Lead Back-End Perl

Posted Aug 19

Glopal connects millions of buyers and merchants around the world to unlock cross-border trade. Glopal provides advanced international marketing solutions for ecommerce retailers and brands seeking to grow their businesses' globally. Using a suite of automated localization tools, merchants can quickly launch their stores on international markets and promote them to new audiences with Google Shopping Ads, with a hosted international checkout solution allowing buyers to complete orders with local shipping & payment methods.

We are a fast growing company that will offer you plenty of career opportunities!

  • A SaaS Solution
  • In the 5-10M EUR revenue range 
  • fast growing company (>100% YoY) 
  • Have customers in 2 regions (EU and NA)
  • Teams are remote and spread across 12 countries
  • Raised 24M to date 

We're looking for an experienced tech leader that will manage a team of developers and that will bring some expertise to the table.

What you would do

As a Perl Lead Developer, you will be part of an international team (Belgium, Canada, France, Poland, Ukraine, Russia, Serbia) that is responsible for a number of applications supporting cross-border trade and logistics. The highlight is expanding & maintaining the core Duty & Tax calculation engine that supports complex business models & consolidates many services as support.

Key Responsibilities

  • Technical leadership of a development team
  • Developing and improving the systems under his/her responsibility
  • Working with Product department and various stakeholders on setting goals, planning resources and maintaining technical vision of the product domain
  • Managing cross-team projects when necessary
  • Developing back end services and API's in Perl (Mojolicious)
  • Maintaining, enhancing and creating new solutions on our platforms
  • Implementing continuous integration and metrics to monitor the applications
  • Providing operational support of the applications in production
  • You will be required to perform occasional on call duties once every other month

Must Have

  • 8+ years of recent product development experience
  • at least 3 years experience with Perl
  • leadership skills as represented by the ability to communicate efficiently, balance various engineering trade-offs, motivate the team, contribute to the development process, all in order to deliver new features while keeping the stability of the platform 
  • experience with requirements analysis and system’s design
  • ability to work in a dynamic environment
  • excellent English language skills - both written and verbal
  • deep attention and understanding of product & business concerns
  • good problem solving skills
  • being driven and independent employee who takes responsibility for his work, from development to operational management; impact oriented work - you build it, you run it
  • Knowledge of git or other versioning systems

Nice to Have

  • experience working with Linux systems, automation tools and container services
  • frontend experience with React and native HTML/CSS/JS stack (the position is for backend developer, but occasional frontend adjustments are needed)
  • experience in SOA and message queues (like RabbitMQ)
  • knowledge of Amazon Web Services (EC2, RDS, ELB, EBS) and related GCP
  • experience with relational databases

We Offer

  • if you show interest and skill, we can offer multiple PHP/Python/JS projects in our tech stack
  • permanent position in a family minded team that operates international business
  • role in a fantastic, motivated team within an innovative and inspiring environment where independence is encouraged
  • flexible working environment that supports remote work
  • frequent training, ensuring your growth and development
  • referral program

Tech stack:

  • Perl (Mojolicious), MySQL, ELK stack, Docker/Kubernetes, GitLab pipelines