Imagine playing a major role in developing a new SaaS offering? We’re searching for a Data Engineer to create the next generation of Intelligent Web Scrapers to seek out very specific financial data from thousands of data sources, then use Machine Learning & NLP techniques to standardize the data.
This is a key net-new hire for the organization. We need someone to take on these challenges:
- Develop, test and launch automated web scrapers and bots to capture and extract specific financial data from a variety of online publicly available sources
- Design the application to search the Internet for the expected thousands of new, and continually emerging, sources of specific financial data not yet included within our data catalogues
- Using AI and ML techniques, create a comprehensive data catalogue of this financial data
Perks
Why we’re a cool company
- Full benefits package
- We use team collaboration tools to collaborate
- Casual, yet professional environment
- For local candidates, largely work-from-home during the pandemic. Partial WFH afterwards.
- Receptive to candidates across Canada
- Flex time
Some of the Experiences & Background we’d like to see
All the things you’re good at because you’ve done most of these before
- 5-years+ of experience in software development roles with open source technologies in a SaaS environment
- Backend: Python / Django – 5 years min.
- Frontend: Bootstrap, Sass, CSS, HTML, VueJS
- Experience building Restful APIs
- Experience building and the techniques of web scrapers
- Experience with Apache Beam pipelines, Apache Airflow, and Google Dataflow
- ETL experience and productionizing ETL Pipelines. Managed ETL Service – AWS Glue a definite advantage
- 3-years experience with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
- Knowledge of Productionizing ML models
- Experience with NLP
- SQL/PostgreSQL and data model design (logical & physical data models)
- Experience manipulating very large data sets (5Tb and 5T records)
- Experience with Cloud platforms: AWS, Digital Ocean, or GCP required. Experience with Serverless and Virtual Machines
- Effective communication skills
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent
About us
We are 20 year old growing Canadian FinTech company provided consulting services to businesses obtaining government funding.
Coupled with our services, we have developed a unique supporting suite of applications providing us with an unrivaled competitive advantage. Our application provides our clients with visibility into the very complex and hidden $140B data feed of open funding opportunities.
This is a Permanent opportunity.
N E X T S T E P S
If this sounds like you and you’re looking to build your career, then we want to hear from you. Please email your resume to Rick @ SearchVelocity.ca, Subject: Data Engineer
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