Roles andresponsibilities
* Write new webscrapes to capture data fromwebsites
* Fix webscrapes when they break for exampledue to website changes
* Improve webscrapes for betterperformance higher reliability andaccuracy
* Analyse data from webscrapes to ensure thatit is complete and accurate
* Collaborate in a team ofwebscraping engineers product managers and Data Quality Analysts toensure “360° quality” in the data wescrape and manage.
Required skills andexperience
* PHP 5 years
* Knowledge of Webscraping
* Really good communication and interpersonalskills. Doing this job well requires close collaboration with DataQuality Analysts and it’s vital that webscrapingengineers have very strong abilities (a) in understanding issuesraised by the DQAs and (b) in communicating and explaining issuesasking followup questions in a precise and clearmanner.
* An ability to understand complex datasetsand data requirements. Our data collection requirements are complexand a successful Web Scraping Engineer will need the ability toquickly grasp the underlying logic behind theserequirements.
* Comfortable working with websites in manydifferent languages. Beyond having fluent and clear English wedon’t require our engineers to speak many differentlanguages — but they must be able to work with websitesin any European or eastAsian language using common sense and Googletranslate.