Junior Software Engineer – Data collection

| Austin
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Summary:

This role is not one-size fits all. We are excited to consider candidates from all types of backgrounds. Be prepared to discuss how your background, personal strengths and previous experience can contribute to your ability to excel in this role and help New Knowledge accomplish its mission. This is an ideal role for lifetime learners interested in moving into software engineering. In lieu of previous development experience we will consider candidates who can demonstrate relevant skills with personal/professional projects, volunteer work, blogs or other ways you can showcase your interests and talents.

 

What you’ll do:

  • Design, develop and maintain web scrapers written with Python.

  • Create tests and other early warning signals to alert when and how scrapers fail.

  • Support and monitor scrapers performance in production.

  • Create documentation capable of describing how your scrapers work to non-technical audience.

  • Work as part of a team to integrate scrapers into New Knowledge’s data pipeline using tools like Docker, Kubernetes and Kafka.

 

Skills:

  • Familiarity with HTTP, HTML, Javascript and how websites are built

  • Ability to create abstractions. Much of your work will require you to find commonalities across disparate datasets and re-use code where possible.

  • Experience with Selenium, Python scraping libraries (Scrapy, Beautifulsoup, etc.) is a plus.

  • Familiarity with tools and techniques used to extract data from websites is a plus.

 

Who you are:

  • You are seeking a career transition from related fields such as QA, analyst roles or other non traditional background which you feel will make you an excellent team member.

  • And/or you are a highly motivated recent graduate of a coding bootcamp.

  • And/or you already have 2+ years experience developing software as part of a team.

  • You’re adaptable and looking for new things to work on

  • Not afraid to ask for help

 

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