[LA.pm] Software Engineer (Perl) Position at ReachLocal (Woodland Hills, CA)

[Jonathan Brown]

Hello Perl Mongers, 

ReachLocal has an opening on our development team for a talented Perl
Software Engineer.  Please see the job description below or at
http://www.reachlocal.com/register/careers.php?action=view_career&id=24.

Thanks,

Jonathan Brown
Lead Software Engineer
ReachLocal, Inc.

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Job Title: Software Engineer
Job Category: Technology 
Location: Woodland Hills, California 
Full/ Part Time: Full Time 
Requisition #: 00009 
Website: http://www.reachlocal.com 
Reply To: devjobs at reachlocal.com 

ReachLocal, Inc. - is looking for a motivated Software Engineer to join its
growing software development team. The ideal candidate must work well in
teams and on individual basis. Your day to day activities will include-
developing, maintaining, testing, supporting, and documenting our external
partner integration software.  You will be required to follow the direction
of your Group Lead in development of new requirements, bug fixes, code
refactoring and other maintenance.  You will be required to work on
integration projects that use various APIs and keep up with updates to the
APIs.  You will be required to develop backend functions and libraries that
house certain business logic. 

Job Requirements 
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience 
3+ yrs Perl Development experience   
3+ yrs writing SQL queries on MySQL database 
Experience integrating with 3rd party APIs (Web Service or other) 
Experience with Software Design Patterns, OOP 
Experience with Web-based software development (mod_perl or other) 
2+ yrs experience with Unix-Based operating system  
Excellent communication, organizational, analytical and problem solving
skills.  
 
Preferred Requirements 
Experience working with search engine marketing APIs such as the Google
Adwords API or the Yahoo! API 
Experience with SOAP Web Services  
Familiarity with the search engine advertising industry  
Experience with PHP or other server-side scripting language 
Experience with HTML, XHTML, JavaScript, CSS

Other Requirements 
Gives and welcomes feedback; Contributes to building a positive team spirit;
Puts success of team above own interests; Supports everyone's efforts to
succeed, Enthusiasm for and discipline in building something from the ground
up, comfortable with working in an unstructured, fast-paced, start-up
environment                                             

**About the Company** 
ReachLocal, Inc. is a leading provider of local online marketing solutions
for small-and medium- sized business. The Company's mission is to become the
digital advertising agency of record for these companies, delivering the
same broad set of online marketing functions currently only afforded to
large corporations on a national basis. ReachLocal pioneered the local
search engine marketing industry by bringing together a patent-pending
technology with a strong partnership model and proprietary national sales
force. The result is a simple, scalable and affordable platform local
businesses need to create, maintain, track and analyze their Internet search
advertising campaigns. ReachLocal makes available to advertisers 98 percent
of the search engine landscape through partnerships with Google, Yahoo!,
MSN, Superpages.com, and other. Founded in 2004, ReachLocal is privately
held corporation. ReachLocal, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer located
in Woodland Hills, CA.