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Python Engineer, Webscraper

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Python Engineer, Webscraper

Hybrid Edinburgh

About:

Do you enjoy extracting effective data from the web then transforms it into usable formats? Are you passionate about ML and AI? Have you advanced Python skills? If so this exciting opportunity should be for you. This role will allow you to join a dynamic fintech company playing a crucial role in reshaping the norm.

Key Responsibilities:

Developing and implementing web scraping tools using Python and JavaScript.
Analysing website structures and data patterns to inform scraping strategies.
Writing efficient scripts designed to handle dynamic and complex content.
Designing extraction workflows to collect the targeted information.
Data sanitation and normalisation to feed Machine Learning.
Processing and formatting extracted data into practical, usable forms.
Performing data cleaning to ensure precision and uniformity.Essential Skills:

Advanced knowledge of Python
Working knowledge of Web scraping tools such as Beautiful Soup, Scrapy, ParseHub, OctoParse, Scraper API, Mozenda, Webhose.io, Content Grabber
Experience scraping large complex Data sets
Understanding technologies such as HTML CSS JavaScript
Exposure to manipulation libraries such as Pandas or NumPy
Working Knowledge of cloud platform such as AWS or AzureDesirable

Experience working a startup, understanding the fast-paced nature of it.
Familiarity with using python for asymmetric cryptography
Familiarity with using python for parallel processing
Exposure to Machine Learning.
Sanitising and normalising Data.Please note presence in the Edinburgh office on a regular basis is desired, therefore a reasonable commutable distance would be ideal

Reward

In return you will have the chance to work within a friendly and fast-paced business with excellent career progression plans, this is an outstanding opportunity to significantly progress your career.

Key skills

Software Engineer, Software Developer, Python, Java, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Web scraping, Web crawling, Data extraction, Data transformation, Web scraping techniques, data parsing, CSV, Jason, Automation, Beautiful Soup, Scrapy, ParseHub, OctoParse, Scraper API, Mozenda, Webhose.io, Content Grabber Pandas, NumPy, SQL, NoSQL, AI, Machine Learning, AWS, Azure, GCP

Next Steps

Apply by contacting Gregor Brown (url removed)

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