Software Engineer

Summary

Join Wiser Solutions' Extraction Team as a Software Developer to contribute to and maintain a library of web crawling bots used by major brands and retailers. You will design creative solutions to complex problems, enhance your existing skills, and make a significant impact. This role offers hands-on experience with high visibility. The team utilizes diverse technologies and has extensive cloud and big data experience. You will write, test, and maintain code, troubleshoot the platform, evaluate technical trade-offs, and analyze new bot technologies to improve scalability. The position requires proficiency in web scraping and familiarity with various web technologies and databases.

Requirements

• Proficiency in web scraping
• Familiarity with regular expressions
• Familiarity with web technology, such as HTTP, JSON, HTML, XPath, or JavaScript
• Experience with databases, SQL, or NoSQL
• Experience with REST services and API design
• A real passion for clean code and finding elegant solutions to problems
• Eagerness to expand your knowledge and abilities in web scraping and cloud-based technologies
• You look ahead to identify opportunities and foster a culture of innovation
• You are a dedicated team member, committed to fulfilling all job duties and responsibilities, meeting deadlines, and delivering results consistently
• An eagerness to learn new things, and improve upon existing skills, abilities, and practices
• BS in Computer Science or a related field and 2 years + professional experience

Responsibilities

• Write clean, efficient, thoroughly tested code. Much of our code is Python, but we use all kinds of languages and frameworks
• Maintain the platform that puts reports and visualizations into the hands of our customers
• Troubleshoot, test, and maintain the platform, bots, and databases to ensure strong optimization and functionality
• Evaluate the technical trade-offs of decisions and build things that last and scale
• Maintain and fix existing bot issues
• Create and analyze new bot technologies - figuring out how we can scale up our bots and systems

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in Agile project management tool (e.g. JIRA)
• Experience with version control systems (Git, Subversion, etc..)
• Programming experience on Unix based infrastructure
• Knowledge of cloud-based systems (EC2, Rack space, etc..)
• Expertise with big data, analytics, machine learning, and personalization