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\nAbout the Job:\n\n\nYour key objective will be to advance Scrapinghub’s knowledge of web technologies and web scraping best practices.\n\nThis is not a production role. Instead, you’ll be given the time and resources to iteratively, and with scientific rigor, test hypotheses and produce a research-backed knowledge base for other developers at Scrapinghub.\n\nDespite not working on specific customer projects, your work will help fuel growth across all of Scrapinghub’s Data business (Professional Services & Data on Demand). Your measures of success will be your ability to iterate quickly and produce assets that are useful to other Shubbers.\n\n\nJob Responsibilities:\n\n\n\n\n* Create and execute well designed experiments (repeatable, multiple treatments, testable variables, controls, replication) to learn more about how to best complete web scraping projects\n\n* Produce well written, indexed, reports of your findings (similar to publishing to an academic journal, though not nearly as lengthy)\n\n* Propose new experiments to run\n\n* Work with the Team Lead to prioritize the backlog of experiments\n\n* Maintain best practice guides for other Shubbers who will be implementing client solutions based on your findings\n\n* Propose changes to Scrapinghub’s other products (Crawlera, Scrapy Cloud, etc) or Scrapy itself based on your findings\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJob Requirements:\n\n\n\n\n* Excellent communication in written English.\n\n* A strong understanding of the Scientific Method and the ability to continuously implement a process that follows it with rigor.\n\n* Take a logical, measurement-backed approach to prioritizing projects, and enjoy working with others that do the same.\n\n* Familiarity with techniques and tools for crawling, extracting and processing data, asynchronous communication and distributed systems.\n\n* A strong knowledge of Python along with a broad general programming background; strong problem solver.\n\n* Enjoy working across several teams and communicating with your end customer (other Shubbers)\n\n\n\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n
No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Python and Python jobs that are similar:\n\n
$80,000 — $130,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n
๐ฐ 401(k)\n\n๐ Distributed team\n\nโฐ Async\n\n๐ค Vision insurance\n\n๐ฆท Dental insurance\n\n๐ Medical insurance\n\n๐ Unlimited vacation\n\n๐ Paid time off\n\n๐ 4 day workweek\n\n๐ฐ 401k matching\n\n๐ Company retreats\n\n๐ฌ Coworking budget\n\n๐ Learning budget\n\n๐ช Free gym membership\n\n๐ง Mental wellness budget\n\n๐ฅ Home office budget\n\n๐ฅง Pay in crypto\n\n๐ฅธ Pseudonymous\n\n๐ฐ Profit sharing\n\n๐ฐ Equity compensation\n\nโฌ๏ธ No whiteboard interview\n\n๐ No monitoring system\n\n๐ซ No politics at work\n\n๐ We hire old (and young)\n\n
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