Senior Python Engineer with Scraping

We are seeking a Senior Python Engineer to join our customer, a leading provider of digital revenue recovery solutions. This role involves working with tracking technology, libraries, and numerous projects to maintain, optimize, and enhance their platform. The ideal candidate will contribute to software architecture and design, ensuring the platform's continued improvement and scalability. The company serves over 1,000 businesses globally, fighting counterfeits, piracy, impersonation, and distribution abuse.

Must Have

• Write good Python and idiomatic code
• Review pull requests from other team members
• Debug complex problems
• Participate in decision-making processes, contributing with experience in software architecture and design
• 4+ years in a Python Developer position or similar
• Ability to express complex ideas in spoken and written English
• Good knowledge of Python, with the ability to write idiomatic and reusable code
• Experience in object-oriented design, software architecture best practices and patterns, and large-scale application development with maintainability and extensibility in mind
• Experience with web requests and Python request library
• Experience with TDD, testing best practices and methodologies: pytest, unittest, mock and answers libraries
• Experience using docker / docker-compose throughout the entire lifecycle, including development, testing, debugging, QA, CI, and deployment

Good to Have

• Understanding of the architecture of web applications (including ajax websites) and mastery of browser development tools for reverse engineering purposes
• Inclination towards code optimizations (algorithmic complexity, memory usage)
• Proficiency in contributing to shared code bases using git
• Efficient text processing with regular expressions and XML parsing
• Experience with selenium / nodejs / phantomjs / splash or any similar software for scraping or automation purposes

Perks & Benefits

• Flexible working format - remote, office-based or flexible
• A competitive salary and good compensation package
• Personalized career growth
• Professional development tools (mentorship program, tech talks and trainings, centers of excellence, and more)
• Active tech communities with regular knowledge sharing
• Education reimbursement
• Memorable anniversary presents
• Corporate events and team buildings
• Other location-specific benefits

WELCOME BONUS

$1000

Work type:

Office/Remote

Technical Level:

Senior

Job Category:

Software Development

Project:

Red Points

For our customer author of the most widely used solution to recover digital revenue we are looking for a Python Engineer. Over 1.000 companies rely on their platform to fight counterfeits, piracy, impersonation, and distribution abuse. The company has 270+ professionals and offices in New York, Barcelona, Beijing, and Salt Lake City.

We are looking for a Senior Python Engineer to get involved in our tracking technology, libraries, and hundreds of projects that use them, helping us maintain our platform, optimize it, and further improve it.

Responsibilities:

Your day to day will be divided between writing good Python and idiomatic code, reviewing pull requests from other team members, debugging complex problems, and also participating in decision-making processes. That is, contributing with your experience in software architecture and design.

Requirements:

• 4+ years in a Python Developer position or similar
• The ability to express complex ideas in spoken and written English is crucial as our team is made up of people of 5 different nationalities and it is the language in which we communicate
• Good knowledge of Python, with the ability to write idiomatic and reusable code
• Experience in object-oriented design, software architecture best practices and patterns, and large-scale application development with maintainability and extensibility in mind
• Experience with web requests and Python request library
• Experience with TDD, testing best practices and methodologies: pytest, unittest, mock and answers libraries
• Experience using docker / docker-compose throughout the entire lifecycle, including development, testing, debugging, QA, CI, and deployment

Tech stack:

• Python, AWS, MySQL / SQLAlchemy, Snowflake / Redshift Airflow / Celery / RabbitMQ / Luigi, Redis, Scrapy, IDOL for data interfaces and schema, Sepia config system

Nice to have:

• Understanding of the architecture of web applications (including ajax websites) and mastery of the development tools built into the browser, for reverse engineering purposes
• Inclination towards code optimizations (algorithmic complexity, memory usage)
• Proficiency in contributing to shared code bases using git
• Efficient text processing with regular expressions and XML parsing
• Experience with selenium / nodejs / phantomjs / splash or any similar software for scraping or automation purposes

We offer*:

• Flexible working format - remote, office-based or flexible
• A competitive salary and good compensation package
• Personalized career growth
• Professional development tools (mentorship program, tech talks and trainings, centers of excellence, and more)
• Active tech communities with regular knowledge sharing
• Education reimbursement
• Memorable anniversary presents
• Corporate events and team buildings
• Other location-specific benefits

*not applicable for freelancers