Liquidity Services, Inc. is looking for an experienced developer to join our team. Applicant will be working independently or as part of a team on various projects, and take care of all aspects of the software development life cycle from specification gathering, design, business process analysis, and implementation, to quality assurance, documentation, and ongoing support & maintenance. We primarily use Perl, MySQL, Apache, and GNU/Linux. Candidate must be a United States citizen or permanent resident, and be able to commute to our office in downtown Washington DC.

Liquidity Services, Inc. provides online surplus asset disposition marketplaces via a public auction format, and pay per click services through four subsidiaries: Liquidation.com, a b2b marketplace for private buyers and sellers; GovLiquidation.com, Department of Defense US military surplus; UKSurplus.com, Ministry of Defense military surplus; GoWholesale.com, a b2b wholesale PPC search portal.

Liquidity Services built its operations from the ground up, utilizing free software tools and technologies. Liquidity Services' long-standing, profitable startup-like environment provides an opportunity to work closely with a medium-sized team of professionals dedicated to the invention, construction and maintenance of its expanding infrastructure.

You will be joining a talented team of perl developers, sys admins, IT network admins, and project managers. We're looking for fast paced learning, contribution, imagination, and productivity. We offer collaboration, a fun workplace, an awesome group of people, and an opportunity to make a difference. Talented co-workers, health benefits, 401K, flexible hours & vacation schedules, casual & laid-back environment, occasional team outings, offsite training as needed, occasional travel, and occasional large project bonus incentives programs. 

Required skills:

• Perl, RDBMS (MySQL preferred), DBI module, CGI scripting
• Understanding of software development best practices -- Modules, Don't Repeat Yourself, Maintainable code, etc
• Ability to write scalable, high performance code, with efficient utilization of server resources
• Strong communication skills
• Experience working in a team environment

• mod_perl
• CVS, Mercurial
• HTML, CSS
• Javascript, Ajax, jQuery
• Core/CPAN modules: Template Toolkit, DBIx::Class, List::Util, List::MoreUtils, DateTime, etc
• Object oriented programming (preferably with perl)
• Other languages a plus (Java, PHP, Ruby, Python)
• Apache
• GNU/Linux