Content Scraping Developer

We’re looking for a Content Scraping Developer who is interested in working with scientific data and willing to help build a powerful platform in the medical field.

Our client is an ambitious startup based in Gothenburg, Sweden. Their product is a cloud-based platform that enables science professionals to work smarter with the right external stakeholders, including scientific experts, investigators, medical institutions, customers or competitors. It is empowered by a machine-learning architecture currently based on source data from research publications, clinical trials, grant funding, industry payments and more.

In our collaboration model, you will work closely and communicate directly with the development team on the client-side as well as with the team in Ivano-Frankivsk. 

Responsibilities

• Scraping websites, as well as big pdf-documents

• Working with a big amount of data

• Close cooperation with the team on making consistent decisions 

What we’re looking for

• Previous experience in HTML / API /  XML scraping

• Knowledge of Python or/and JavaScript (or other programming language) 

• Knowledge of CSS/Xpath Selectors

• Understanding of REST, Ajax

• Writing Regular Expressions

• Background with Selenium or other Automation Testing Tools

• Good skills to handle big amounts of data

• Responsible and self-organized person

• Excellent communication skills 

• Intermediate English level

Bonus

• Previous experience with Scrapy/BeautifulSoup or other scraping tools

• Previous experience in scripting and process automation

• Previous experience in using GitHub

• You love borshch

Who are you?

There is such a thing as being a true Beetroot.

We value people who are hungry for improvement. Meaning, you always try to be the most caring, professional and progressive version of yourself. Your skills and experience are important factors, but your personality, approach and improvement drive are what will make the difference. We hope you’re a «team person», that you take responsibility for your work, pragmatically solve problems, and that you’re a highly motivated individual overall. You’re self-going, well organized, efficient and with a very good sense of priorities.

Now that we’ve covered the basics, let’s talk some more about us!

About Beetroot

We’re a Swedish-Ukranian IT company, building dream teams of developers and designers for companies around the globe. Being an emerging company, co-producing with other emerging companies, we work with start-up seedlings, through to huge oak trees. In essence, we’re the cannonball for our client’s success. With over 250 team members, Beetroot is a family–we’re a tightly knit bunch who love spending time together. We want to provide a homely working environment that’s packed full of trust, equality and steaming bowls of borsch!

Oh, and we give great perks. Which means…

• Work with our minimum hierarchy, family-feel team in a cozy, well-equipped office

• Great networking opportunities with international clients

• Personal development and professional growth opportunities

• Competitive salary, paid vacation, medical top-up and social benefits

• Team building activities like Beetroot breakfasts & movie nights… and more!

• English lessons with native speakers

• Discounted Beetroot Academy courses for employees and their family members

• Yearly allowance to participate in competence-enhancing events

What are you waiting for? Shoot us over your CV in English!