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\nScrapinghub is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to develop and grow a new web crawling and extraction SaaS.\n\nThe new SaaS will include our recently released AutoExtract which provides an API for automated e-commerce and article extraction from web pages using Machine Learning. AutoExtract is a distributed application written in Java, Scala and Python; components communicate via Apache Kafka and HTTP, and orchestrated using Kubernetes.\n\nYou will be designing and implementing distributed systems: large-scale web crawling platform, integrating Deep Learning based web data extraction components, working on queue algorithms, large datasets, creating a development platform for other company departments, etc. - this is going to be a challenging journey for any backend engineer!\n\nAs a Senior Backend Engineer, you will have a large impact on the system we’re building, the new SaaS is still in the early stages of development.\n\nJob Responsibilities:\n\n\n* Work on the core platform: develop and troubleshoot Kafka-based distributed application, write and change components implemented in Java, Scala and Python.\n\n* Work on new features, including design and implementation. You should be able to own and be responsible for the complete lifecycle of your features and code.\n\n* Solve distributed systems problems, such as scalability, transparency, failure handling, security, multi-tenancy.\n\n\n\n\nRequirements\n\n\n* 3+ years of experience building large scale data processing systems or high load services\n\n* Strong background in algorithms and data structures.\n\n* Strong track record in at least two of these technologies: Java, Scala, Python, C++. 3+ years of experience with at least one of them.\n\n* Experience working with Linux and Docker.\n\n\n\n\n\n* Good communication skills in English.\n\n* Computer Science or other engineering degree.\n\n\n\n\nBonus points for:\n\n\n* Kubernetes experience\n\n* Apache Kafka experience\n\n* Experience building event-driven architectures\n\n* Understanding of web browser internals\n\n* Good knowledge of at least one RDBMS.\n\n* Knowledge of today’s cloud provider offerings: GCP, Amazon AWS, etc.\n\n* Web data extraction experience: web crawling, web scraping.\n\n* Experience with web data processing tasks: finding similar items, mining data streams, link analysis, etc.\n\n* History of open source contributions\n\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n
No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Senior, Engineer, Backend, Amazon, Cloud, Scala, API, SaaS, Apache and Linux jobs that are similar:\n\n
$70,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n
💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
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