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Online URL for this job: http://jobs.perl.org/job/7424
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Posted: November 29, 2007
Job title:
Perl/JavaScript Developer - for a fast growing financial media & technology
company
Company name: Digital Look
Internal ID: 07/JD/DL
Location: United Kingdom, London, UK
Pay rate: £45,000-60,000
Travel: 0-25%
Terms of employment: Salaried employee
Hours: Full time
Onsite: yes
Description:
Digital Look is a leading financial information and news service, providing
a comprehensive suite of stock market & personal finance data, tools and
education to clients.
Based in central London, we are a well established and fast growing
financial media and technology company growing at more than 50% per year.
This represents a significant opportunity for candidates to develop their
roles and career rapidly.
Background to & purpose of role: To support and lead all aspects of web
development.
Key responsibilities:
? Lead the development team to deliver industry standard, high availability
and scalable solutions capable of handling large amounts of data
? Encourage and enforce, by example, good coding practices for developing
large dynamic websites meeting high quality standards
? Take a hands-on approach to code, design & architecture, code reviews,
test driven development, documentation in order to ensure performance,
quality and productivity of the team
? Liaise with business and management to understand requirements and
provide relevant solutions, by evaluating existing commercial / in-house
software or options to develop new solutions from scratch
? Work with other members from other teams to understand the impact of
requirements and solutions proposed on their respective systems
? Keep abreast of the relevant technology developments in the industry and
encourage team members to adopt them
? Work with management and the team for allocating tasks and meeting
project deadlines
? Work with the Infrastructure Team to support changes to the production
environment as required, including membership of the early/late/24x7 rota?s
as appropriate
? Communicate status clearly, both written and verbal, and liaise with
internal and external stakeholders as necessary to ensure the solution
meets their needs
? Work closely with the business and where required project managers, to
help create and deliver a successful project and resource plan
? Identify training and development needs for team members
Required skills:
? Good experience of leading team software development teams
? Good experience in a LAMP development environment and have proven skills
in all related technologies (Linux/Perl/Apache/MySQL and HTML)
? Experience using XHTML, CSS and JavaScript including issues surrounding
cross browser compatibility and accessibility
? Understanding of code release procedures, CVS or SVN and unit testing
? Knowledge and use of CPAN libraries
? Highly motivated, with the ability to manage and deliver projects to a
high level of quality, within agreed timescales
Desired skills:
? Experience with JQuery and JSON or other JavaScript libraries
? Experience with agile (SCRUM) development methodologies
URL for more information: http://www.digitallook.com/
Contact information at:
http://jobs.perl.org/job/7424#contact
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