Senior Software Engineer - Python (Contract)

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Romania
Workplace: RemoteContractFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 4+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Collaboration","Problem-solving","Initiative"]

Senior Software Engineer focused on building a large-scale data ingestion and classification system using Python, web scraping, and search technologies. You will design distributed crawlers, process data from web pages, PDFs, and APIs, and collaborate with ML/NLP teams, deploying on AWS with Spark, Airflow, Kubernetes, and ElasticSearch/OpenSearch.

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3 months ago

Senior Software Engineer - Python (Contract)

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Job Summary

Senior Software Engineer focused on building a large-scale data ingestion and classification system using Python, web scraping, and search technologies. You will design distributed crawlers, process data from web pages, PDFs, and APIs, and collaborate with ML/NLP teams, deploying on AWS with Spark, Airflow, Kubernetes, and ElasticSearch/OpenSearch.
Location: Romania
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Contract
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Build and design large-scale distributed crawling bots and infrastructure that operate in adversarial environments with low operational overhead.
  • •Develop and maintain data pipelines to extract data from web pages, documents, PDFs (OCR), and APIs.
  • •Unify heterogeneous documents into a coherent data schema across varied source formats.
  • •Preprocess and normalize raw data for downstream classification, ML/NLP, and search indexing.
  • •Build APIs to expose structured, classified data via ElasticSearch/OpenSearch and collaborate with ML/NLP teams to integrate classification models into the pipeline.
Travel: High travel

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Health Insurance401kRemote WorkWellness StipendHome OfficeLearning BudgetMaternity Leave

Key Requirements

  • •4+ years of experience in Python with building crawling/scraping solutions at scale.
  • •Experience working with APIs (REST), PDF processing (OCR, Tesseract, PyMuPDF etc.).
  • •Proficiency in data processing & search technologies (ElasticSearch/OpenSearch, NoSQL/SQL databases).
  • •Experience with React
  • •Hands-on experience with AWS or GCP.
Experience:4+ yearsSoftware engineeringWeb scrapingData processingSearch
Skills:CommunicationCollaborationProblem-solvingInitiative
Languages:English
Tech Stack:PythonScrapyAirflowKubernetesAWSSparkElasticSearchOpenSearchReactOCRTesseractPyMuPDF

Company Brief

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Provides cloud-based shop management software for automotive repair businesses, offering workflow management, estimating, parts and inventory, customer communications, integrations, and analytics to streamline operations and improve shop efficiency.
Industry: Automotive
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Growth Stage Startup
Headquarters: Lehi, United States
Founded: 2016
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