Python Developer

Summary

Join Zyte, a globally distributed team building powerful web data extraction tools, as a Software Engineer in the Delivery team. You will design, develop, and maintain Scrapy web crawlers, leveraging the Zyte platform for distributed information extraction and processing. The role involves resolving performance and scalability issues in large-scale distributed crawling and contributing to open-source projects like Scrapy. This position requires 3+ years of Python software development experience, solid Python knowledge, and familiarity with Linux/UNIX, HTTP, HTML, Javascript, and Networking. The company offers a flexible work environment, opportunities to attend conferences, and 35 days of paid holidays.

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)
• Proficient English

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