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Perl Developer
Photobird.com, the easy way to share your photos, is looking for a Perl developer and server administrator who is very successful at completing high-quality projects. The developer must be experienced, professional, innovative, customer-focused, responsible, and dependable to join our small, yet very effective team.
We have a lot of unique ideas and plans for the site, and we need some extra development help. The system architecture and foundation of our site is solidly in place, but it's evolving and needs some tweaking and improvements. We are looking to add innovative, unique features to the site to make the site even easier, more efficient, and more attractive to customers and visitors. The simple, customer-facing design of these new features is complete, but the back-end development needs to be created to make these features work. To be consistent with the existing site, the new features must be compatible with modern browsers on Windows, Macintosh, and Linux.
While this is a freelance, project-based position to start, we are looking to build a long-term relationship with the right person and hope to turn the position into a full-time position in the future. Although we prefer that you are located in the San Francisco Bay Area, our highest priority is that you communicate exceptionally well and can complete projects well and on-time. Photobird.com has been developed with everyone in remote locations. We are very adept at using bugzilla and e-mail for regular communication, along with phone calls when necessary, and we expect the same from you.
Responsibilities:
- Work closely in a small team to develop the site with a strong focus on the site's customers and visitors
- Develop top priority features to increase revenue and visitor traffic
- Engineer the site with easy-to-update code, ensuring browser speed, compatibility, and room for growth
- Participate in the testing phase of the site, making adjustments to the code and site design as necessary
- Collaborate with the team to launch new features and enhancements on at least a monthly basis
Requirements:
- 3 or more years hands-on experience developing websites with Perl
- Experience developing websites and administering servers on popular flavors of Unix, with Apache and PostgreSQL
- Very reliable, responsible, and can effectively manage his/her own time
- Knows how to prioritize to meet the needs of customers and the business
- Strong ability to architect solid solutions for high performance, tight security, flexibility, and long-term use
- Strong ability to develop and debug light-weight, fast-loading HTML and CSS code
- Takes pride in well-designed, efficient, effective, economical, structured code
- Passion for developing robust, cutting-edge, innovative web sites that turn heads, generate excitement, and attract millions of monthly visitors
- Excellent, effective written and verbal communication skills
- Solid problem solving and project management skills
- Ability and desire to learn quickly
- Ability and desire to make things right, the way they should be, to achieve our goals
- Excellent attention to quality and detail
- Ability to focus on, relate to, and respond appropriately to customer issues and bugs
- Ability to perform well in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment
Ideal:
- Bachelor's degree
- Significant experience developing, maintaining, and managing systems for high-traffic websites
- Experience designing, implementing, and managing multiple server architectures, including load balancing, mirroring, high uptime percentage, and performance optimization
- Experience with Javascript, JSP, "Ajax", XML, SSL, RSS, Flash, Java, and other programming languages
- Open source contributions
- Experience processing credit cards and other financial transactions
- Experience with digital cameras
- Interest in photography
- International experience / influence
- Located in the San Francisco Bay Area
If you are interested, please send us your resume either as text or preferably as a link. Also, please answer the following questions in brief (at most, a few sentences to a paragraph for each):
1. What do you like about Photobird.com? What could be improved?
2. What is "Ajax"? Why can it be useful?
3. How does one engineer a website to prevent the "slashdot effect" or a "slashdotting"?
4. Instead of using RAID to avoid data loss, how is Google rumored to have configured their Gmail servers?
5. List some of Photobird's competitors.
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