At CV-Library, we have a simple vision: to help the world to work and we are looking for exceptional and talented people to help us realise this vision in both UK and overseas markets.
We are in a period of accelerated growth, following a year of key strategic acquisitions and significant investment across all parts of the business from Tech and Data to People and HR, there's never been a more exciting time to join us or a better place to grow your career!
The Role
We are looking for a Senior Perl Engineer to join our team. The ideal candidate will have experience in developing and maintaining software applications, as well as experience with agile methodologies. The candidate should be able to work independently and as part of a team and be able to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. If you are a passionate software engineer, we want to hear from you!
What your day will look like:
* Performs constructive design and code reviews while mentoring junior developers
* Collaborate with Product to ensure product roadmap items are delivered on time
* Contribute to requirement analysis, design, code and testing of software components using agile software development processes
* Frequent interaction with Product, Architecture, Data and Operations teams
* Enable rapid feature development without cutting quality
* Create and maintain documentation for live ops, debugging and general knowledge
Requirements
Essential
* Good communication and coaching/mentoring skills
* Must be ambitious and be willing to take ownership of what you work on
* Good problem-solving and organisation skill set
* Self-motivated and a willingness to get stuck in
* Understands the importance, the purpose and the implementation of testing
* Experience of supporting, modifying and maintaining systems
* An ability to effectively understand and translate product and business requirements into technical solutions
Desirable
* 5+ years of full-time software engineering experience
* Experience with version control systems, preferably git
* Experience with RESTful services integration and development
* Experience working with a major cloud platform preferred (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure)
* Experience delivering applications using CI/CD tools following best practices (Github Actions, Helm, Jenkins, ArgoCD etc.)
Skills
Essential
* Good experience with Modern Perl
* Good experience working with Dancer2 or another MVC framework
* Good experience with MySQL or another relational database
* Good knowledge of testing frameworks
Desirable
* Knowledge of Go, Python or Rust, or willingness to learn
* Knowledge of EDA or Messaging Architectures (e.g. Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ)
Benefits
We are actively committed to promoting a fully diverse and inclusive workforce and we welcome applications for this role from all candidates who meet the key requirements. Please do not hesitate to get in touch should you require any reasonable adjustments to assist with your application