Pentasia
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About the Company
A payments company, operates a suite of custom-built tools and APIs supporting complex ecommerce workflows. With multiple data centers across North America and Europe, their infrastructure is built for resilience, scale, and high availability.
About the Role
The Perl Developer will join a distributed engineering team focused on the delivery and maintenance of mission-critical backend services. This fully remote position is open within Europe (preferred within ±3 hours CET timezone) on a B2B contract basis. The role is full-time (40 hours/week, Monday to Friday) with a salary range of €50,000 to €55,000 gross/year and paid holidays.
Key Responsibilities
- Maintain, refactor, and expand existing Perl-based services across various production environments
- Collaborate with team leads and QA to deliver bug fixes, performance improvements, and feature upgrades
- Document architectural changes, update technical guides, and maintain codebase hygiene
- Build internal tools for infrastructure maintenance and troubleshooting
- Actively contribute to the reliability and continuity of platform operations across global nodes
- Participate in team planning sessions to estimate tasks, scope technical requirements, and prioritize deliverables
Required Skills
- 3+ years of professional experience in object-oriented Perl development
- Proficiency in Linux environments with strong command-line tooling (especially VI or Vim)
- Familiarity with CGI, CPAN, and modern Perl frameworks such as DBI, PSGI, or Plack
- Strong understanding of Git-based workflows and version control principles
- Hands-on experience with relational databases (MySQL preferred) and ORM practices
- Solid knowledge of unit testing, debugging, and performance profiling
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with containerized environments (Docker)
- Continuous integration tools (e.g., Jenkins)
- Experience with Bitbucket or other Git-based platforms
- Familiarity with IDEs such as VS Code, NetBeans, Eclipse, or IntelliJ