Senior Software Engineer, Perl

Bloom Equity Partners

Senior Software Engineer key technical contributor on a cloud-hosted SaaS library management platform. Collaborating with a small, focused team to modernize and expand the product offering.

Posted 5/9/2026full-timeRemote • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

ApacheElasticSearchJavaScriptjQueryLinuxMariaDBMySQLNGINXPerlSQLZookeeper

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Codebase ownership — senior developer and technical area owner for the platform and ancillary projects, working alongside the Director of Engineering on architecture decisions.
Releases and deployments — working within Soutron's established release process; understanding the current manual release cycle across 8 production servers and proposing improvements toward automated, pipeline-driven deployments.
Infrastructure awareness — not directly responsible for server administration, but expected to have working knowledge of the infrastructure stack (Debian Linux, Nginx, Apache/mod_perl, MariaDB/Galera, Solr, PowerDNS, Let's Encrypt) and to proactively identify and propose improvements to existing infrastructure patterns.
Mentorship & engineering culture — share knowledge with peers, help raise the team's technical standards, and contribute to code review and engineering best practices.
Security and compliance — dependency scanning, penetration testing coordination, MFA rollout, SOC 2 readiness roadmap.
Platform modernization — progressively evolving the stack toward modern patterns (REST API layer, frontend modernization, containerization) without disrupting a live production system.

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of production Perl development; must be comfortable with mod_perl, CPAN module management, Template Toolkit, and navigating large, long-lived Perl codebases; experience modernizing or refactoring legacy Perl is a strong advantage.
3+ years of hands-on Solr experience for search and indexing; understanding of index configuration, query tuning, and cluster management via Zookeeper; Elasticsearch experience considered in addition to, not instead of, Solr.
Solid understanding of Linux-based server environments (Debian/Ubuntu, Nginx, Apache, SSH, SSL/TLS); able to read, assess, and propose improvements to infrastructure configuration.
Relational databases: MariaDB or MySQL; understanding of clustering and replication (Galera experience a plus).
Understanding of how server-rendered HTML applications work end-to-end; JavaScript (jQuery era and modern).
Proven experience working within an established Agile Scrum methodology; comfortable with sprint planning, standups, story pointing, and sprint reviews.
Experience working within a formal software development lifecycle including code review, branching strategy, CI/CD pipelines, and QA gates.
CI/CD pipeline setup, branching strategies, automated testing, deployment scripting.
Understanding of common web vulnerabilities (XSS, SQL injection, CSRF), CVE scanning, dependency management.
Ability to produce clear technical documentation; comfortable working with non-technical stakeholders.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive salary benchmarked to your market and experience.
Fully remote working with flexible hours.
Generous paid time off and public holiday allowance.
Budget for learning, conferences, books, and equipment.
Meaningful work on a product that real customers rely on every day.
The chance to help shape the engineering culture of a growing, investor-backed business.

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Hard Skills & Tools

Perlmod_perlCPANTemplate ToolkitSolrZookeeperMariaDBMySQLJavaScriptCI/CD

Soft Skills

mentorshiptechnical standardscode reviewcommunicationdocumentation

Certifications

SOC 2 readiness