#BENEFIT: Great base salary, simple as that
#ARRANGEMENT: Permanent; Direct-hire by Client; Work from home; Mon to Fri; Mid shift
#CLIENT: Operating the market leading enterprise technology publishing brands, The Register, Next Platform, Blocks and Files and Devclass. These publishing brands provide audiences with unique news and stimulating perspectives on enterprise technology that matters today and into the future.
#POSITION: Perl Developer
#SYNOPSIS: You will manage the full life-cycle of software projects from small to large. This will include consultation with the business, and the design, development, and testing of code. There will be a mix of new projects, refactoring of legacy code, and bug fixing. Most of your work will be with our back-end Perl code that runs on our Debian servers, but you should not be afraid to get your hands dirty with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. We have nascent plans to start developing in Rust, too, so any experience with Rust will be a bonus.
#ROLE CONTEXT
- As our readership grows and revenue streams change, there is a steady flow of work. You will ensure that our website remains performant and that our journalists have the tools they need. We need your help in keeping the business profitable whilst ensuring that we can provide great free content to our readers.
- The ideal candidate will be able to do more than just tick boxes on a requirements list. We are a small team and we wear many hats; the right candidate will be knowledgeable, adaptable, and eager to learn.
- Our tech team is small, distributed, focused, and has autonomy. You need to produce great work without being enticed by a carrot or threatened by a stick. We don’t always use the latest and greatest, and we don’t always “just put it in the cloud”. We are not averse to either, but if you’re looking to fill your CV with trendy buzzwords, look elsewhere.
- Broadly put, we favour open source. We use Debian, Apache, Nginx, Exim, Redis, MySQL/MariaDB and PostgreSQL in our stack. We often write our own tools using Perl, Bash, HTML, CSS, JS. We rely on Git for process and revision control.
- You will need to be comfortable communicating with the wider team and the business via email, phone, instant messaging, and online document tools such as Google Docs or MediaWiki.
#IDEAL CANDIDATE
- Good communication and listening skills.
- Excellent written and verbal English.
- Excellent reading comprehension and attention to detail.
- Experience writing high quality Perl.
- Experience writing valid HTML, JavaScript, and CSS.
- Experience with SQL and ORMs such as DBIx::Class.
- Great Linux experience (we use Debian stable).
- Excellent knowledge of SSH, bash & sh, pipes, common UNIX tools, and the UNIX way.
- Good familiarity with version control software such as Git.
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