Senior Python Software Engineer

Positi**on**: Senior Python Software Engineer

Type: Freelance Full-Time

Shift Schedule: 9 am - 5 pm UK time or 10 am - 6 pm UK Time

**Ample opportunity to grow with the company as we scale.**

Mandatory Pre-requisites
- More than 2 years of relevant experience as a Senior Python Software Engineer
- Need to install an RMM, MDM, and EDR on their laptops to ensure we are compliant from a cybersecurity standpoint
- Must have their own laptop/desktop which meets minimum qualifications:

- Processor - Core i5 or higher, RAM - 8GB or higher
- Bandwidth Requirements Minimum
- Download Speed: at least 6 Mbps; Upload Speed: at least 6 Mbps.
- A quiet, private place in your home where you can work without background noise and without interruption.

About us

1840 & Company is a globally managed marketplace for vetted professional

resources and outsourcing solutions. We proactively curate a global marketplace of

freelance marketers, developers, and finance professionals. Additionally,

1840 and Company delivers managed outsourcing solutions such as contact

Centers and back-office solutions are currently from a work-from-home model. At

1840 & Company, we rely on knowledgeable professionals to interact with our

valued customers when they have questions or concerns

What we are looking for:
To support our ambitious growth plans, we're looking for a Senior Python Software Engineer to join our remote-first cross-functional tech team of engineers, and data scientists & ML specialists.

We have developed a core document-processing capability for a rapidly expanding corpus of published regulations and supported regulatory themes. Your role will be to work closely with tech leadership to roll out the crucial organisational tooling which facilitates it — for internal stakeholders such as crawler engineers, annotators, regulatory analysts, and data scientists — and the customer-facing APIs which realise its value to paying customers & end-users.

Qualifications:

- More than 2 years of industry experience writing code in any programming language, and an appreciation of industry best practices, such as automated testing, code reviews, and CI/CD.
- Experience writing reliable and maintainable web crawlers using a popular scraping framework.
- Solid grasp of web technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript and web requests, as well as an appreciation of the HTTP spec and REST APIs.
- Experience parsing and querying various data formats, such as HTML (using CSS selectors and XPath), XML and JSON.
- A willingness to work collaboratively with regulatory analysts and other teams that depend on scraped regulatory content.

Nice to have:

- Solid grasp of Python 3 and JavaScript programming languages.
- Experience with implementing spiders using the Scrapy framework.
- Experience running spiders in production and monitoring scrapers with tools such as Sentry and Datadog.
- A willingness to mentor more junior engineers in the team.

About you:

- You're experienced in owning solutions to complex problems and relish the opportunity to learn new skills on the job
- You enjoy working with tech leaders to turn high-level plans into more detailed technical components and be comfortable working in an agile way to deliver working software
- You’re outcome orientated. You’ll take satisfaction from seeing the results of your work in the hands of internal stakeholders and external users
- You’re purpose driven. You want to help us make the world of regulation work better

Soft Skills
- Predisposition for teamwork
- Management and Leadership Skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Problem-solving and detail-oriented skills
- Want to learn

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