Senior Python Engineer with Scraping

For our customer author of the most widely used solution to recover digital revenue we are looking for a Python Engineer.  Over 1.000 companies rely on their platform to fight counterfeits, piracy, impersonation, and distribution abuse. The company has 270+ professionals and offices in New York, Barcelona, Beijing, and Salt Lake City. 

We are looking for a Senior Python Engineer to get involved in our tracking technology, libraries, and hundreds of projects that use them, helping us maintain our platform, optimize it, and further improve it.

Responsibilities:

Your day to day will be divided between writing good Python and idiomatic code, reviewing pull requests from other team members, debugging complex problems, and also participating in decision-making processes. That is, contributing with your experience in software architecture and design.

Requirements:

• 4+ years in a Python Developer position or similar
• The ability to express complex ideas in spoken and written English is crucial as our team is made up of people of 5 different nationalities and it is the language in which we communicate
• Good knowledge of Python, with the ability to write idiomatic and reusable code
• Experience in object-oriented design, software architecture best practices and patterns, and large-scale application development with maintainability and extensibility in mind
• Experience with web requests and Python request library
• Experience with TDD, testing best practices and methodologies: pytest, unittest, mock and answers libraries
• Experience using docker / docker-compose throughout the entire lifecycle, including development, testing, debugging, QA, CI, and deployment

Tech stack:

• Python, AWS, MySQL / SQLAlchemy, Snowflake / Redshift Airflow / Celery / RabbitMQ / Luigi, Redis, Scrapy, IDOL for data interfaces and schema, Sepia config system

Nice to have: 

• Understanding of the architecture of web applications (including ajax websites) and mastery of the development tools built into the browser, for reverse engineering purposes
• Inclination towards code optimizations (algorithmic complexity, memory usage)
• Proficiency in contributing to shared code bases using git
• Efficient text processing with regular expressions and XML parsing
• Experience with selenium / nodejs / phantomjs / splash or any similar software for scraping or automation purposes