Description :

Performing Web Scraping using various scraping techniques and then utilizing Pythons Pandas library for data cleaning and manipulation.

Then ingesting the data into a Database/Warehouse, and scheduling the scrapers using Airflow or other tools

Role Overview :

The Web Scraping Team at Alternative Path is seeking a creative and detail-oriented developer to contribute to client projects.

The team develops essential applications, datasets, and alerts for various teams within the client's organization, supporting their daily investment decisions.

The mission is to maintain operational excellence by delivering high-quality proprietary datasets, timely notifications, and exceptional service.

We are seeking someone who is self-motivated, self-sufficient, with a passion for tinkering and a love for automation.

In your role, you will :

- Collaborate with analysts to understand and anticipate requirements.

- Design, implement, and maintain Web scrapers for a wide variety of alternative datasets.

- Perform Data Cleaning, Exploration, Transformation etc. of scraped data.

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand data requirements and implement efficient data processing workflows.

- Author QC checks to validate data availability and integrity.

- Maintain alerting systems and investigate time-sensitive data incidents to ensure smooth day-to-day operations.

- Design and implement products and tools to enhance the Web scraping Platform.

Qualifications :

Must have :

- Bachelor's/masters degree in computer science or in any related field

- 2- 4 years of software development experience

- Strong Python and SQL/Database skills

- Strong expertise in using the Pandas library (Python) is a must

- Experience with web technologies (HTML/JS, APIs, etc.)

- Proven work experience in working with large data sets for Data cleaning, Data transformation, Data manipulation, and Data replacements.

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills

- Aptitude for designing infrastructure, data products, and tools for Data Scientists

Preferred :

- Familiarity with scraping and common scraping tools (Selenium, scrapy, Fiddler, Postman, xpath)