Software Developer – Web Crawling (m/w/d)

Maltego Technologies; München; Hybrid; EUR 60.000 - 80.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

A technology company in Munich is seeking an experienced professional to develop advanced social media crawlers for law enforcement investigations. The ideal candidate has at least 3 years of Python experience, skills in web scraping, and a passion for clean code. This role offers a dynamic work environment with opportunities for personal impact and remote work options.

Leistungen

Company pension scheme

Mental health support

Supported language courses

Qualifikationen

• 3+ years of working experience in Python.
• Experience in web-crawling using Selenium or similar tools.
• Experience in building and maintaining CI pipelines.

Aufgaben

• Implement novel data collection procedures and reverse-engineer APIs.
• Contribute to Django backend development.
• Improve the automated testing suite of crawlers.

Kenntnisse

Python

Web-crawling

API Design

CI pipelines

Communication in English

Ausbildung

Degree in computer science or similar

Tools

Selenium

Gitlab-CI

Jenkins

Jobbeschreibung

Why we need you

Maltego is a leading provider of intelligence software used globally by security professionals, investigators, and analysts. Our all-in-one platform empowers users to discover, visualize, and analyze complex relationships in data, enabling faster and more accurate decision‑making. Our core products—Search, Graph, Evidence, and Monitor—are trusted by law enforcement, cybersecurity teams, and corporate investigators worldwide. When you join Maltego, you will become part of our new team. You will be helping to grow a small team specialized in social‑network investigation while still working closely with the engineers and architects that brought Maltego to life. Your mission in our technology team is to bring Maltego to the next level by building a world‑class tool and infrastructure.

What to expect

In this role you will:

• Work on the most in-depth social media crawlers used in law‑enforcement investigations around the world to fight crime by gathering indisputable evidence
• Take ownership over selected social network crawling modules by implementing novel data collection procedures and reverse engineering APIs
• Stay up to date with the open source community on how to extract relevant information from websites and social networks
• Improve the automated testing suite of our crawlers
• Contribute to our Django backend development or even frontend development, as well as our open source libraries on pypi, if you want to expand your technical breadth

Your profile in short

• Degree in computer science or similar subjects
• 3+ years of working experience preferably in Python
• Experience in web‑crawling using selenium or other similar tools
• Deep understanding of overall web‑technology landscape (you should be able to put words like Ajax, GraphQL, ProtoBuf, JQuery or CORS into the right categories)
• Experience in the design and implementation of Web APIs, and usage of GraphQL desired
• Experience in building and maintaining CI pipelines using Gitlab‑CI or similar applications like Jenkins or Github
• Excellent communication in English, German is a big plus
• Interested in test development and clean code principles
• Regular user of social networks and understand their fundamental mechanics

Why you will love Maltego

Here are some of the reasons why you will love Maltego:

• Insights into the daily operations of a fast‑growing tech scale‑up
• Opportunity to quickly take over responsibility and make a direct and long‑lasting impact
• Inclusive, diverse culture, where your voice and contributions matter
• Supported language courses
• Company pension scheme
• Mental health support via .nilo (psychologists & digital tools)

At Maltego, we are committed to supporting diversity and inclusion in our organization. We are an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applications from all individuals regardless of race, religion, color, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, age, or disability.

Location

Our Munich office or remotely from Germany

Required documents / information

Please apply with your CV and cover letter