Software Engineer - Web Scraping

Work from home

We are looking for a Software Engineer with experience in data and web scraping. The ideal candidate has worked on large data collections from various online, web, API, and RSS sources and datasets. Any technology stack is accepted including Java, NodeJS, and Python, among others. The developer would be joining an existing team building high performing backend components and services as part of a larger platform architecture, serving various products and applications. This is a full-time, work from home position, working for a US Based client of Cyrillic Software. We are looking for self-motivated and hardworking individuals who want to grow their career utilizing modern technologies and best practices.

The Software Engineer Position will have the following responsibilities:

• Work with an existing Agile team in all aspects of the SDLC
• Create, document, and understand software/system requirements utilizing Agile best practices
• Work with peers, testers, and operations to test and validate working software
• Design and implement secure and scalable software solutions
• Participate in requirements discovery and analysis

The ideal candidate should have most of the following skills:

• Designing and developing performant and scalable Web Scraping components and systems
• Understanding of web and networking protocols, as well as common infrastructure patterns for data scraping and preparation
• Experience with different types of database and persistence mechanisms including RDBMS, SQL, and NoSQL technologies as well as different file formats like JSON and XML
• Understanding of Big Data technologies like Hadoop
• Desire and ability to learn new technologies and systems
• Excellent Verbal and written English Communication Skills

The following experience is also desired, but not required:

• Understanding of Unit Testing and Automated Testing Best Practices and Concepts
• Understanding of CI/CD and Automation best practices
• Understanding and experience with Data Processing, Batch Processing, and Messaging technologies
• Experience with container-based technologies like Docker and Kubernetes

For selected candidates that join our team, we are offering:

• Competitive salary
• Working in an international team
• Work from home
• Huge potential of future growth, as well as potentially working in the US

Deadline for applications: 21.01.2020.