Web Scraping Engineer – PHP

We are looking for self-motivated person with passion for software development and maintenance, with ability to work independently as well as work in team and client representatives.

The candidate is expected to:

• Actively participate in meetings with various stakeholders
• Have strong understanding and working knowledge of web crawlers/web scrapers, to browse and extract the web content
• Develop a deep understanding of the multiple data sources on web and know what data to scrap, parse and store this data efficiently
• Develop application frameworks for automating and maintaining constant flow of data from multiple sources
• Work independently with little supervision
• Build and maintain high quality reusable code
• Take up complete ownership of solutions and assigned tasks
• Work in a collaborative manner with other team members

Desired experience and qualification:

• Excellent English communication
• 1+ years of professional software development experience
• Previous experience with web crawling is a must
• Strong experience in PHP & MySQL
• Solid understanding of object-oriented programming
• A knack for writing clean, readable PHP code
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Github, Gitlab etc.
• Experience with multi-processing, multi-threading data applications
• Working Knowledge in Document Extraction
• Experience in Ruby would be added advantage
• Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application