TravelPod ( A TripAdvisor/Expedia company ) is looking for a talented Web Engineer with LAMP (Perl) experience eager to work on fast growing and exciting travel websites and social networking apps ( ie: Facebook / MySpace / Friendster / OpenSocial / etc ).
As a Web Engineer, your main responsibility will be developing innovative consumer travel web apps like TravelPod.com. You’ll also preferably be a jack of all trades and be able to work on other projects ranging from design to infrastructure. Ideally, you’ve run your own website / business as a passion on the side or full time for years and enjoy working in many area of technology and being challenged by the fast passed changes of the Web.
You'll also be responsible for working with a team to carry out the maintenance of the software to ensure that our sites are always available to our large community of travelers.
We are looking for entrepreneurial developers who have shown leadership, creativity and expertise in participating with the creation of new web applications from concept to deployment in a fast-moving company environment.
You will be working with a small but passionate team at TravelPod & TripAdvisor. TravelPod is a fun and exciting place to work at and we’re looking for someone to share their energy with us.
In this role you can look forward to…
Taking a leadership role in the design and the development of various consumer travel Web projects for TravelPod.com and related web sites.
Working on cutting edge applications for Facebook, OpenSocial, Mobile, and other platforms
Promoting best practices and ensuring a standard of code.
Optimizing the code for performance and stability.
Working with the team to support TravelPod web applications.
Participating in quality assurance testing.
What you can bring to the team…
A minimum of 10 years of experience with web development.
A minimum of 5 years working with Perl.
A minimum of 5 years experience with Linux, Apache and MySql (LAMP).
Experience developing on Facebook and other social networks is a plus.
UI Design experience is a definite plus.
Good knowledge of web related programming and web security.
Experience working on large, high traffic sites will be considered assets.
Experience working with Ajax and other leading edge web technologies is a plus.
A passion for writing quality code.
An ability to work well in a fast moving and highly collaborative team environment.
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