Python Developer - Remote

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 250 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, 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

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.

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 (e.g. 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.