Python Developer / Web Scraping Engineer

We are a growing medium-sized business with headquarters in the historical city of Weimar, Germany. With continuous coordination with legal authorities from around the world (e.g. customs authorities, export control authorities). We are the leading provider of customs/global trade data, helping companies from a diverse range of industries.

Tasks

• System monitoring, issue escalation

• Familiarity with techniques and tools for crawling, extracting, and processing data (i.e., Scrapy, Pandas, etc.), and experience running large-scale data scraping projects.

• Scraping assets monitoring and support

• Support existing and add new data sources for scraping

• Writing reports on system status and possible issues

• Running scrapers on-demand

• Database development experience, focused on high volume data storage and retrieval applications

• Database development experience, focused on high-volume data storage and retrieval applicationss beyond those best practices

• Fluency and excellent communication skills in English are must in order to work with an international team.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or the equivalent demonstrated experience

• Ability to work in Agile environment

• Skills required: Python Programmer

• At least 2 years

• The applicants should have experience in the following area(s): Python, Scrapy, XPath, CSS, Regex, XHR, JSON, XML, Selenium, requests, Beautiful-Soup, Pandas, Proxy-rotation

• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): Software Company

Employment Type: Full-Time (40 Hours/Per Week)

Working Language: English

Benefits

• Above-average salary structure from the market

• Entry into a collegial, modern, and supportive working atmosphere at a market leader

• A young, dedicated, and global multicultural team

• Flexible working hours and remote working opportunity

• Flat hierarchies

• A wide range of training opportunities