Junior Data Engineer (Web Scraping) in Madrid

• Coordinating with our spider developers, QA team and Data Operations team
• Answering requests from other teams in the company
• Maintaining monitoring systems to keep an eye on our spiders
• Developing feeds based on APIs and provided data

• Python, as it's the base of our tech stack at many levels
• How the web works: Requests, responses, user agents, proxies, HTTP protocol, robots.txt
• Linux shell command line: Don't need to be a sysadmin but we expect you to be able to find your way around in your local machine and in any server box
• SQL, as we work with data
• English: A big part of the company doesn't speak spanish, so your job involves some written and spoken communication with people in other countries/timezones and with different cultures

• Scrapy, as every spider is based on this
• Anti-bot measures for crawling and methods to avoid them
• Jira as a regular user

Data Collection team is responsible for collecting massive amounts of data from fashion related websites and placing it into our analytics data repository. Our team takes care of developing and maintaining spiders, monitoring and checking they are running properly, checking the infrastructure is adequate and in good health and, in summary, handling good clean data to go through the rest of the pipeline. Our database already contains more than 600 millions of products, which are refreshed daily, and we see around 1 million of new products every week.

Our motto is "We love data". And we love technology that deals with data because it enables us to do incredible things... things that are valuable for our customers and that sustain a business.

StyleSage is (no longer) a startup founded 6 years ago with offices in New York and Madrid. Madrid is the home for our core technical team of around 20 people. It's an open, diverse and inclusive team of very skilled and talented individuals that are happy to collaborate, share knowledge and enjoy building great software together. We are looking forward to welcoming additional members for this team.

• First and foremost: permanent contract and competitive salary.
• Teams are made of people, not resources.
• Open, diverse and inclusive environment.
• A challenging and fun project to work and grow with, with the latest technologies, best practices and light speed evolution, all in a friendly, relaxed and positive environment.
• Fixed yearly training budget to spend on english classes, courses, books, or conferences.
• Your brand new laptop with OS of your choice (we recommend MacOSX or any flavor of Linux).
• A team of colleagues that will share a lot of knowledge with you (we have weekly in-depth internal talks).
• Fully remote position until it's safe to go back to our office in a co-working space quite close to Avenida de América metro station. We care about our team's health.
• Working hours are flexible and, when we can go back to the office, you can still work remotely when needed, although you will miss the fruit and coffee/tea we stock in there.