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Posted: August 21, 2006

Job title: mod_perl Programmer

Company name: Shopzilla

Location: United Kingsdom, London

Pay rate: Market Rate

Travel: 0%

Terms of employment: Salaried employee

Hours: Full time

Onsite: yes

Description:
Shopzilla is one of the world’s largest shopping search engine. With an
index of over 35 million products from more than 75,000 stores, gathered,
organized and presented using all proprietary leading-edge technology,
Shopzilla provides consumers with the best way to find virtually anything
for sale, anywhere, and at the best price. In addition to our flagship
sites in the UK, France, Germany and US, Shopzilla also powers shopping
search for many of the Web's largest consumer sites including AOL, Lycos,
and many others. 

At Shopzilla, our goal is to build the greatest shopping service. We’re an
environment where great ideas shape our vision and true passion drives us
to the best solutions to the most challenging problems at the intersection
of shopping and search. 

As Senior Software Engineer you will:

Share responsibility and ownership of the Shopzilla.com website
Work closely with R&D and business analytics teams 
Dream up and design new products and functionality
Write code used by millions of people per day
Work closely with a team of engineers on a daily and global basis
Develop core technology, including the design/architecture of new solutions
and the refactoring and refinement of existing systems
Mentor junior members of the team
Serve as key architect for many key classes, protocols, and APIs
Help shape the future of online shopping


Required skills:
Perl/mod_perl
RDBMS fundamentals
Proficient in Object Oriented design and development
Ability to formally communicate architectural designs and plans
Experience working with developers and project/business owners
Experience integrating open source technologies in application development


Desired skills:
Test-driven development
Fundamentals in design patterns
Participation in Agile development environment
Template Toolkit experience
Degree in Computer Science or comparable experience
Domain experience in n-tier web application development 
Working experience with web and networking protocols and concepts


URL for more information: http://www.shopzilla.co.uk/

Contact information at:
http://jobs.perl.org/job/4541#contact
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