Python Engineer (web scraping)

Must Have:

- Python 2, 3

- HTTP protocol knowledge

- Python Concurrency

- PostgreSQL, MySQL

- Crawlers and web scraping experience

• Upper-Intermediate English

Qualifications & Skills:

- Desire and energy to work in a fast-paced and constantly changing environment, previous _startup_ experience would be a plus

- Strong background in developing complex enterprise-class software running on server platforms

- Strong ownership, passion, and a love for solving problems

Will be a plus:

- XML / HTML / XSD / XSLT / XPath / XQuery

- Javascript

- Headless browsers (QWebView, PhantomJS, etc)

- Web services

- Messaging queues (RabbitMQ, etc)

- Application monitoring and metric gathering

- Docker (Mesos/Marathon)

We offer multiple benefits including:

- Working for the product company which leads innovation in the industry

- Competitive salary

- MacBook as a workstation

- Pet-friendly workplace

- 24 paid vacation days per year, sick leaves

- Free coffee, fruits, and sweets

- Educational possibilities and free English classes

- Nice, welcoming and diverse internal community

- Work-rest balance support (sleeping room, massage, hookah, flexible schedule, partially remote work, no dress code)

- Possibility to come up with ideas, be heard and see them implemented

We are glad to offer you the following opportunities:

- Tackle architectural and design challenges, nurture innovation

- Multinational projects, influencing cybercrime fighting industry all over the world

- Access to bleeding edge hardware and cloud services

- Develop fault-tolerant and well-monitored solutions aiming at five nines uptime

Responsibilities:

- Develop and support innovative scraping engine backend

- Add new and support existing data sources for scraping

- Participate in design and development of data extraction services

- Make a difference by participating in counteracting cybercrime

About a project:

We are building an actor-focused cyber threat intelligence SaaS product. From the customer perspective, it's an online portal and API that allows them to consume, query, analyse and visualize multiple sources of cyber threat intelligence information. From the technology perspective, the solution involves:

- Web scraping

- SQL / NoSQL technologies

- Middleware and monitoring services

- Rich web application

- AWS cloud