Senior Python Software Engineer

Positi**on**: Senior Python Software EngineerType: Freelance Full-TimeShift 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 us1840 & Company is a globally managed marketplace for vetted professionalresources and outsourcing solutions. We proactively curate a global marketplace offreelance marketers, developers, and finance professionals. Additionally,1840 and Company delivers managed outsourcing solutions such as contactCenters and back-office solutions are currently from a work-from-home model. At1840 & Company, we rely on knowledgeable professionals to interact with ourvalued customers when they have questions or concernsWhat 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 betterSoft Skills- Predisposition for teamwork- Management and Leadership Skills- Excellent communication skills- Problem-solving and detail-oriented skills- Want to learnB3vs0l3sVi