Foundation Software Developer (part onsite), Manchester City Centre, UK

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Posted: March 12, 2021

Job title: Foundation Software Developer

Company name: SpareRoom

Location: Manchester City Centre, UK

Terms of employment: Salaried employee

Hours: Full time

Onsite: some

Description:
SpareRoom was launched in 2004. Since then we've helped over 10 million
people in the UK and US find homes to share and great people to share them
with. We believe living with the right people beats living alone, so our
mission is a simple one - to create happier flatshares.

We're a modern
family business, 100% owned by the founder and directors. That means we're
able to put our users at the heart of everything we do and we love working
with humble people who bring a positive energy and like to get stuff done.

We are looking for a developer to join us to increase the delivery capacity
of our core team. Our core platform is written mostly in Perl (with small
projects in Node.js and C#) and supports both an API for apps (iOS and
Android) and a web front end.

What you can expect to do as a Core
Developer at SpareRoom:
- To work with modern Perl for our main web
application and use other technologies, languages and tools like MySQL,
Gearman, Memcached, Sphinx, Golang, Node.js, C#, GitHub and Jenkins.
- Help
develop new features, make improvements and fix bugs in a secure,
well-tested, and performant way.
- Develop and extend RESTful APIs.
- To
help maintain current mailshots and extend our in-house email tools to
allow for self service email sending for our marketing team.
- Use MySQL to
gather data and create custom, reusable reports for internal use.

How we
like to work:
- Simple, easy to read code
- Small iterative releases
-
Continuous testing environment
- Test Driven Development
- Collaboration
over isolation
- Short lived, self-organised, project teams
- Pair coding
in order to share & improve skills and code quality

You should apply if
you:
- Have experience developing large scale object-oriented software
projects.
- Have an interest in working across all areas of the system
including performance and security.
- Have experience with Relational
Databases (e.g. MySQL) and common web technologies.
- Have an interest in
working with Perl (experience would be considered a significant plus but
not a requirement as training will be provided).
- Enjoy collaborating with
others to solve complex domain problems.
- Enjoy finding quick solutions to
customer issues.

What it's like to work at SpareRoom:
- Competitive
salary.
-Flexible, fun and challenging work environment where innovative
ideas are encouraged
- Central Manchester location in modern spacious
offices, with free fruit, a posh coffee machine and a housekeeper to keep
you refreshed
- Active social life outside of work with various regular
events supported by the company
- Choice of development equipment and
opportunity to influence team culture and approach

Excellent benefits
including:
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Season travel loans
- Matched pension
contributions
- Gym membership contributions
- Optional private healthcare
- Rental deposit loan scheme
-Basic holiday allowance starting at 23 days,
as well as Bank and Public Holidays. Plus, you’ll earn more the longer you
stay with us.
- And, of course, a free SpareRoom upgrade when you need it

Desired skills:
Perl
MySQL
Gearman
Memcached
Sphinx
Golang
Node.js
C#
GitHub
Jenkins
RESTful APIs

Website for more information: http://www.spareroom.co.uk/jobs

Contact information at:
http://jobs.perl.org/job/21782#contact