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Work at Home Perl Software Engineer

Nextrials has an immediate opening for a highly-skilled, enthusiastic, creative, enterprise web application developer who wants to join a motivated, geographically dispersed, highly-productive Agile team in a successful San Francisco Bay Area technology company.

Our award-winning software product, Prism, is a web application for managing clinical research data. Prism is currently written using LAMP technologies. You will have the opportunity to shape the next generation of Prism, using whatever technology stack is most appropriate. You will also work on our suite of tools, written in Flex with heavy use of XML technologies including XQuery and XSLT. The right candidate is experienced in LAMP and working with heterogeneous technologies. For details on our company and product, see our website at http://www.nextrials.com.

Required skills:  At least 5 years working as a professional developer in a collaborative team environment

Experience with enterprise architecture design

Experience with OO design and development and domain driven development

Experience building multi-tiered web applications

Object-oriented Perl

Knowledge of Web 2.0 technologies, RIA, SOA, and SAAS

Knowledge of Web 2.0 technologies, RIA and SOA

Strong XML experience (DOM, Schema, XQuery, XSLT)

Enthusiasm, the ability to learn quickly

Desired skills:  Fluency in more than one object-oriented programming languages

Proficiency writing object-oriented Javascript

Experience with Java development

Experienced in Flex application and UI development

Experience with relational/XML databases and data modeling

Test-driven development and unit testing

Experience improving scalability and performance of web applications

Experience working in an Agile environment, especially with a dispersed team

Knowledge of the EDC, eHealth, eClinical, or eResearch spaces.

Employer Posted:Sunday, November 16, 2008