Web Scraping Lead

International Consumer Services Sweden AB / Datajobb / Stockholm
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ICSS is looking for a software engineer to join our Operations team to work on web crawler development, data management and the overall technical management of the web scraping department for our flagship project: alaTest.

Are you interested in designing, building, and maintaining web crawlers built on the python Scrapy framework which alaTest uses to crawl millions of product pages a year?

Do you like working in an international company with diverse technologies and multiple ongoing projects?

ICSS was founded in 2005 as the pioneer of the Product Reviews aggregation and analysis sector. We collect, structure, match, analyse, present and syndicate product and review data, globally.

Our team is diverse, coming from every continent except Antarctica. We welcome all nationalities and backgrounds - provided that you are legally employable in Sweden. Our company language is English.

Job Responsibilities:
• Manage a team of internal and external scraping developers
• Plan, review, manage and deploy crawler code from our other developers
• Design, develop and maintain Scrapy web crawlers
• Leverage other technologies and systems from our platform to perform distributed information extraction, retrieval and data processing
• Identify and resolve performance and scalability opportunities

Requirements:
• Good communication in spoken and written English
• 2+ years of software development and/or web scraping management experience
• Solid Python knowledge (including older versions)
• Familiarity with Linux/UNIX, HTTP, HTML, Javascript and some networking
• Ability to work with production legacy code (bugfix, extend, optimize etc..)
• Basic MySQL operations and data manipulation skills
• Availability to work full time in our Stockholm HQ

Bonus points for:
• Solid Scrapy framework knowledge
• Familiarity with techniques and tools for crawling, extracting and processing data
• Intermediate to advanced MySQL skills
• Remote team management experience

alaTest is the world's leading aggregator and analyst of Product Reviews, using award-winning technologies including Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Machine Learning and Scrum/Kanban. We aggregate millions of product reviews every day from more than 3,000 international websites and magazines.
Consumers visit our websites in 19 countries to discover what products are the best for them.
Brands use our online tools to manage their review content and understand consumer opinions.
E-commerce retailers show our aggregated reviews with their products to give visitors more buying confidence.
Together with European insurance services provider VanAmeyde.com we developed a revolutionary product appraisal tool ValueChecker.net, that is quickly becoming popular in InsurTech.
alaTest headquarters are in Central Stockholm with a beautiful view over the Riddarfjärden, Old Town and City Hall.

Please send your application in English with a short personal introduction and CV to jobs@alatest.com. Please reference 'Web Scraping Lead' in the subject line.

Sökord: .PHP, SQL, MySQL, Java, Javascript, Git, Mercurial, web deployment, HTML, HTTP, SSL

alaTest was founded in 2005 and we have been at the forefront of the reviews and product aggregation sector. We collect, catalog and warehouse data as well as write software to manipulate, present and share it. We are a diverse team, currently hailing from every continent except Antarctica.
Together with European insurance services provider VanAmeyde.com we developed a cloud based product appraisal tool ValueChecker.net, that is now quickly becoming popular in InsurTech.
alaTest headquarters is in Central Stockholm with beautiful view over the Riddarfjärden, Old Town and City Hall.

ValueChecker is a revolutionary product expert tool for the Insurance industry.
It enables fast, simple and credible identification, valuation and depreciation of product claims. ValueChecker builds upon the technology and experience gained
by alaTest since 2005 in the field of consumer product information.
We welcome all nationalities and backgrounds - so long as you are legally employable in Sweden. Our company primary language is English.

If you have what it takes, look forward to challenges and want to join our team, send your CV and cover letter to jobs@alatest.com.
Please reference 'Web Scraping Lead' in subject line.
Note: We do require a small coding challenge to be completed by all applicants that pass the first review round.

Varaktighet, arbetstid
We welcome all nationalities and backgrounds - so long as you are legally employable in Sweden. Our company primary language is English. ALL APPLICATION MUST BE SUBMITTED IN ENGLISH. MUST BE AUTHORIZED TO WORK IN SWEDEN.

Publiceringsdatum
2018-08-29

Så ansöker du
Sista dag att ansöka är 2018-11-30

Företag
INTERNATIONAL CONSUMER SERVICES SWEDEN AB

Adress
INTERNATIONAL CONSUMER SERVICES SWEDEN AB
Söder Mälarstrand 21, 2 tr
11820 Stockholm

Kontorsadress
Söder Mälarstrand 21

Jobbnummer
4317739

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