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Web Scraping Engineer (PHP): Work from home, UK client, Full-time


Smart Working


Location

Delhi | India


Job description

Location: Permanent Remote Work from Home in India Experience: 5 Years Shift Timings: 12pm - 9:30pm (Summer), 1pm - 10:30pm (Winter)

This role is for a substantial, fast-growing and well respected

UK tech company

who has hired us to exclusively recruit for them. It is a

permanent Work From Home

position and everyday you’ll be working directly as part of their UK team. It is a senior role with real opportunities to learn and develop.

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We are proud to have the highest Glassdoor rating of any business in India.

The business we are representing specialises in helping businesses grow with market leading insight and their mission/aim is to make complex things simple. This is done by building innovative software - it requires a very impressive and highly determined work ethic. They are well known for investing significantly into their staff - this will be a fantastic opportunity to learn and develop new skills.

Key points about our client: Work with clients such as Google, Coca Cola, Samsung, EE, GoCompare and ASDA. This is an extremely exciting opportunity! However, it will need the very best. Have over 120 employees, 60 people in their tech team and the business is over 20 years old. A fast growing and highly profitable business.

They are looking to make a

full time hire for a long term position.

Role and responsibilities Write new web-scrapes to capture data from websites Fix web-scrapes when they break, for example due to website changes Improve web-scrapes for better performance, higher reliability and accuracy Analyse data from web-scrapes to ensure that it is complete and accurate Collaborate in a team of web-scraping engineers, product managers and Data Quality Analysts to ensure “360° quality” in the data we scrape and manage.

Required skills and experience Really good communication and interpersonal skills. Doing this job well requires close collaboration with Data Quality Analysts, and it’s vital that web-scraping engineers have very strong abilities (a) in understanding issues raised by the DQAs, and (b) in communicating and explaining issues, asking follow-up questions in a precise and clear manner. An ability to understand complex data-sets and data requirements. Our data collection requirements are complex, and a successful Web Scraping Engineer will need the ability to quickly grasp the underlying logic behind these requirements. Comfortable working with websites in many different languages. Beyond having fluent and clear English, we don’t require our engineers to speak many different languages — but they must be able to work with websites in any European or east-Asian language using common sense and Google translate.

Desired skills and experience A strong understanding of and experience in online retail (e-commerce) is quite important in this role. Experience in scraping data from smartphone apps is a plus, but not 100% essential. Knowledge of using proxies, IP-switching services, etc., in a web-scraping context is also helpful.

Job perks Work life balance: You will work fixed hours and will never have to work on weekends again Laptop provided Full medical insurance provided Learn and Grow: Learn from highly skilled UK colleagues and other Smart Workers in our active and useful forums Significant signing on bonus Become part of the Smart Working family: Take part in games and quizzes, network with like minded, ambitious and friendly colleagues

About Us:

Smart Working recruits excellent people to work full time, remotely and directly for UK businesses on a long term basis.

Once you pass the interview process with Smart Working you will be introduced to our UK client. We are here to help and support you through the entire application process.

If you are looking to grow, learn and develop professionally then working at Smart Working is the right place for you. Come and join our family and accelerate your career.

We welcome you to add or message any of our staff on LinkedIn to ask any questions about working here. We recommend reading some of Smart Working’s Glassdoor reviews - you will see what a trusted and supportive employer we are.

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