Web-Scrapping Developer

Role Overview

• As a member of the team, your primary responsibility will involve the development of new integrations with bookmaker websites and APIs.
• This entails utilizing Golang to leverage internal libraries and tooling specifically tailored for these integrations.
• The platform stack primarily depends on Golang and Postgres, deployed through Docker, with a CI/CD stack integrating GitHub Actions.
• There is a strong emphasis on continuous integration and deployment, with a focus on investing in integration testing and other tools to enable frequent and secure releases.
• Open-source solutions are actively integrated into the workflow, and contributions to the community are encouraged.
• The company has a widespread software engineering experience, fostering a robust engineering culture that prioritizes best practices.
• Develop highly reliable, low-latency components in our distributed system.
• Write API integrations and website scrapers for connections to external trading
  venues, bookmakers, and data sources.
• Produce clean, testable code that is maintainable and robust.
• Join and shape the discussion on future and existing architecture.
• Work directly with product owners.

Candidate Requirements

• Strong academic record and a degree with a high computing or mathematical content e.g. (but not limited to) Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or Physics.
• Experience with Golang or with other systems languages like Java, C++, C# etc used for high-performance back-end software.
• Strong knowledge of modern web technologies (e.g. Javascript, HTML/CSS, websockets,JSON etc) and how to reverse engineer/scrape them.
• Experience with Postgre, Docker, CI/CD and Github.
• Web and web scraping technologies including a thorough understanding of what browsers do to get data to your screen.
• Broad exposure to modern application architectures built around databases and messaging systems
• Experience in distributed systems, test frameworks, continuous integration and also monitoring and debugging of highly available components.
• You should be happy traversing the stack as far down as you need to go to figure something out.
• Proficient on Linux platforms with knowledge of various scripting languages.
• Takes pride in engineering excellence and encourages best practice in others.
• A systematic, analytical approach to tackling problems and designing solutions.
• Strong communication & teamwork skills in a predominately remote environment, especially written communication

Nice to Have

• Golang
• Experience with browser emulation technologies like Puppeteer is a bonus although not essential.

Salary, Incentive, and Benefits Packages

• Competitive Salary
• Benefits package include HMO, training allowance, gym or food allowance, educational assistance for dependents and more
• An annual salary increase, as laid out in the contract
• Free food and drinks are provided in the office
• Company trips