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Software Engineer/Perl Programmer

Posted:	April 25, 2008
Company name:	KnowledgePlex Inc.
Location:	CA, San Jose
Travel:	0-25%
Poster represents:	an employer
Terms of employment:	Salaried employee
Length of employment:	Permanent
Hours:	Full time
Description:	KnowledgePlex, Inc. is seeking experienced Perl programmers for front-end (web) and back-end (systems) development of multiple co-brandable web products. We are a small non-profit, located in San Jose, CA, with a growing engineering team, tackling challenges such as web scraping, news aggregation, automated semantic analysis and classification, multi-sourced data assimilation and warehousing, geospatial analysis, real-time multi-layer mapping, and statistics. We prefer developers who are comfortable with Unix-like operating systems, revision control systems (Subversion), bug/task ticketing systems (Trac), Model-View-Controller (MVC) design patterns, agile development methods, and short release cycles.
Required skills:	* Experience with Perl, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript required. * Affinity for embracing and exploiting open-source projects to reduce development time imperative. * Experience with SQL (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and Perl DBI.
Desired skills:	* Experience with co-branding and templating. * Familiarity with HTML::Mason, Catalyst, Class::DBI, and/or Rose::DB::Object a big plus. * Familiarity with prototype.js also a plus. * Familiarity with web performance optimization and caching strategies also useful. * Basic image editing skills and design sense also useful.
URL for more information:	http://www.dataplace.org/
Contact information:	We offer competitive salaries, good benefits, paid vacations, and a casual, collaborative work environment. Required skills: Contact info by email: careers@knowledgeplex.org with your cover letter and attached resume (PDF, HTML, or plain-text). You are also encouraged to submit 100-200 lines of Perl code representative of your current skill level, or pointers to public publications of same (CPAN, open-source projects, etc.).

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