Chief Programmer (onsite), United States, California, Palo ALto

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Posted: July 26, 2006

Job title: Chief Programmer

Company name: Friendfinder

Internal ID: JMChief

Location: United States, California, Palo ALto

Pay rate: 100-150K

Travel: 0%

Terms of employment: Salaried employee

Length of employment: Full-Time

Hours: Full time

Onsite: yes

Description:
The Chief Programmer reports to the VP/CTO and is responsible for the
overall code base of the various Medley properties.  This includes
marketing technology, online personals, social networking, p2p
applications, production monitoring, software release tools, and support
tools.	To be successful, this individual must have a pragmatic approach
that leverages the assets and staff that already exist.  This person must
be able to understand the functionality if the various systems and to
communicate effective programming direction to the entire software
development staff.  This is a position that requires a high energy level,
exceptional interpersonal skills, efficiency, reliability, and a drive to
finish projects in timely manner. 

Required skills:
•	5+ year Software Development Experience 
•	5+ years working with Perl 
•	Exceptional written and oral skills
•	Must have prior experience developing website software using LAMP
(Linux, Apache, MySQL, and Perl).
•	Understanding of Apache configuration, DB optimization techniques
and how running mod_perl affects Apache and Perl Code.
•	Understanding how high volume and a load-balanced environment
traffic can affect coding approach.
•	Fluency in HTML, including browser compatibility issues.
•	Pluses for: SMS, Email Parsing, Linux System Admin, qmail and
experience working on a website that can be displayed in several languages.

Contact information at:
http://jobs.perl.org/job/4419#contact