Sr. Software Architect (Perl) (telecommute), United States, CA, West Los Angeles

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Posted: November  1, 2006

Job title: Sr. Software Architect (Perl)

Company name: Shopzilla.com

Internal ID: PerlArchi

Location: United States, CA, West Los Angeles

Pay rate: Competitive

Travel: 0-25%

Terms of employment: Salaried employee

Length of employment: Full-time

Hours: Full time

Onsite: no

Description:
Shopzilla, formerly BizRate.com, is a leading online shopping search
engine. With over 30 million products from more than 50,000 stores,
gathered, organized and presented using a combination of proprietary and
open source technologies, Shopzilla provides consumers the best way to find
virtually anything for sale, anywhere, and at the best price. In addition
to our flagship site ( http://www.shopzilla.com), Shopzilla also powers
shopping search for many of the Web's largest consumer sites including AOL,
Lycos, Time Warner's RoadRunner, and many others. 
Sound interesting yet? 

At Shopzilla, our goal is to build the greatest shopping service ever
conceived by mankind. To that end, we strive to hire the smartest people.
We foster 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. 

How much would you expect to pay to join our cadre of rogue, renegade
engineers? Don't answer yet! 

As our Sr. Software Engineer/Architect, you will: 

* Architect and implement new projects * Serve as tech lead on projects
from inception to deployment * Act as technical representative during
proposal phase of projects * Help define overall architecture and standards
for entire team 

Your qualifications include: 

* Exceptional communication skills * Enjoys working in a tight knit team
development environment * 5+ years of object oriented programming * Skilled
in developing dynamic, object oriented, web applications * Architecting web
applications * Perl/mod_perl, Apache, and UNIX/Linux skills * Comfortable
with RDBMS concepts 

But wait, there's more! 

Desired skills include: * Test-driven development * Understands design
patterns * Participated in Agile development environment * Template Toolkit
experience * BS in Computer Science or comparable experience 

Shopzilla offers great benefits including medical, dental and vision plans,
life insurance, 401(k) plan, flexible spending account, generous vacation
benefits -- and FREE catered lunch everyday! 

So, if you are the super-star type -- the one all look to as the smartest
in your area of expertise -- love challenging yourself, and are searching
for a place to work where people care, your ideas matter and you'll enjoy
showing up for work; don't walk, run to your nearest email sending device
and contact us. 

TELECOMMUTERS welcome! 

Please apply for this position via this link:
http://www.resourcehire.com/clients/shopzilla/publicjobs/controller.cfm?jba
ction=JobProfile&Job_Id=10116&esid=az

Shopzilla is an Equal Opportunity Employer. 

Required skills:
* Exceptional communication skills * Enjoys working in a tight knit team
development environment * 5+ years of object oriented programming * Skilled
in developing dynamic, object oriented, web applications * Architecting web
applications * Perl/mod_perl, Apache, and UNIX/Linux skills * Comfortable
with RDBMS concepts 

Desired skills:
* Test-driven development * Understands design patterns * Participated in
Agile development environment * Template Toolkit experience * BS in
Computer Science or comparable experience 


URL for more information: http://www.shopzilla.com/

Contact information at:
http://jobs.perl.org/job/4629#contact