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NOW HIRING: Senior Backend Engineer


Company: Scrapinghub
Website: https://scrapinghub.com
Headquarters: Ballincollig, Cork, Ireland


Scrapinghub is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to develop and grow a new web crawling and extraction SaaS.

The new SaaS will include our recently released AutoExtract which provides an API for automated e-commerce and article extraction from web pages using Machine Learning. AutoExtract is a distributed application written in Java, Scala and Python; components communicate via Apache Kafka and HTTP, and orchestrated using Kubernetes.

You will be designing and implementing distributed systems: large-scale web crawling platform, integrating Deep Learning based web data extraction components, working on queue algorithms, large datasets, creating a development platform for other company departments, etc. - this is going to be a challenging journey for any backend engineer!

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will have a large impact on the system we’re building, the new SaaS is still in the early stages of development.


Job Responsibilities:
  • Work on the core platform: develop and troubleshoot Kafka-based distributed application, write and change components implemented in Java, Scala and Python.
  • Work on new features, including design and implementation. You should be able to own and be responsible for the complete lifecycle of your features and code.
  • Solve distributed systems problems, such as scalability, transparency, failure handling, security, multi-tenancy.

 Requirements
  • 3+ years of experience building large scale data processing systems or high load services
  • Strong background in algorithms and data structures.
  • Strong track record in at least two of these technologies: Java, Scala, Python, C++. 3+ years of experience with at least one of them.
  • Experience working with Linux and Docker.
  • Good communication skills in English.
  • Computer Science or other engineering degree.

 Bonus points for:
  • Kubernetes experience
  • Apache Kafka experience
  • Experience building event-driven architectures
  • Understanding of web browser internals
  • Good knowledge of at least one RDBMS.
  • Knowledge of today’s cloud provider offerings: GCP, Amazon AWS, etc.
  • Web data extraction experience: web crawling, web scraping.
  • Experience with web data processing tasks: finding similar items, mining data streams, link analysis, etc.
  • History of open source contributions

 Benefits

 As a new Shubber, 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.
  • Receive paid time off
  • Enrol in Scrapinghub's Share Option Programme

CLICK HERE TO APPLY


Source: Remotely Awesome Jobs, Stack Overflow, Scrapinghub
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