Senior Perl Developer, Permanent, West London, £35,000 – £50,000 DOE

An exciting opportunity has presented itself at a leading web based services company based in West London, for a Senior Perl Developer.

THE POSITION:

As the Senior Perl Developer reporting to the Head of Development, the purpose of your position is to build and develop the company’s platform and associated systems as a member of the Development Team.

Your responsibilities will include:

· To work with the Development Team and other departments across project and the maintenance life cycles including:
- brainstorming and feasibility;
- requirements gathering and specification;
- deadline estimation and project management;
- unit testing and UAT.

· To deliver high quality software with appropriate test coverage and documentation.

· To be responsible for successful delivery of their software projects.

· To mentor other developers.

· To assist in maintaining the stability and suitability of the software platform for the business.

· To maintain design and coding skills in line with industrial best practices.

· Interacting with company employees at various levels

· Liaising with external contacts such as suppliers or clients as required.

THE PERSON:

Suitable candidates will be self-driven, results-oriented with a positive outlook, and possess a strong attention to details with a clear focus on high quality of delivery. You will need to be an organised forward planner, with the ability to critically assesses your own performance.

To be considered for the position, you will ideally possess a degree in computer science or equivalent, be based within commutable radius of West London, and you must have experience of designing and maintaining large or complex systems using:
- OO Perl
- Linux
- MySQL
- Apache with mod_perl
- AJAX
Source control (such as CVS or Subversion).
Database design and query optimisation.
Unit testing.

Skills in the following areas would be desirable:
Java
Solr/Lucene or search algorithms.
Test driven development
Profiling
Experience with large data sets.

Candidates with a distinct advantage will be those with a proven record of developing web services delivering multi-million pages per month, demonstrating knowledge of the special architecture considerations to deliver scalable sites.

THE COMPANY:

This West London company, who are a division of a much larger and highly respected PLC, is a leading web services organisation who’s products you are likely to have used yourself. They are already very well known in their specialist market sectors, and are continually growing and developing their brands further.

To be considered for this position, send your CV to tomgrange@abrs.com.

NOTE: Applicants MUST currently be based in commutable distance from West London, and have the appropriate Visa if not an EU Citizen. This position is not available for remote work and is not open to outsourcing companies.