Python Developer - Remote

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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.

Job 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

Zyte’s platform and Delivery offerings have been growing tremendously over the past couple of years but there are a lot of big projects waiting in the pipeline, and in this role you would be a key part of that process. Here’s what we’re looking for:

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.

Bonus points for:

Scrapy experience is a big plus.

Familiarity with techniques and tools for crawling, extracting and processing data ( Scrapy, NLTK, pandas, scikit-learn, mapreduce, nosql, etc).

Proficient English

Benefits

As a new Zytan, you will:

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