[Hiring] Python Developer @Zyte

Role Description

Are you interested in building web crawlers harnessing the Zyte platform, which powers crawls of over 3 billion pages a month? Do you like working in a company with a strong open source foundation?

Zyte is looking for Software Engineers to join our Delivery team to work on web crawler development with Scrapy, our flagship, open source project.

• 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.

Qualifications

• 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.

Requirements

• 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.