Lead Back-End Perl
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