Perl Developer / Sustainer (part onsite), St. Albans, UK

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Posted: March 27, 2020

Job title: Perl Developer / Sustainer

Company name: Masters Traditional Games

Location: St. Albans, UK

Pay rate: £35K

Terms of employment: Salaried employee

Hours: Flexible

Onsite: some

Description:
For the last 20 years, I have created in Perl a website shop, product and
inventory management system, order processing and stock ordering system
plus.  But I am not a developer - I am the owner of a company that now has
4 employees and turns over £1.5million pa. I need someone to start as a
Perl sidekick who will grow to take over much of the Perl work that I do. 

Initial Project – Set up a Straightforward Perl Development Environment
Thereafter - sustain and fix bugs, some urgent, in the existing system.
Gradually migrate the existing system to better ways of doing things. And
write some new features as they become required. Some sysadmin work may
also need doing.  

You will need to live with some pretty peculiar coding
that I've left behind me over the years. It's vital that you are able to
understand other people's code and are able to make fixes without complete
rewrites (most of the time).

All manner of stuff comes up - you may need
to be involved with product feeds into Amazon, fixing email relays
identifying a memory leak or lifting a skittles table into position at any
point!

I am willing to be flexible to get the right person. Part-time,
flexible hours, remote working, contract or permanent as desired. But
visits to the office will be necessary - probably every day to begin with
and then we'll have to see what works.

Desired skills:
* Perl or maybe not if you are already a coder and have a willingness to
learn Perl.
* MySQL or an understanding of relational databases.
* Caution
* We are a Windows shop with hints of Linux.

Also useful: 
Apache
HTML,
CSS
Windows and/or Linux admin
Sysadmin skills - e.g. LAN/WANs, VMs, DNS,
Samba, 
A liking for traditional games - board games or physical games

Website for more information: https://www.mastersofgames.com

Contact information at:
http://jobs.perl.org/job/21706#contact