Perl Developer for real-time news company (onsite), United States, NY, New York City

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Posted: October 31, 2006

Job title:
Perl Developer for real-time news company

Company name: Wall Street Source

Location: United States, NY, New York City

Pay rate: DOE

Travel: 0%

Terms of employment: Salaried employee

Length of employment: Permenant

Hours: Full time

Onsite: yes

Description:
Wall Street Source is searching for Developers with a background in
database-driven applications who will play an important role in the
continued expansion of our real-time information services.

We're looking for well-rounded developers with anywhere from 2-5 years
(Junior - Midlevel) of Perl development experience.  Good candidates will
have experience developing well-tested, well-structured OO-perl
applications.  If your development workstation runs Linux, that's a plus. 
If you've ever contributed to anything on CPAN, that's also a plus.


Required skills:
* Perl.  Experience using Perl as a real development language, and not just
for 50- shell scripts.
* A BS in computer science or relevant programming experience.
* Linux, MySQL, experience developing applications and running systems in a
networked environment.
* Strong written and interpersonal skills.


Desired skills:
* Experience working with high-traffic websites or large datasets/loads.
* Experience with the principals of search engine technology, or experience
with commercial search engines (e.g. Verity, Endeca, FAST).
* Experience with messaging systems (Tibco, TAO/ACE, ActiveMQ, etc)
* Experience with commercial news feeds (DowJones, Reuters, etc).
* Flash and the Flash Media Server


URL for more information:
http://www.wssource.com/index.php?sub=careers

Contact information at:
http://jobs.perl.org/job/4386#contact