Content Scraping Developer (offline)

Our client is an ambitious startup based in Gothenburg, Sweden. Their product is a cloud-based platform that enables science professionals to work smarter with the right external stakeholders, including scientific experts, investigators, medical institutions, customers or competitors. It is empowered by a machine-learning architecture currently based on source data from research publications, clinical trials, grant funding, industry payments and more.

In our collaboration model, you will work closely and communicate directly with the development team on the client-side as well as with the team in Ivano-Frankivsk.

Responsibilities:
Scraping websites, as well as big pdf-documents
Working with a big amount of data
Close cooperation with the team on making consistent decisions

What we’re looking for:
Previous experience in HTML / API / XML scraping
Knowledge of Python or/and JavaScript (or other programming language)
Knowledge of CSS/Xpath Selectors
Understanding of REST, Ajax
Writing Regular Expressions
Background with Selenium or other Automation Testing Tools
Good skills to handle big amounts of data
Responsible and self-organized person
Excellent communication skills
Intermediate English level

Bonus:
Previous experience with Scrapy/BeautifulSoup or other scraping tools
Previous experience in scripting and process automation
Previous experience in using GitHub
You love borshch!

About Beetroot

We’re a Swedish-Ukranian IT company, building dream teams of developers and designers for companies around the globe. Being an emerging company, co-producing with other emerging companies, we work with start-up seedlings, through to huge oak trees. In essence, we’re the cannonball for our client’s success. With over 400 who love spending time together. We want to provide a homely working environment that’s packed full of trust, equality and steaming bowls of borsch!

Company website:
https://career.beetroot.se/