Delivery Engineer
Import.IO, India
Job Description
Import.io is on a mission to enable web data. The web is the world’s largest database, but getting data from the web is hard. Import.io is on an ambitious mission to solve that problem and make web data a reliable, high quality data source. Effective use of data can provide incredible efficiency and value to almost any business, from the smallest independent company to the largest multinational. It can also advance education, academic research, charitable work, investigative journalism and many other efforts that help to make our world a better place. We’ve built the world’s only enterprise Web Data Integration platform that can parse data from any website, at scale, and deliver that data accurately, on time, every time. We process hundreds of millions to billions of transactions every month. Our customers are among the world’s leading organizations and they use web data on their most important business problems, running mission critical applications and services with the web data that we provide to them. Together we will make sure that no one has to ever write a web scraper again and we’re just getting started.
The Role:
We are looking for Delivery Engineer(s) to join our Delivery team! Our clients may have a requirement for thousands of new extractors, whose creation, testing, and deployment is distributed between the team of Delivery Engineers. This is a critical role and as a hands-on technical expert, s/he is responsible for the implementation of complex extractors and assuring that the output (quality, efforts, schedule) is in line with project milestones. He/she will understand our product and the SDK, apply configurations amp; transformations related to the implementation. We are looking for talented individuals with obsessive attention to detail and an appetite for ownership who will code in JavaScript.
What you’ll be doing:
- Understand the customer requirements and own the extractor implementation end-to-end
- Help Solution Architect to define estimates, and forecast dependencies amp; risks for extractor implementation
- Deep-dive analysis of any website’s execution to optimize extractor efficiency and workaround potential blocking strategies
- Maintain and oversee large code repositories. Enforce the best practices, promoting modularization and reusability
- Work together with other project team members on optimisation and technical upskilling
Requirements
- You have a rock-solid understanding of technology and are a bit of a data nerd
- Strong expertise with JavaScript, Python (3, Pandas), jq, Xpath, Regex, HTTPS
- Good hands-on experience on AWS, Github, ReDash
- Strong data analysis and SQL skills
- Confident and clear communicator with attention to detail
- Strong understanding of best coding practices and standards
- Worked on few projects in web-scrapping domain (a major advantage)
- Quick learner - Builds skills in technical areas which support the deployment and integration of the Import.io solution, including advanced data extraction and workflow API design knowledge.
- Is a self-starter, prioritizing on getting the right tasks done first, and ability to work remotely with little to no supervision.
- You thrive in a fast moving, fast growing, startup environment
- You are a highly skilled multitasker and are incredibly organized
Benefits
We provide competitive compensation, generous benefits and a professional atmosphere. This is a very collaborative and inclusive work environment where individuals strong on aptitude and attitude will have an opportunity to grow their professional careers through working with some of the most advanced technology and talented developers in the business.