Remote Python Developer for Web Crawling & Open Source

Zyte Group; Islamabad; Remote; PKR 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

35 days paid holidays

Job summary

Zyte is seeking Software Engineers to join our Delivery team to work on web crawler development with Scrapy, our flagship, open source project. You will design, develop and maintain Scrapy web crawlers and leverage the Zyte platform for distributed information extraction and data processing.

You should have 3+ years of Python development, solid Python knowledge, Linux/UNIX familiarity, and strong English communication.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain Scrapy web crawlers.
• Leverage the Zyte platform and 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.

Skills

Python

Linux/UNIX

HTTP/HTML/JS

English communication

Full-time

Scrapy

NLTK

Pandas

Scikit-learn

MapReduce

NoSQL

Tools

Scrapy

NLTK

Pandas

Scikit-learn

MapReduce

NoSQL

Job description

Zyte is seeking Software Engineers to join our Delivery team to work on web crawler development with Scrapy, our flagship, open source project. You will design, develop and maintain Scrapy web crawlers and leverage the Zyte platform for distributed information extraction and data processing.

You should have 3+ years of Python development, solid Python knowledge, Linux/UNIX familiarity, and strong English communication.