Python Developer / Data Acquisition Team
Can you get data from any website at scale? Do you want to work at a high-growth startup in the AI domain? Then we might be the right fit for you!
About Forloop
At Forloop we offer a Market Intelligence solution for consumer brands to get full insights into the online channels.
Clients include brands like Lindt, P&G, and others.
Forloop was founded in 2021, and is based in Stockholm and Prague with a remote-friendly culture. Backed by renowned investors including APX, Rockstart Ventures and Depo Ventures.
Here you will work with an ambitious team with backgrounds in data, machine learning and startups. And now, you can be part of the journey!
Tasks
Responsibilities:
Customers are mainly within Consumer Brands / FMCG. The insights they get are around prices, promotions, and online visibility from 1000’s of e-commerce shops around the world.
The Data Acquisition team plays a pivotal role in catering for that to happen.
You’ll work closely with the Data Engineering and Data Science teams.
You’re role will mainly include:
- Code and acquire data: Design, code, and evolve systems/approaches that scrape data reliably and cost-effectively at scale, overcoming any challenges in your way.
- Load data into database: Assure loading of data into database / data warehouses at scale and of high quality, cost effectively.
- Maintenance: Take ownership of technical maintenance and incremental upgrades, a critical component of our business operations.
- Cross-team: work with the Data Engineering and Data Science teams.
For this , we put value in these following personal traits:
- Problem Solving: Help tackle challenging issues with innovative solutions, exploring new methods and techniques.
- Collaborate and Learn: Work alongside a dedicated team, gaining insights from their deep knowledge in the retail data domain, and contributing to the team's success.
- Skill Development: Engage in opportunities to grow your technical and professional skills, contributing to a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
- Pursue Quality: Assist in ensuring that all projects are completed to the highest standards, focusing on excellence in execution.
Requirements
Technical Skills Required:
- Web Scraping Knowledge: Experience with web scraping (Requests, Bs4, Playwright) and data processing (Pandas)
- Programming Proficiency: Python and SQL, focusing on data handling.
- Understanding Web Technologies: Knowledge of modern web technologies, antibot protection, network requests.
- Basic knowledge of Docker, Airflow, Linux
- Teamwork and Collaboration: Ability to work well in a team environment and communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical colleagues.
Language Proficiency: Strong verbal and written English skills are required to effectively collaborate across our European team and stakeholders.
Benefits
Benefits
- Have an important role and influence the direction of the company.
- Personal and career development to a leadership role, with a talented and ambitious team, in a dynamic and fast-growing market.
- Access to be forefront of ML tooling, and industry trends. Skills and knowledge that can and will be important for future leaders as more and more companies will make use of data.
- Stock options programme is possible.
- Work with us from Prague, Stockholm, or from anywhere.
Do you want to be a part of our journey? Please apply by clicking the link below!
We believe that bringing people together from different backgrounds, experiences and perspectives makes for a healthy workplace, a more successful business and a better world 🚀.
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