Red Points is the fastest-growing Revenue Recovery company in the world. Over 1.000 companies rely on our platform to fight counterfeits, piracy, impersonation, and distribution abuse. They leverage Red Points to take back the revenue that’s rightfully theirs. We are the preferred brand protection partner for some of the leading global brands and content owners in the sporting, entertainment, fashion, editorial, and software industries, and we've now been tagged as "one of Europe's hottest tech companies" by Wired.
We are able to do this through our proprietary technology which employs machine learning and image recognition algorithms to scan the internet and identify all violations and infringements. We then employ our technical and legal expertise to ensure that all infringing data is removed or deindexed. Finally, we provide full visibility and actionable intelligence to our clients through our real-time reporting tool.
With 280+ professionals and offices in New York, Salt Lake City, Barcelona, and Beijing, Red Points has disrupted an industry traditionally led by service providers with a scalable, cost-effective solution.
Be part of the change: join us on our mission to make the Internet a safer place!
Job Description
The role
We are looking for a Python developer to get involved in our tracking technology, libraries, and hundreds of projects that use them, helping us maintain our platform, optimize it, and further improve it.
Please note that this role can only be developed remote or hybrid from Spain.
Responsibilities
Your day to day will be divided between writing good Python and idiomatic code, reviewing pull requests from other team members, debugging complex problems, and also participating in decision-making processes. That is, contributing with your experience in software architecture and design.
Qualifications
Requirements
- 3+ years in a Python Developer position or similar
- The ability to express complex ideas in spoken and written English is crucial as our team is made up of people of 5 different nationalities and it is the language in which we communicate
- Good knowledge of Python, with the ability to write idiomatic and reusable code.
- Experience in object-oriented design, software architecture best practices and patterns, and large-scale application development with maintainability and extensibility in mind.
- Experience with web requests and Python request library.
- Experience with TDD, testing best practices and methodologies: pytest, unittest, mock and answers libraries.
- Experience using docker / docker-compose throughout the entire lifecycle, including development, testing, debugging, QA, CI, and deployment.
Nice to have it, it's a bonus!
- Understanding of the architecture of web applications (including ajax websites) and mastery of the development tools built into the browser, for reverse engineering purposes.
- Inclination towards code optimizations (algorithmic complexity, memory usage).
- Proficiency contributing to shared code bases using git.
- Efficient text processing with regular expressions and XML parsing.
- Experience with selenium / nodejs / phantomjs / splash or any similar software for scraping or automation purposes.
- "I can do it" attitude. We like to hear solutions, not problems.
Additional Information
What we offer
- A fun and fast-paced Startup environment with cool people and team building paid by the company
- Friday and summer reduced working time ( 9 - 15.30)
- Private health insurance covered by the company
- English and Spanish classes
- Flexible Retribution (Cobee)
- Gym membership to access all DIR gyms in Catalunya and selected YogaOne Centres in Barcelona for a ridiculous price
- Remote / hybrid monthly allowance
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We encourage all applicants, regardless of race, religion or belief (if any), color, nationality, ethnic or national origin, gender, gender identity, pregnancy and maternity, sexual orientation, age, marital and civil partnership status, or disability status.
If you think this is the right move for you and you match the description, just apply! We'll get in touch with you for an interview if you are one of the selected candidates.
