Python Web Scraping Engineer - Boston, United States - Planet Technology

Description

Contract Length: 6 months+

Location: Remote (EST hours)

This person needs to be a stand-alone engineer that can be be the Python expert with scraping experience. Their main role is scraping and consolidating data into internal systems.

Position: Python Developer

Our client needs an experienced Python engineer who will be responsible for developing and maintaining Python-based applications and tools that enhance their content. They will work on maintaining and extending their web scraping application for multiple websites including data, image, and document downloads in the Python framework. This person needs a detailed eye and experience with working data, data processing and data ETL.

Day to day:

Translating the structure of websites into specific Python parsers to extract specific data, persist extracted data to data model in PostgreSQL, and other downstream database(s)

Participate in the continued development of the web scraping system

Participate in the data cleansing, process and automation

Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code.

Test and debug code to ensure optimal performance and reliability.

Document code and technical specifications.