Responsibilities:

• Develop a long term strategy for our custom mediation platform with a focus on ease of maintenance and processing speed.
• Design and support existing features and services in Perl for our extremely high-volume application.
• Work closely with our capacity and operations teams to help ensure the scalability and reliability of the application.
• Troubleshoot application issues as they arise, providing possible solutions along with risk assessment as appropriate.
• Collaborate with and provide technical guidance for other technology groups as it pertains to our application.
• Work closely with our product team to help define new feature specifications.
• Conduct and participate in design and code reviews.
• Provide technical insight with emerging technologies and methodologies to increase product capabilities.  

Qualifications:

• BS in Computer Science or higher.
• 5 years professional development experience, with 3+ years’ experience LAMP development with Perl.
• Extensive database design and programming skills (Postgres a plus).
• Experience in loading large volume of XML data into a database.
• Experience with Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1) a plus.
• Practical working knowledge of at least 1 other language (Java preferred).
• Thorough understanding and practical application of OO concepts and design patterns.
• Expert level debugging and profiling skills, both at the application and systems level.
• Experience with CVS, Subversion or other revision control system.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, with ability to explain technical design, concepts and risks to both developers and non-developers alike.
• Proven track record of delivering high impact, complex projects on time with an extremely low defect rate.
• Knowledge of telecommunications networks (wireless) a plus.
• Working familiarity with front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, Javascript).
• Excellent time management and prioritization skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work well with others.