Python Developer, FXC Intelligence

• Have 2+ years of commercial Python development experience
• Have a decent knowledge of SQL and a basic understanding of data modelling
• Have solid core Python development skills
• Have an investigative mindset and like reverse engineering
• Can apply problem-solving skills and able to work autonomously
• Prefer to rely on data to back up your decisions, can do basic exploratory data analysis
• Can take responsibility for your tasks, offer initiatives to improve data quality/product, open-minded to learning new tools and solutions

Desirable

• Typical hours are Monday-Friday working GMT/BST with potential on-call support required
• We are looking for a Python Developer to join our Data Ingest team to work on our scrapers and be involved in our migration to an event-driven microservice architecture
• Maintaining existing scrapers and implementing new ones using the company’s internal framework
• Make changes and contribute to improvements in the scraping framework
• Take part in the migration of the current Jenkins-based collection orchestration mechanism to an event-driven microservice architecture
• Perform investigation of issues with collected data in collaboration with our Data Analysts and propose preventive measures to improve the quality of the data
• The Data Ingest team is the oldest team at FXC Intelligence, existing in some form for over six years now
• We provide the platform for collecting unstructured data from open third-party websites and mobile apps and make sure that the data collected corresponds to companies' data quality standards and SLAs
• As the business grows and requirements change, so do we – the platform has survived several iterations and is currently in the process of being migrated to its fourth generation
• The team also maintains over 100 scrapers for different providers of data, which power most of the company’s critical datasets