Casafari

We are seeking an energetic Data Collection Intern to join our team and grow alongside us. We are on a mission to bring transparency to the real estate market by building the world's cleanest and most comprehensive database. 

You will receive training in the required tools and systems that you will be required to use.

Responsibilities:

• Requirements:
  • Understanding of CSS, HTML, and regular expressions
  • The desire to learn and grow
  • Strong quantitative analytical skills
  • Intermediate English skills
• Nice to have:
  • Ability to query with SQL
  • Basic Python
• What should be done:
  • Data exploration and preparation
  • Data collection and integration
  • Data quality monitoring and analysis

Requirements :

• BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent

What we offer:

• Mentorship
• Great datasets
• Fast growing products and business
• Clear added business value
• Achievement-based performance evaluation
• Growth-focused mindset
• Autonomy - clear added value to the team and company
• Awesome team - the chance to work with smart and ambitious people from all over the world

Required languages  ​​English B1 - Intermediate  Ukrainian Native

About Casafari

We solve chaos and information asymmetry in real estate by building the cleanest and most complete real estate database with applications for professionals to organize the market into an efficient ecosystem to enable and accelerate deals in a transparent and safe environment.

By consolidating and professionalizing fragmented rental markets, we increase the availability of efficient and affordable living thus helping investors and governments solve the housing and land crisis, achieve sustainability, equality, and better consumer protection.

Only exponential technologies and mindset can solve the persistent global grand challenge and bring a positive impact on the constantly accelerating world.

We are the only company that is focused on the exponential growth in real estate across multiple countries by using machine learning to

• collect and update hundreds of millions of data points from 30,000+ sources every day,

• develop infinitely scalable NLP data services in several languages,

• deduplicate listings of the same property with different prices and other information,

• build the biggest property sourcing platform in all asset classes to enable and accelerate deal flow for all real estate professionals, and real-time market analytics with instant property valuations with several interfaces (web applications, API, Excel, lead qualification widget).

Our applications are a painkiller for real estate professionals in all asset classes. With more than 1,500 companies and all the biggest brands being our clients, we form the biggest and most organized B2B ecosystem in real estate in Europe.

CASAFARI is operating in Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal with offices in Madrid, Algarve, Lisbon and Kharkiv. Our investors are world's leading funds that backed multiple unicorns.

The team consists of 250+ people from 25+ countries.

A Python Developer is responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining software applications using Python. 

The role can vary based on the industry and project type, including web development, data engineering, automation, artificial intelligence, and backend services.

Our Tech Stack

• Core: Python 3.11+, Django 4.1
• Browser Automation & Scraping: Selenium, Playwright, Aiohttp, BeautifulSoup4
• Databases & Caching: MySQL, Redis, Elasticsearch
• Data & Validation: Pydantic, Pandas
• Infrastructure: Docker, Docker Compose
• Task Queue: Celery + Django Celery Beat
• Protocols: gRPC

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain applications using Python and frameworks like Django or Flask.
• Build and support web scrapers and automation scripts using Selenium, Playwright, and aiohttp.
• Implement caching strategies and manage background task brokers using Redis.
• Design data schemas and validate incoming data using Pydantic.
• Write and optimize SQL queries for MySQL.
• Deploy and run applications in containerized environments (Docker).
• Collaborate with the team to integrate Elasticsearch for efficient data retrieval.

Competencies:

• Python 3 Proficiency: Solid understanding of OOP, data structures, and typing.
• Django Framework: Experience with ORM, Views, and Admin panel customization.
• Redis: Understanding of key-value stores, basic data structures (strings, lists, sets), and how it works as a message broker.
• Browser Automation: Hands-on experience with Selenium or Playwright.
• Docker: Ability to wrap applications in containers and use docker-compose.
• Pydantic: Experience creating models for data validation and serialization.
• SQL (MySQL): Understanding of relational database concepts (JOINs, indexes).
• Git: Comfortable with standard workflows (branches, pull requests).

Nice to Have:

• Experience with Elasticsearch (DSL).
• Familiarity with data analysis libraries (Pandas, NumPy).
• Understanding of asynchronous programming (asyncio, aiohttp).
• Basic knowledge of gRPC / Protobuf.
• Experience with Poetry package manager.

What we offer:

• Mentorship
• Great datasets
• Fast growing products and business
• Clear added business value
• Achievement-based performance evaluation
• Growth focused mindset
• Autonomy - clear added value to the team and company
• Awesome team - the chance to work with smart and ambitious people from all over the world