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Senior Developer - Web Crawler

 

 

We are looking for an experienced world-class software engineer to join our team. If you the kind of person that:

 

  • Is intelligent, highly motivated and enjoy working with a successful team that gets things done?
  • Does 10 times the work that your peers do because you are bright and passionate about your work and don’t need to be told what to do?
  • Loves to learn and interact with a diverse group of bright and successful engineers and business executives?
  • Can explain clearly, concisely and accurately to an intelligent executive while being aware of and able to manage the low-level details?
  • Enjoys tackling challenging problems that most of your peers wouldn’t attempt to solve?
  • Is looking to get in on the ground floor of startup that will be a billion dollar company?

 

Then we have the perfect opportunity for you!!

 

Job Description

  • Develop, maintain and enhance the company’s web crawler and parser
  • Prototype, design, implement, test and deploy
  • Monitor performance and identify opportunities for improvement
  • Document and teach our training team how to use the web-crawler.
  • Solicit and analyze feedback from business executives and trainers to prioritize development
  • Interact with Senior Professionals including PhD Scientists and business executives located in the USA

 

Requirements

  • (Python or Java), preferably Python
  • 3+ years experience implementing crawlers, scrapers, parsers, transformers
  • 5+ years experience working in professionally managed software development companies
  • 3+ years DHTML, Javascript, XPath, XSLT, WWW::Mechanize
  • Text parsing scripting languages
  • Linux Operating systems (Redhat experience a plus)
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills (strong English language skills)
  • BS in Computer Science, Engineering or Physics

 

PREFERRED Experience with

  • Distributed system development
  • Oracle, Posgres
  • Lead role or management experience is a plus
  • Strong mathematical skills is a plus

 

Compensation

  • Our model is to hire a few very intelligent, talented and hard working people as opposed to an army of mediocre people.
  • We tend to pay higher than comparable companies to attract and retain the high-caliber people we need

 

Locations

  • San Francisco, CA
  • Scottsdale, AZ

 

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