Perl Developer for 1 Billion Pound Fintech Firm up to 80k

Job Description

Perl Developer required for a high profile project for one of the most innovative fintech companies in the personal and business foreign exchange industry. This is an opportunity for a passionate and experienced Perl Developer to join a 40 person technology team in London (there is also a 10 person team up in the north of England) and help improve high profile Foreign Exchange products. The environment offers the best of both worlds - a high energy startup culture with a test and learn mentality, but with the stability and opportunity for growth that comes from being a highly profitable company with a turnover of more than £1 billion!

The existing platforms have been growing organically alongside the business over the last ten years and are now being used by over 7000 customers globally and are in need of cutting edge changes. The Perl Developer will join one of the engineering teams in a fun, fast-moving, hardworking and exceptionally supportive team and gain experience in a profitable industry disrupter. This project is just the beginning, the company have acquired a banking licence in order to bring a groundbreaking new product to market. Simultaneously, they are re-platforming the core platform onto a modern application stack (PostgreSQL, Express, React, Node.js) and expanding the engineering capabilities rapidly, and this role is not only critical to their success but offers the ability to cross-skill into Node.js if you want to!

Please apply for the role if you are a Perl Developer with commercial experience with most of the technologies/tools/practices below (although they are just a starting point, you will be empowered to recommend changes):

• Catalyst, DBIx::Class, Moose, Dancer, Mojolicious
• Integrating with third party APIs and understand RESTful API principles
• Version control systems, we use github
• CI tools, e.g. Jenkins, CircleCI
• AWS
• Agile practices.
• Software engineering practices like BDD, TDD, Pair Programming etc.
• Learning from and passing knowledge to like-minded and talented colleagues. 

What is on offer:

• A competitive salary, benchmarked against a peer group of the most innovative fintech companies in London
• 25 days holiday per year + your birthday off!
• Tons of opportunities for progression and development
• Company laptop & tech equipment of your choice
• Great location next to the Thames (Cannon Street/Bank)
• Free onsite Nuffield Health gym & pool
• A flexible workplace - they like to say yes!
• Opportunity to manage your own team

Ref: RA180 | Published: 16th Jan 2019