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About Us
At Zyte, we eat data for breakfast and you can eat your breakfast anywhere and work for Zyte. Founded in 2010, we are a globally distributed team of over 240 Zytans working from over 28 countries who are on a mission to enable our customers to extract the data they need to continue to innovate and grow their businesses. We believe that all businesses deserve a smooth pathway to data.
For more than a decade, Zyte has led the way in building powerful, easy-to-use tools to collect, format, and deliver web data, quickly, dependably, and at scale. Today, the data we extract helps thousands of organizations make smarter business decisions, secure competitive advantage, and drive sustainable growth. Over 3,000 companies and 1 million developers rely on our tools and services to get the data they need from the web.
About the Job:
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, with many big projects in the pipeline. 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 skills in written and spoken English
* Availability to work full-time
Bonus points for:
* Scrapy experience
* Familiarity with techniques and tools for crawling, extracting, and processing data (e.g., Scrapy, NLTK, pandas, scikit-learn, mapreduce, NoSQL)
* Proficient English
Benefits
As a new Zytan, you will:
* Become part of a self-motivated, progressive, multicultural team
* Enjoy the freedom and flexibility to work from where you do your best work
* Attend conferences and meet with team members worldwide
* Work with cutting-edge open source technologies and tools
* Receive 35 days paid holidays
Seniority level
* Mid-Senior level
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Engineering and Information Technology
Industries
* IT Services and IT Consulting
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