Zyte is hiring a
Python Developer

Summary

Zyte is seeking a Software Engineer to join their Delivery team for web crawler development using Scrapy. The role requires 3+ years of software development experience in Python, solid Python knowledge, familiarity with Linux/UNIX, HTTP, HTML, Javascript and Networking, good communication skills in English, and availability to work full time. Bonus points are given for Scrapy experience and proficient English.

Requirements

• 3+ years of software development experience in Python
• Solid Python knowledge
• Familiarity with Linux/UNIX, HTTP, HTML, Javascript and Networking
• Good communication in written and spoken English
• Availability to work full time

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain Scrapy web crawlers
• Leverage the Zyte platform and our open source projects to perform distributed information extraction, retrieval and data processing
• Identify and resolve performance and scalability issues with distributed crawling at scale
• Help identify, debug and fix problems with open source projects, including Scrapy

Preferred Qualifications

• Scrapy experience is a big plus
• Familiarity with techniques and tools for crawling, extracting and processing data (e.g. Scrapy, NLTK, pandas, scikit-learn, mapreduce, nosql, etc)

Benefits

• 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