Join Us: Perl Developer

The Multimap Product Development team creates and maintains a number of software products for our customers, and for internal use. We are currently looking for a software engineer who has strong Perl coding skills to develop enhancements to our current B2B products, such as our industry-leading Storefinder service; create new products; and document these products and enhancements. The successful candidate will be a team player with good communication, writing skills and problem-solving skills, and be quick to learn about new technologies.

The role involves:

• Designing and implementing products and product enhancements
• Software bug fixes
• Participating in, and assisting with the creation of, development department processes such as software release, code review, architecture and design, and unit testing
• Creating and maintaining product development technical documentation.

Candidate Requirements:

• Thorough understanding of standard software engineering and design principles
• Familiarity with standard software engineering processes
• Experience with software configuration management and a sound understanding of the benefits
• Strong Perl coding ability (procedural Perl and OO Perl)
• Familiar with the Perl debugger and CPAN
• MySQL database experience (ideally Oracle as well)
• Experience developing high-performance software under Linux
• Good at problem solving, having a methodical and thorough approach to work
• Good inter-personal, team working and written communication
• Experience with collaboration systems such as TWiki (or similar such as Lotus Notes)
• Familiar with HTML, XML, XSLT, Schemas, DTDs, Web Services, SOAP and WSDL
• Apache web server configuration and maintenance
• Excellent track record of meeting project deadlines

Desirable:

• Other European languages.

Interested candidates should email a CV to recruitment@multimap.com, or post a CV to to Perl Developer Position, Multimap.com, 165 Fleet Street, London EC4A 2DY.

No agencies, please.