Senior Python Engineer (with Scraping)

For our customer author of the most widely used solution to recover digital revenue, we are looking for a Senior Python Engineer. 

Over 1.000 companies rely on their platform to fight counterfeits, piracy, impersonation, and distribution abuse. Company has 270+ professionals and offices in New York, Barcelona, Beijing, and Salt Lake City. 

Red Points’ platform utilizes Artificial Intelligence (AI) to automatically detect and remove IP infringements online 24/7. Through automation rules or just one click on a validation card, our technology can enforce intellectual property rights and remove issues from global online marketplaces, social media networks, websites and other online channels.

The role

We are looking for a Python Engineer to get involved in our tracking technology, libraries, and hundreds of projects that use them, helping us maintain our platform, optimize it, and further improve it.

Responsibilities:

Your day to day will be divided between writing good Python and idiomatic code, reviewing pull requests from other team members, debugging complex problems, and also participating in decision-making processes. That is, contributing with your experience in software architecture and design.

Requirements:

• 4+ years in a Python Developer position or similar
• The ability to express complex ideas in spoken and written English is crucial as our team is made up of people of 5 different nationalities and it is the language in which we communicate
• Good knowledge of Python, with the ability to write idiomatic and reusable code.
• Experience in object-oriented design, software architecture best practices and patterns, and large-scale application development with maintainability and extensibility in mind.
• Experience with web requests and Python request library.
• Experience with TDD, testing best practices and methodologies: pytest, unittest, mock and answers libraries.
• Experience using docker / docker-compose throughout the entire lifecycle, including development, testing, debugging, QA, CI, and deployment. 
• Experience working in the Agile environment (we use Kanban board) 

Tech stack:

• Python, AWS, MySQL / SQLAlchemy, Snowflake / Redshift Airflow / Celery / RabbitMQ / Luigi, Redis, Scrapy, IDOL for data interfaces and schema, Sepia config system

Nice to have: 

• Understanding of the architecture of web applications (including ajax websites) and mastery of the development tools built into the browser, for reverse engineering purposes.
• Inclination towards code optimizations (algorithmic complexity, memory usage).
• Proficiency in contributing to shared code bases using git.
• Efficient text processing with regular expressions and XML parsing.
• Experience with selenium / nodejs / phantomjs / splash or any similar software for scraping or automation purposes.