offer:
£35k-£40k if remote UK
£25-£40k if remote Europe
£50-£60k if based in our London offices
Stock
options
25 days holiday
Cycle to work scheme
Childcare vouchers
A positive
attitude towards flexible working and parental leave
A values-based culture
Company contributory pension scheme
Huge learning opportunity from smart,
experienced colleagues
Table tennis table and a program of team social
events
Bright, airy office with roof terrace, in the heart of bustling
Fulham Broadway


More 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, we give jobseekers the
information they need to take control of their careers.

Adzuna.co.uk​ was
founded in 2011 by Andrew Hunter and Doug Monro, formerly of eBay, Gumtree,
Qype and Zoopla and is backed by leading Venture Capital firms Passion
Capital, LocalGlobe, Index Ventures and Smedvig Capital.

We also supply
real-time data to the Number 10 Dashboard and Office for National
Statistics labour market indices. In 2018, Adzuna won the contract to run
‘Find a job​’, one of the British government’s most used online services.

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.

Desired skills:
We don't like to put people in boxes, but you're likely to be able to
demonstrate much of the below:

Experience in partnering with other
developers and data scientists to improve existing systems and develop new
functionality and tools

Able to analyse business and technical
requirements and develop solutions, taking into account variable aspects,
such as performance, scalability, ease of maintenance and cost.
Proven
ability to help refactor existing processes and workflows to improve
efficiency
Experienced in interested in participating in R&D of new
technology trends and tools
Passion for, or ambition to, assist and mentor
other members of our development team


Technical competency and tools

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.com

Contact information at:
http://jobs.perl.org/job/21414#contact