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Shoebuy.com, Inc., located in the Boston Financial District, seeks a
Senior Perl Developer who will thrive on working with a focused leader
in the business-to-consumer space; has technical skills and development
experience; and will be quick, motivated, and direct in finding the
right solutions and building upon existing ones to increase the speed of
delivery already achieved.
Responsibilities:
- Work closely with project managers and the development team to
implement new features and functionality, encompassing both web-based
and backend scripts.
- Revise, refactor, and maintain existing code with an emphasis on
improving performance, security, maintainability, and modularity.
- Collaborate with user interface and graphic designers to apply
appealing and intuitive front-ends to Perl, web-based functionality.
- Aid in the creation of clear and carefully planned specifications
that address all business requirements, user interfaces, process flow,
performance, and scalability.
- Participate in all stages of the development life-cycle including
architecture, design, implementation, unit testing, release,
maintenance, and refactoring.
- Recommend and implement new open source frameworks, toolkits,
modules, development processes, standards or related material with the
ability to mentor other developers in these areas.
Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree CS/Engineering or related field.
- 4+ yrs. developing Perl-based web applications and scripts, running
in a UNIX environment.
- 3+ yrs. experience with Apache web server, Perl interoperability, and
associated communication nuances (CGI, FastCGI, mod_perl).
- 4+ yrs. SQL experience (Oracle 8+ preferred) including efficient
query writing, prepared statements, and database access with DBD/DBI.
- 2+ yrs. UNIX shell experience (Solaris preferred).
- Thorough understanding of object-oriented design concepts, and
Model-View-Controller (MVC) paradigm, and experience building reusable
modules.
- Strong understanding of HTML 4.0/XHTML 1.0, CSS 2.1+, DHTML, and
JavaScript.
- Understanding of common Internet protocols such as HTTP, FTP, and SSL.
- Experience with version control software including CVS, Subversion,
or Git.
- Proven experience as a team leader and self-starter, possessing
excellent technical and organizational skills.
- Possess the ability to manage time, meet sensitive deadlines, and
assume ownership of responsibilities.
Recommended:
- Proven experiencing designing and implementing robust, secure
e-commerce functionality such as shopping carts, session management
(login/logout), checkout, payment, etc.
- Knowledge of Web Services technologies (XML-RPC, SOAP, WSDL, REST).
- Experience with AJAX and Web 2.0 technologies.
Benefits package includes:
- 2 weeks paid vacation.
- 80% Health (our employee health care options provide a generous range
of Aetna and Blue Cross/Blue Shield HMO and PPO plans).
- 50% Dental.
- Life Insurance (1.5 x Base).
- 401(k) (w/ employer match of 50% on employee contributions up to 6%).
- Disability (STD and LTD coverage at 100% employer paid).
This is a full-time, permanent position. Telecommuting not available.
Placement will occur directly with Shoebuy and not by means of a third
party.
Shoebuy.com (http://www.shoebuy.com) already has significant presence
online; is one of the most heavily visited Internet sites in the world;
and is owned by IAC (Nasdaq: IACI), the same company that owns many of
the most successful online companies, including Ticketmaster,
LendingTree, Evite, Match.com, and Ask.com.
To apply, send resume to jobs-BPK2HUvlh3JBDgjK7y7TUQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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