Perl developer for a web 2.0 startup (part onsite), United States, NY, New York

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Posted: February 12, 2007

Job title: Perl developer for a web 2.0 startup

Company name: Magnify.net

Location: United States, NY, New York

Travel: 0%

Terms of employment: Independent contractor (project-based)

Hours: Full time

Onsite: some

Description:
Magnify.net is expanding its Perl posse. 

You will work closely with Magnify's core team to design and implement
features, solutions and deploy them to our live service. 

This is an outstanding opportunity for the fearless Perl professional to
join an industry that is totally happening, flexible working conditions,
and the chance to join a team that is building something really unique
while having great times doing so. 
Terms: This is a permanent, full-time position will initially be filled on
an independent contractor basis, After a few months of contracting,
successful hires will be given an opportunity to move to a salary basis
with benefits and options. 

Setting: We are based at 27th in Manhattan, although some of the work can
be done off-site, periodical participation of on-site development meeting
will be require, so the candidate will have to be within a commutable
range. 

Required skills:
* Significant knowledge of and experience in Perl programming. (Exposure to
standard Perl idioms, the ability to create your own class hierarchies, and
familiarity with CPAN are required.) 

* Prior experience in server-side web application development. (You should
have worked with multiple page templating systems, session data storage,
relational databases, caching, and inter-process communication.) 

* Understanding of professional software development processes. (Including
familiarity with the cycles of requirements definition, issue tracking,
version control, automated testing, deployment and maintenance.) 

* Clear and articulate communication, both written and spoken. (Our team
collaborates extensively by email, IM, and phone, and you will need to be
able to read specs and write documentation)

Desired skills:
* Web service operation, scaling, and fault-tolerance using Linux, Apache,
MySQL, and Perl. 

* Our server-side tools include mod_perl, HTML::Mason, 
DBIx::SQLEngine, Cache::Memcached, and other modules from CPAN. 

* User interfaces are constructed in HTML with CSS and JavaScript (using
Prototype and Scriptaculous for Ajax and client-side effects),RSS feeds,
XML APIs, and client-side Flash widgets. 

* Project support tools including RT, SVN, and automated web testing.
Contact information: Contact us by email at yoav (at) Magnify.net with the
following 
information: 

* Please attach or link to your resume or portfolio, in HTML, PDF, or plain
text format. 

* If you've released modules on CPAN, are a poster on Perl Monks, or have a
stash of sample code somewhere on your web site, please include a link to
the relevant pages. 

* If you have an established contracting rate or a target salary range,
please pass that along. 

* Include your phone number and a good time to call, so 
that we can follow-up with you in more detail.

Contact information at:
http://jobs.perl.org/job/5351#contact