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Sr. Back-End Engineer, Web Scraping

Mozilla

Engineering & Technology

IT & Telecoms GHS Confidential
4 weeks ago

Job Summary

Fakespot is now part of Mozilla, where our mission to bring trust and transparency back to the eCommerce space is now aligned with ensuring the Internet is a global resource, open and accessible to all. Fakespot leverages machine learning and other state-of-the-art technologies to automatically filter out spurious reviews of products and vendors so consumers can make informed purchasing decisions based on real feedback by real people. We are looking for a mid-level engineer to join the Fakespot team within Mozilla.

  • Minimum Qualification: Degree
  • Experience Level: Senior level
  • Experience Length: 7 years

Job Description/Requirements

What you’ll do: 

  • Creating robust, scalable, highly loaded applications
  • Maintaining and troubleshooting existing applications
  • Identifying and fixing bottlenecks and bugs
  • Maintaining and expanding APIs


What you’ll bring: 

  • 7 years experience as a professional software engineer
  • 3 years experience with web scraping, data extraction, and mining
  • Experience with HTTP/HTTPS proxy, SOCKS5 etc
  • Experience with tools like BeautifulSoup, Selenium, Scrapy and headless browsing to automate intricate data extraction tasks, even from protected or dynamically-loaded web pages.
  • Experience with automated bypassing of common web barriers by leveraging methodologies like proxy rotation, user agent and device fingerprint modification, and CAPTCHA challenges.
  • Product scraping from online retailers and social media
  • Ability to write efficient algorithms, and clean code using modern programming languages
  • Commitment to our values:

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