Remote Python Developer - Remote

Description:

• Zyte is seeking Software Engineers to join their Delivery team for web crawler development using Scrapy.
• The role involves designing, developing, and maintaining Scrapy web crawlers.
• Engineers will leverage the Zyte platform and open source projects for distributed information extraction, retrieval, and data processing.
• Responsibilities include identifying and resolving performance and scalability issues with distributed crawling at scale.
• The position also requires helping to identify, debug, and fix problems with open source projects, including Scrapy.
• The company has a strong open source foundation and is focused on building powerful tools for data collection and processing.

Requirements:

• Candidates must have 3+ years of software development experience in Python.
• A solid knowledge of Python is required.
• Familiarity with Linux/UNIX, HTTP, HTML, Javascript, and Networking is necessary.
• Good communication skills in written and spoken English are essential.
• Candidates must be available to work full time.
• Bonus points for experience with Scrapy and familiarity with techniques and tools for crawling, extracting, and processing data, such as NLTK, pandas, scikit-learn, mapreduce, and nosql.
• Proficient English is also a plus.

Benefits:

• New employees will become part of a self-motivated, progressive, multi-cultural team.
• There is freedom and flexibility to work from any location that suits the employee best.
• Employees will have opportunities to attend conferences and meet with team members from around the globe.
• The role involves working with cutting-edge open source technologies and tools.
• Employees are entitled to 35 days of paid holidays.