Perl Developer for Financial Institution (onsite), United States, CA, San Francisco

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Posted: October 12, 2006

Job title: Perl Developer for Financial Institution

Company name: CSI/Consultant Specialists Inc.

Internal ID: PerlSF

Location: United States, CA, San Francisco

Pay rate: market

Travel: 0%

Terms of employment: Independent contractor (hourly)

Length of employment: 3-6 months

Hours: Full time

Onsite: yes

Description:
* Find and remove unused code. 
* Move code into proper package namespaces. 
* Enable strictures and warnings in hundreds of files. 
* Convert Perl-4 code to Perl-5 constructs and syntax. 
* Write or generate test cases for legacy libraries. 
* Apply Conway's best-practices and enforce standards. 
* Reorganize code into CPAN-style distributions using Module::Build. 
* Refactor & rewrite procedural code into object-oriented code. 
* Extract inline SQL into an external dictionary. 
* Create a tool for reporting every caller of every subroutine through
static analysis. 
* Reorganize code in an SVN repository. 
* Automate our build process.


Required skills:
Required skills: 
- Writing object-oriented and procedural Perl code. 
- Working in a Unix command-line environment. 
- Writing unit tests using the Test::* modules. 
- Judging risks associated with code changes. 
- vi or emacs. 
- Organize tasks and track their dependencies. 
- Communicate progress and describe roadblocks promptly. 
- Take direction and work with limited supervision (about 1 hour per day.) 

Desired skills:
Desired skills: 
- Refactoring tools and techniques. 
- Source-code management tools (SVN, CVS). 
- In-depth knowledge of what is available on CPAN. 
- Creating CPAN modules. 


Contact information at:
http://jobs.perl.org/job/4784#contact