Perl Developer

Be | Shaping the Future Poland has a proven position of being a reliable partner for financial services organisations to analyse complex requirements, find solutions and implement them in their entirety, regardless of their complexity. Since the foundation of Be Poland in 2013, we have been continually expanding and customising our spectrum of services. Today, we are privileged to have in our team the best individuals in each sector we operate within the financial services industry. For our partner, an international organization, we are looking for a Perl Developer to join our team.

Location: Remote (European Union)

Contract Type: B2B

We are looking for a Perl Developer to join a team responsible for maintaining and modernizing an application. The role focuses on improving software quality, stabilizing the platform, resolving recurring production issues, and supporting the gradual modernization of the development environment.

Responsibilities

• Maintain, enhance, and refactor a large legacy Perl codebase.

• Implement new features while ensuring compatibility with existing solutions.

• Investigate and resolve production issues, software defects, and recurring system failures.

• Improve application stability, robustness, and maintainability through code optimization and refactoring.

• Standardize data handling, character encodings, and file processing to eliminate inconsistencies.

• Improve the quality and consistency of CSV and other data processing mechanisms.

• Support the migration of legacy code into a structured Git-based development workflow.

• Assist in resolving version control inconsistencies and improving deployment readiness.

• Analyze existing architecture and recommend improvements to coding standards and software design.

• Collaborate with development and operations teams to improve development processes and reduce operational risks.

• Contribute to technical documentation and knowledge sharing within the team.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software development experience.

• Strong hands-on experience with Perl development in enterprise or legacy environments.

• Experience maintaining, refactoring, and modernizing large existing codebases.

• Strong understanding of software engineering principles, clean code, and maintainable application architecture.

• Experience troubleshooting complex production issues and improving application stability.

• Good knowledge of Git and version control best practices.

• Experience working with text processing, file parsing, CSV handling, and character encodings (UTF-8, ISO-8859-1, Windows-1252).

• Understanding of data validation, error handling, and robust application design.

• Familiarity with Linux/Unix environments and shell scripting.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Ability to work independently and proactively identify areas for improvement.

• Fluent English.

Nice to Have

• Experience with legacy system modernization and technical debt reduction.

• Experience designing deployment pipelines or CI/CD processes.

• Knowledge of software architecture and system design.

Our Offer

• Competitive remuneration on B2B contract

• Option to activate Medicover and Multisport on preferential terms

• Access to Mindgram – mental health & well-being platform

• Free gym at Q22

• Personal development – internal online / onsite BeTalks

• Referral bonus program

• International environment