Re: [LUG] Perl development and systems engineer role

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Subject: Re: [LUG] Perl development and systems engineer role

From: Michael Everitt <michael@xxxxxxxxxx>

Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2022 21:19:46 +0000

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Hi LUG,

We're looking for some open source oriented talent to join our team at iwantmyname.

3 roles due to growth and backfilling (mostly people following their interests into specialist roles in different teams in our parent company)

Looking for 2 perl developers and a system and software engineer (also perl) to work in a remote/distributed agile team. The platform is a mix of modern perl and a curious mix legacy software including freebsd, couchdb and erlang. Upcoming projects include migrating and replacing the legacy software and moving from freebsd to dockerised containers on aws.

Full details at https://careers.centralnicgroup.com/jobs/1644905-software-system-engineer-perl-retail and https://careers.centralnicgroup.com/jobs/1644763-software-engineer-perl-retail

In case you're wondering why I'm posting here for a New Zealand brand, I'm the engineering team lead and I'm based in here in Cornwall, just outside Truro.

Cheers,

Aaron

Does it carry a 'Perl-programmer premium' .. I wouldn't ordinary touch Perl Ever Again if I could help it .. and especially OO-Perl .. there lies all sorts of horribleness, even though I never used it properly in anger...

I used to code a GUI machine interface in Perl using WxWidgets, and to be honest, would never really touch it again, it's the wrong language for the purpose on lots of levels, no matter your opinion on Perl-as-a-toolbox (and I do know a guru working in specialist data management 'up-country'!).

If there were an opportunity to migrate to a different (python? dare I say it) language, I think I'd be looking very differently at it.

On a more curious note, how do you find the 'agile working' .. I've never really seen platforms to "enable" this, but there are definitely a myriad of options available these days to do productive work across continents/timezones/etc !

Regards,
veremitz/Michael.

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