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<p class="MsoNormal">PERL DEVELOPER AT ADZUNA<br>
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Adzuna are looking to recruit an experienced, professional perl developer to
support the ongoing development of our classifieds search engine. This is a great opportunity to join a
rapidly-growing early stage startup where you can make a difference.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">You will need good communication skills and attention to
detail as well as strong technical ability. You will also need to understand
the importance of building structured code that is fast, scalable, reliable and
robust. As part of a small but talented
team you need to thrive working independently and in a fast-moving,
low-structure environment.</p>
<p>The kind of projects you will be working on include new search features and relevancy algorithms,
partner xml feed integrations, APIs and ‘big data’ analysis, administrative
tools and a variety of product features
and enhancements. Our systems have been with scalability in mind, so the
successful candidate must demonstrate experience and ability to write scalable
code to be run in distributed environments.</p>
<p><b>Required skills</b></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:14pt;vertical-align:baseline">Very good Object-Oriented
Perl</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline">Apache, fastcgi</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline">mysql</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline">SOLR or other search engine</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline">multi-box/multi-environment system configuration</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline">Strong attention to detail</li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:14.0pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="color:red"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Useful extra skills /
experience</b></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:14pt;vertical-align:baseline">Experience with templating
frameworks (ideally Template Toolkit)</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline">Spidering technology</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline">Catalogue / feeds management</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline">Search engine optimisation</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline">Classified ads / vertical search websites</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline">Cloud services integration</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline">Chef</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline">Machine learning / neural nets</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:14pt;vertical-align:baseline">gearman or other
distributed job-dispatching mechanisms</li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This is a full-time role at a market competitive salary (45k ish) plus stock options - potentially very lucrative.</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Location is at our office in Clapham. Flexibility can be discussed.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">To apply, please send your CV and covering email to jobs at
<a href="http://adzuna.com">adzuna.com</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>About Adzuna</b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Adzuna is a search engine for classified ads used by over 2
million visitors per month which makes it easier to find the right job, house
or car for you. We search thousands of websites so you don't have to and
bring together millions of ads so you can find them all in one place. We
add powerful search, insightful market data and social connections, so you can
find your perfect job with a little help from your friends.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Adzuna’s data
also powers the Number 10 Dashboard, used by the Prime Minister and senior officials
to keep track of economic growth on a daily basis.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br>
Adzuna was founded by Andrew Hunter and Doug Monro, formerly of eBay, Gumtree,
Qype and Zoopla and is backed by leading Venture Capital firms Passion Capital,
The Accelerator Group and Index Ventures.
Adzuna was originally launched in the UK in 2011 and now operates in 6
countries from our offices in Clapham, south west London.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">You can read more here: <a href="http://www.adzuna.co.uk/about-us.html">http://www.adzuna.co.uk/about-us.html</a></p></div>