About Scrapinghub:
Founded in 2010, Scrapinghub is on pace to grow revenue more than 5x in the next 3 years, with the largest growth coming from our SaaS product business lines.
We are a fast growing and diverse technology business turning web content into useful data with a cloud-based web crawling platform, off-the-shelf datasets, and turn-key web scraping services. Our comprehensive web crawling stack powers crawls of over 9 billion pages per month and is used by everyone from individual developers to Fortune 100 companies.
We’re a globally distributed team of over 190 Shubbers who are passionate about web data and data science.
About the Job:
As a Python Developer in the Internal Systems Team at Scrapinghub, you will be responsible for all internal systems that we use to run our business. You will be responsible for developing and maintaining our systems which comprise mainly cloud based applications with custom integrations between them. You will be responsible for selecting or developing the tools required to support all internal business functions (Sales, Finance, HR, etc), its workflows and integrations.
You will thrive in this job if you’re obsessed with making organizations more efficient by using the right tools and processes. You will constantly be researching and deploying new ways to make internal processes more efficient.
Job Responsibilities:
- Develop webapps, tools and integrations using Python/Django and Google Cloud Platform.
- Maintain systems used to support the organisation processes.
- Reporting progress against project plans that you build, escalating/resolving any blocking issues or decisions in a timely manner.
- Responsible for full systems lifecycle, including requirements, design, development, testing, deployment/release, maintenance and providing internal support to users when needed.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience with development in Python.
- 3+ yrs of other web technologies/programming languages (Django, Rails, etc).
- Experience with Google Cloud Platform or AWS
- Database / query experience.
- Experience with application mesh and writing webhooks’ callbacks.
- Knowledge of Salesforce or applications that integrate with the SFDC platform.
- Good team player, creating environments that work towards shared goals, contributing ideas and accepting change.
- Ability to identify the components of a complex situation or problem, and dissect them into building blocks to develop a system or solution that address it.
- Ability to communicate with the different business units and people, helping them spec out what they really need.
- Likes to keep learning new things and jumping into many different projects and systems
Bonus:
- Experience with frontend development (HTML5, Javascript, CSS)
Benefits
As a new Shubber, you will:
- Become part of a self-motivated, progressive, multi-cultural team.
- Have the freedom and flexibility to work from where you do your best work.
- Attend conferences and meet with team members from across the globe.
- Work with cutting-edge open source technologies and tools.
- 35 days paid holidays
- Enrol in Scrapinghub's Share Programme
Deadline for applications: 01.05.2021.
