A little bit about us

We are an ambitious company founded in 1996 and listed on the London Stock Exchange (CNIC), which is growing quickly through acquisition. We live and breathe our values and are committed to the growth of our business that we achieve through the growth and development of our people. We are successful because we recognise that our people are at the core of everything we do. Our mission is to enable the global economy to achieve its online aspirations.

What we do

As the developer and operator of software platforms, we provide web presence services to customers in over 180 countries. We are a leading provider of tools required to create websites, use email, and secure business online. Headquartered in London, the Group generates revenue and income from the worldwide sale of internet domain names and hosting on an annual subscription basis. CentralNic is also currently expanding its monetisation offering to acquire traffic and optimise online marketing activities. To learn more about the company, please go to our website www.centralnic.com.

The Role
We are looking for an experienced Perl software engineer with some Linux and/or FreeBSD server administration experience. As our Software & System Engineer at CentralNic, you will gain exposure working with a variety of internet and development tech, web services, distributed and high availability services, and a future career path in a growing tech company.

This role will be part of the team responsible for the iwantmyname retail DNS brand, part of CentralNic Group. The team works entirely remotely, for customers all over the world using Agile processes and modern development and engineering practice, including unit testing and code review.

This role will ideally be based in the UK or EU in a distributed and remote working team. You will be working within a multi-skilled team on troubleshooting software and system problems Developing new features and bug fixing Perl web applications and backend systems.

Key outcomes of the role

• Work with the customer support team to respond to issues and questions raised by customers.
• Implementing new microservices, migrating legacy systems to cloud and shared services working with other teams at CentralNic and external partners.
• Provision of On-Call support for the brand software applications and services on a paid rota basis

Experience and skills that will help you succeed

• Have excellent knowledge and proven experience with Modern Object Oriented Perl, but also confident and experienced working with legacy Perl.
• Be familiar with Object-Oriented Programming and MVC in Perl and frameworks such as Catalyst, Mojolicious, Moose and DBIx::Class
• Bring basic knowledge in the administration of Linux/Unix standard services (Linux, Freebsd, haproxy, nginx, Postgres, Couchdb, firewalls, ssh keys)
• Bring basic knowledge and some experience in scripting with Bash and similar shells Know how to debug internet-related issues that occur in a distributed application and related Internet services such as DNS, and email
• Confident working with a high availability cluster of mixed Linux and Freebsd servers, and staging environment and development environments
• Have strong experience in unit testing both new and legacy Perl code
• Confident enough with a variety of technology to learn to use and replace legacy applications written in erlang Be curious, research, and ask questions
• Be working with the rest of the team in collaboration, and make sure you track your activity in Jira to ensure visibility
• Demonstrate excellent communication skills, both oral and in writing in English
• Be a creative thinker, always thinking “how can we” Experience and skills that will help you succeed
• Experience in the tech industry, particularly ISP or retail DNS sectors
• Demonstrable knowledge/experience of both NoSQL and relational database administration
• Familiarity with message and job queues, such as RabbitMQ
• Experience with unit and integration testing with Perl Experience with unusual software stacks such as Erlang & Elixir or KyotoTycoon

What’s in it for you?

There are many reasons to come on board our team of talented professionals, but here are just a few…

• We are collaborative, fair, consciously inclusive, and flexible
• We trust, value, and support our people to make the difference
• We believe that diversity of thought and experience provides the platform for innovation and creativity
• We invest in the development of our people to drive our ambitions forward
• We offer a range of benefits (including your choice of tech) and a competitive package
• We offer a great work environment in an internationally successful enterprise in the online services industry

The Process

Our process will consist of an initial phone screen conversation over video via Google Meet or by phone with a member of our People team to make sure your expectations of the role are aligned with the business needs. There will then be the first round which will be a competency-based interview with the Hiring Manager and a member of the team, followed by a task and a member of the team.

We aim to keep you informed throughout the process so we will be communicative and transparent throughout (which also happens to be one of our company values)! ☺

Location

The role will be remote but we embrace flexible working and are happy to discuss suitable arrangements that will work for everyone.

If you need assistance completing an application for a position with us, please reach out to our Recruiting Team at talent@centralnic.com