PriceHubble is a PropTech company, set to radically improve the understanding and transparency of real estate markets based on data-driven insights. We aggregate and analyse a wide variety of data, run big data analytics and use state-of-the art machine learning to generate stable and reliable valuations and predictive analytics for the real estate market. We are headquartered in Zürich, with offices in Paris, Prague, Berlin, Hamburg, Vienna, Amsterdam and Tokyo. We work on international markets, are backed by world-class investors and treasure a startup environment with low bureaucracy, high autonomy and focus on getting things done.
Your team:
Data at PriceHubble is:
- Made of almost 35 engineers (25% of the company) and growing, focused on Data Engineering, Data Science and Data Acquisition.
- The backbone of any PriceHubble product, by orchestrating dozens of daily and hourly data pipelines and scrapers with millions of geospatial data points
- Working with state-of-the-art technologies such as Spark on k8s, Tensorflow, Kubernetes, Google Cloud Platform, Airflow, Docker, Scrapy.
- An international team with engineers working from Paris, Zurich, Berlin, Hamburg and remotely from EU*
Yourresponsibilities:
- Development of scrapers
- Automate the deployment of scrapers on a cloud architecture
- Build tools lowering the cost of developing scrapers on a new website
- Define strategies for monitoring the validity of the extracted data
- Improve and widen the team’s arsenal for avoiding banning
- Craft and test strategies to optimize the calls made to a website
- Debug and maintain scrapers
Requirements
Background:
- BSc in Computer Science or equivalent
- At least 2 years of experience in the industry
- An experience in web crawling
- Proficiency in Python and Scrapy
Nice to haves:
- Puppeteer / Splash knowledge
- Familiarity with software engineering best practices (clean code, code review, test-driven development, ...) and version control systems
- Understanding of basic data structures and algorithms
- Familiarity with cloud computing technologies and our tech stack (GCP, Kubernetes, Docker and Airflow)
- JS knowledge
Soft skills:
- You want to work in a fast, high-growth startup environment
- You like beautiful software and not just software that solves a problem
- You like to learn from your colleagues and share your knowledge and experience
- You are comfortable working in English; you have a great read, good spoken command of it
* We are interested in every qualified candidate who is eligible to work in the European Union but we are not able to sponsor visas.
Benefits
Join an ambitious and hungry team and enjoy the following benefits:
Competitive salary because we always want to attract the best talents.
Learning amp; Development program - We want you to feel happy, confident about improving your skills, experience level as well as your personal development success.
Very well-located offices with a great remote work policy and the possibility to work from different places.
Flexible working hours and work life balance.