Shoebuy.com, Inc,
Shoebuy.com, Inc., located in the Boston Financial District, seeks a 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.
Shoebuy.com (http://www.askforjob.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/810ed_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.
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 or equivalent experience.
- 1+ yrs. developing in a scripting language (Perl, Ruby, Python, PHP, etc.) in a UNIX environment.
- 1+ years experience with other languages (C/C++, Java, C#, etc)
- 1+ yrs. SQL experience (Oracle 8+ preferred) including efficient query writing, prepared statements, and database access with DBD/DBI or similar API.
- Familiarity with a UNIX shell environment.
- Experience with HTML 4.0/XHTML 1.0, CSS 2.1+, DHTML, and JavaScript.
- Experience with version control software including CVS, Subversion, Perforce, or Git.
- Strongly curious, compulsive, self-motivated, enjoys a challenge, perfectionist tendencies with ability to compromise to practical realities.
- Possess the ability to manage time, meet sensitive deadlines, and assume ownership of responsibilities.
Recommended:
- Knowledge of Web Services technologies (XML-RPC, SOAP, WSDL, REST).
- Experience with writing web applications.
- Experience with AJAX and Web 2.0 technologies.
Interested? To apply, please send a resume and cover letter to marketing@shoebuy.com.