From jpinkham at thinkgeek.com Fri May 3 14:52:44 2013 From: jpinkham at thinkgeek.com (Jennifer Pinkham) Date: Fri, 3 May 2013 17:52:44 -0400 Subject: [baltimorepm] Fwd: ThinkGeek.com [Fairfax, VA] looking for a Sr Perl web app developer In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Fellow Perl Mongers, We have an opening at ThinkGeek for a senior level Perl web application developer. I am the hiring manager for this position and you can contact me directly if you have specific questions. Come join us at a really fun place to work with lots of exciting coding challenges and Nerf wars! Full details are included at the bottom of the message. Here's the link to apply: http://www.thinkgeek.com/jobs#senior-perl-developer We are also interested in junior to mid level developers, and I will be posting more information as soon as the positions are official. If you attended the April 20th Baltimore Perl Workshop, you may have already met me. If you'd like to speak with me in person, I will be at the May 7th DC Perl Mongers meeting. -Jennifer -- Jennifer Pinkham Director, Development Engineering jpinkham at thinkgeek.com PAUSE: JPINKHAM ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Senior Perl Developer We're looking for a sharp and passionate software engineer to join our crack team that builds and maintains ThinkGeek's highly-successful custom e-commerce platform. Founded in 1999, ThinkGeek is a close-knit group of fun and enthusiastic people who invent the coolest geek gadgets, such as the iCade, the playable electronic guitar t-shirt, and the taun-taun sleeping bag. Much of our software is developed in-house, so projects will run a wide gamut of business areas (accounting to warehouse management, and everything in between). Development will be on an existing suite of software, so the ability to adapt to and extend an existing architecture is a must. Main job responsibilities: - Develop highly-scalable and secure web applications designed to satisfy and engage both internal and external customers. - Create and maintain a variety of technologies from AJAX based user interfaces to third-party XML business integration feeds. - Participate in requirements and specifications gathering processes. - Develop tests, predict areas of risk, and coordinate with our QA staff to achieve the best blend of error prevention and error detection possible. - Take ownership of your projects from planning to stakeholder happiness. Skills & Experience: - 5+ years professional programming experience with Perl 5. - Experience with Perl Best Practices and PerlCritic. - Experience or familiarity with the following modules: Try::Tiny, Class::Load, XML::LibXML, Test::More, Test::Exception. - Experience with creating unit tests. - 4+ years professional experience working with relational databases (SQL), MySQL a plus in a highly transactional environment. - General experience with MVC patterns, ORMs, Web Services (client/servers). - HTML and CSS skills to create templates for web. - Experience with (and troubleshooting) Javascript (jQuery specifically) for DOM manipulation and AJAX interactions. - Ability to comprehend and implement complex business requirements in an exacting manner. - Effectively able to handle multiple priorities and manage time efficiently to deliver projects of varying size. - Must have excellent communication skills both written and oral. Active listening is key as we seek to understand others? views. For bonus points: - Experience with Agile software development practices (e.g. Scrum, Lean/Kanban). - Experience with Template Toolkit. - Ability to train/mentor junior developers. - Experience developing automated functional and performance testing suites - Linux knowledge. - E-commerce experience. - Published CPAN modules. - Experience with a common Perl web framework, such as Catalyst, Dancer, or Mojolicious. * -- Jennifer Pinkham Director, Development Engineering -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sbelcher at gmail.com Tue May 21 13:48:41 2013 From: sbelcher at gmail.com (Stephen Belcher) Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 16:48:41 -0400 Subject: [baltimorepm] Interest in May Meeting? Message-ID: Hi all, I'm curious if there's any interest in having our meeting this month (I've heard there's at least a little bit). Unfortunately there hasn't been much planning *yet* as I'm not in Dawn's league, so it'd be somewhat last-minute, but if people are chomping at the bit to talk about Perl, I'd hate to disappoint. I believe our semi-usual time and place will work -- the third Thursday has passed but we can do this Thursday, 6:30 for chatting time, 7:00 for meeting. Pizza and soda, of course. So, two questions: Would you be able, willing, and likely to attend a meeting this Thursday? And, do you have anything you'd like to present* if you came? I can fill up a talk slot, probably on Perlbrew, but we should have one or two more to make it interesting; as well as a few listening ears. I'll send out another email with the final results/decision by midnight Thursday morning, or, in a little over 31 hours if you wanna get technical. Thanks, --Stephen * Perl 5.18 just came out, work's started on 5.19; if anyone's played with those, that'd be a good topic! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sbelcher at gmail.com Thu May 23 05:32:06 2013 From: sbelcher at gmail.com (Stephen Belcher) Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 08:32:06 -0400 Subject: [baltimorepm] Interest in May Meeting? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: All, As it was likely too last-minute, I didn't receive any "yes" responses, which means there will be no meeting tonight, and we'll just start planning for June, with hopefully more advance notice! Thanks, --Stephen On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Stephen Belcher wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm curious if there's any interest in having our meeting this month (I've > heard there's at least a little bit). Unfortunately there hasn't been much > planning *yet* as I'm not in Dawn's league, so it'd be somewhat > last-minute, but if people are chomping at the bit to talk about Perl, I'd > hate to disappoint. I believe our semi-usual time and place will work -- > the third Thursday has passed but we can do this Thursday, 6:30 for > chatting time, 7:00 for meeting. Pizza and soda, of course. > > So, two questions: Would you be able, willing, and likely to attend a > meeting this Thursday? And, do you have anything you'd like to present* if > you came? > > I can fill up a talk slot, probably on Perlbrew, but we should have one or > two more to make it interesting; as well as a few listening ears. I'll send > out another email with the final results/decision by midnight Thursday > morning, or, in a little over 31 hours if you wanna get technical. > > Thanks, > > --Stephen > > * Perl 5.18 just came out, work's started on 5.19; if anyone's played with > those, that'd be a good topic! > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: