Perl Developer - API/Web - Ecommerce Giant

Perl Developer required with development background in Perl (Server Side) for web systems with knowledge of API's (ideally Restful) and knowledge of CPAN frameworks such as (Catalyst or Moose) combined with knowledge of SQL/RDBMS, and Linux is required by E-commerce giant in West London to work in challenging Agile environment on complex Back End systems for merchandising.

Required Skills & Experience:

*Server Side development in Perl
*SQL/RDBMS
*Version control systems (we use git)
*Able to investigate & trouble-shoot technical issues
*Able to rapidly and effectively context-switch
*Linux OS familiarity

Desirable Skills & Experience:

Experience of any of the following will be useful but training will be provided to the right candidate.

*Able to develop web-based user interfaces (HTML, CSS) & APIs (JSON & XML)
*Knowledge of CPAN modules and frameworks, particularly: DBI, DBIx:Class, Catalyst, Template Toolkit and Moose
*Experience building and testing high-availability applications
*AJAX & Javascript, & JS frameworks (we use jQuery)
*Agile development methodologies and practises (Scrum, Kanban, TDD)
*Developing remote services with Perl and challenges in working with SOA
*Implementing continuous delivery (ideally using Jenkins and OpenStack)
*One or more JVM based language
*Ruby (specifically using the Cucumber test framework)
Understanding of:
*Perl & Linux conventions
*Message queues (we use ActiveMQ)
*Perl testing frameworks
*Refactoring
*Apache/FCGI & Plack

This key role will be joining a dynamic Agile team working on critical systems which support a large scale E-commerce business. Its critical for this role that you have strong communication skills as well as a strong desire to pick up new skills and work in a collaborative environment.

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