Shake: Python Engineer (Web Scraping)

Shake

Posted: about 1 year ago

Company Website
https://weworkremotely...
Position type
full time
Job source
Weworkremotely
Category
programming
Remote
Yes
Salary
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Job location
Anywhere in the World
About

Headquarters: United States
URL: https://www.shake.io

Hi, we're Shake πŸ‘‹ Our mission is to help companies grow with online reviews, whether 1st party (on their business) or 3rd party (on other businesses). We leverage big data to enable workflows that have never been seen before, with a software-as-a-service approach in Reviewshake and a data-as-a-service approach in Datashake.

We're an established business with thousands of paying customers and a team of 20+ and are searching for a full-time remote Python Engineer to help us build out our services. You’ll be an important part of our early-stage team and work on several projects, internal frameworks, and microservices. We are looking for someone who is excited about building out game-changing technologies that are used by software engineers, data scientists, quants, and data analysts all around the world.

You're a proactive, sharp, and self-motivated individual who is eager to learn and take ownership of our products. You love communicating and working with others in your team toward success, taking us from where we are now to where we want to be!

Being bootstrapped (not venture-backed) and fully remote, we don’t strive for growth at all costs and are building a company that we can be proud of, and enjoy working for.

Our tech stack:
  • Python, FastAPI
  • Celery
  • RabbitMQ
  • MySQL, Elasticsearch, Redis
  • Github, CI/CD
  • Docker, Kubernetes
  • AWS/OVH

On a typical day, you will:
  • uphold our high engineering standards and bring consistency to our product development
  • create and develop new functionalities as well as maintain existing ones
  • implement web crawlers based on ongoing requirements
  • write clean and scalable code
  • write code-reviews
  • learn best practices from other team members

Requirements:
Our ideal candidate has:
  • strong knowledge of Python (2+ years)
  • experience with high-volume web scraping and building web parsers
  • experience with Redis and queues (Celery/RabbitMQ)
  • experience building REST APIs (FastAPI)
  • good knowledge of RDBMS databases
  • fluent English and excellent communication skills

Nice to have:
  • experience creating products for developers, data engineers, and/or data consumers
  • passion for writing clean code and tests
  • experience with ElasticSearch
  • experience with headless browsers
  • hands-on approach and is proactive
  • a keen eye for detail, striving for perfection

Benefits
Our team is fully remote and we communicate primarily through Slack, Linear, Notion, and a few weekly meetings via Google Meet - we believe the best work happens when given lots of uninterrupted time that's free of distractions.

πŸ’° Salary range: $24,000 - $40,000 / year (USD, gross)
🌎  Work from anywhere
πŸ–οΈ 26 days paid time off
🏒 Co-work expenses covered (up to $300/m)
πŸ“— $500/year learning budget
πŸ–₯️ $250 Desktop budget
πŸ‰ $15 Uber Eats or Vitamin booster budget
πŸ’ƒ $30 Fun Budget
πŸ—ΊοΈ Yearly retreat in cool locations (the last one was in Thailand!)

Learn more about our team and values on our company website: https://shake.io/about

Interview process
  • Technical Task (done asynchronously)
  • Task review
  • Culture Fit Interview
  • Technical Interview + task feedback
  • Quick 15 minute call with our CEO
  • Selection - Once all candidates have been interviewed, the final selection is made, and candidates will be notified via email

To apply: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/shake-python-engineer-web-scraping

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