Web Scraping Engineer (Contractor Role)

TN United Kingdom
Greater London
2 months ago
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Hey Savi

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Greater London, United Kingdom

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Posted:

03.03.2025

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17.04.2025

Job Description:About Hey Savi

We’re a fully female-founded company on a mission to change the way people search and shop online for fashion…forever! We’re going to spark a new era of fashion discovery, igniting confidence in everybody and every body, and to create a world where fashion confidence starts with “Hey Savi…”.

Hey Savi is at the beginning of an exciting journey and we’re looking for top talent to join our team. Unlike many start-ups we’re well funded, have a detailed business and financial plan, and are looking for experienced, passionate professionals to join us in creating and scaling a game-changing business.

So if you want a role where you will make a major impact and want to be a part of a team of women building an incredible product and experience for other women, come join us and make the most Savi move of your career!

About the Role

We’re looking for an experienced Web Scraping Engineer to take charge of implementing, maintaining, and scaling our content ingestion processes. This contractor role is perfect for someone who thrives on building scalable web scraping solutions, and maintaining smooth production operations. You will solve complex challenges with creativity and precision while upholding the highest data quality standards.

Key Responsibilities

  • Implement and Maintain Web Scraping Scripts:Develop robust and efficient scraping scripts for content ingestion, focusing on scaling operations to support high-concurrency processes across various fashion retailers.
  • Optimize Production Workflows:Oversee production ingestion pipelines, monitoring queues, addressing failed jobs, and ensuring seamless operation.
  • Ensure Data Integrity:Keep scripts relevant and efficient, introducing methods for automatically identifying slow or failing operations and enabling quick recovery to maintain seamless data ingestion and quality.
  • Collaborate Across Teams:Work closely with product and engineering teams to align ingestion strategies with business goals.

At Hey Savi, we leverage a modern stack to support our platform. We seek experience with:

  • Essential - Main Languages & Frameworks:Python, Scrapy, Playwright, BeautifulSoup, Selenium.
  • Ideal - DevOps and Cloud Infrastructure:Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Workflows, with familiarity in AWS (ECS, SQS, S3, RDS), Terraform, and observability patterns and tools considered valuable.

Ways of Working

  • Product Mindset and Customer Focus:You’re passionate about creating meaningful experiences that address real user needs. You have a strong desire to understand customer behaviour and deliver solutions that inspire confidence and delight, keeping a critical eye on available data to evaluate outcomes of each development iteration.
  • Adaptable and Resourceful Problem Solver:You learn quickly and adjust to new context, tools, and technologies. You’re comfortable experimenting and pivoting when needed to find the best solution. You approach challenges with no pre-established solution with curiosity and independence, seeking out viable options and taking ownership of the whole process.
  • Collaborative Team Player:You thrive in a collaborative environment and enjoy working closely with cross-functional teams to achieve shared goals.
  • Effective Communicator:You excel at conveying information clearly, telling compelling stories, and influencing diverse audiences. Whether collaborating with technical teams or engaging non-technical stakeholders, you ensure alignment, understanding, and impact across different contexts and backgrounds.

Contract role. No benefits included. Sponsorship not possible.

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