Scrapinghub is looking for a frontend engineer to join our platform team to work on Portia, our open source visual scraper. Portia is part of the Scrapinghub platform, which powers crawls of over 3 billion pages a month. You will collaborate closely with the platform, product and growth teams to design, build and test new features.

Are you interested in building products used by thousands of users, including data scientists, marketers and journalists? Do you like working in a company with a strong open source foundation? Scrapinghub helps companies turn web content into useful data with a cloud-based web crawling platform, off-the-shelf datasets, and turn-key web scraping services.

Join us in making the world a better place for web crawler developers with our team of top talented engineers working remotely from more than 30 countries.

Responsibilities

• Interact with Product Managers and Designers to think about and architect new features.

• Work side to side with other frontend and backend engineers to build new features for our platform products.

• Help identify, debug and fix problems arising on Scrapinghub’s platform, leveraging the work with both platform and sysadmin team members.

• Identify and resolve performance and scalability issues.

Scrapinghub’s platform has been growing tremendously over the past couple of years but there are still a lot of big projects waiting in the pipeline, and in this role you would be a key part of that process. Sound like fun? Here’s what we’re looking for: