2 days ago
Remote, Worldwide or Bucharest, RomaniaMid Level
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain Scrapy web crawlers.
- Use the Zyte platform and open-source projects for distributed information extraction, retrieval, and data processing.
- Identify and resolve performance and scalability issues in distributed crawling at scale.
- Identify, debug, and fix issues in open-source projects, including Scrapy.
Requirements
- Have 3+ years of software development experience in Python.
- Demonstrate solid Python knowledge.
- Be familiar with Linux/UNIX, HTTP, HTML, JavaScript, and networking.
- Communicate effectively in written and spoken English.
- Be available to work full time.
- Scrapy experience is a bonus.
- Familiarity with crawling, extraction, and data-processing techniques and tools such as Scrapy, NLTK, pandas, scikit-learn, MapReduce, and NoSQL is a bonus.
Benefits
- Fully remote work with flexibility to work from anywhere.
- Work with a self-motivated, multicultural, globally distributed team.
- Attend conferences and meet team members from around the world.
- Work with open-source technologies and tools.
- 35 days of paid holidays.
- Full-time employment.
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About Zyte
Zyte builds SaaS and services for extracting structured data from public websites, including Zyte API for crawling/unblocking/extraction, Smart Proxy Manager, and fully managed data projects for enterprise teams. Its business model combines subscriptions with professional services. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Ballincollig, Cork, the privately held company is the original author and ongoing maintainer of the Scrapy web-scraping framework.