Sr. Software Developer (Perl) (onsite), United States, CA, West Los Angeles

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Posted: November  1, 2006

Job title: Sr. Software Developer (Perl)

Company name: Shopzilla.com

Internal ID: PerlDev

Location: United States, CA, West Los Angeles

Pay rate: DOE

Travel: 0-25%

Terms of employment: Salaried employee

Length of employment: Full-time Employee

Hours: Full time

Onsite: yes

Description:
Shopzilla, formerly BizRate.com, is the world’s largest and fastest growing
shopping search engine. Based in West Los Angeles, CA, Shopzilla is a part
of the $7.6 billion E.W. Scripps Company. 

As our Senior Software Developer, you will: 

• Implement data processing to optimization content on our popular shopping
web site • You will collect, store, condition, evaluate and organize large
data sets to drive dynamic features on our web sites which enhance the user
experience and improve the way people shop 

Your qualifications include: 

• 3 years experience writing mathematical, optimization type, code and
architecting data driven systems • 3 years perl, java or C++ programming
experience in a production environment • 3 years SQL, Stored procedure
programming or PL/SQL • 3 years unix/Linux development experience in a
production environment • Strongly self-motivated learner • Excellent oral
and written communication skills • B.S. Computer Science or equivalent 

Additional desired skills: 

• Sybase experience a plus • Sybase IQ experience a plus • Oracle
experience a plus • Experience with web sites and web services a plus •
Familiarity with optimization techniques such as Bayesian networks,
decision trees, neural nets, dynamic programming, HMM, clustering,
regression, estimation and forecasting. 


Required skills:
Perl, java or C++ programming experience in a production environment; SQL,
Stored procedure programming or PL/SQL; Unix/Linux development experience
in a production environment.

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 can make a
real difference to helping millions of consumers, then we need to talk. 

About Shopzilla: 

With an index of over 30 million products from more than 75,000 stores,
gathered, organized and presented using all proprietary leading-edge
technology, 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. 

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

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

Shopzilla is an Equal Opportunity Employer. 

Desired skills:
Sybase, Sybase IQ, Oracle experience a plus; Experience with web sites and
web services a plus; Familiarity with optimization techniques such as
Bayesian networks, decision trees, neural nets, dynamic programming, HMM,
clustering, regression, estimation and forecasting

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

Contact information at:
http://jobs.perl.org/job/4879#contact