Seeking scrappy, skilled developer comfortable with data to power critical scraping performance as well as algorithms to responsible for core site functionality.

Responsibilities:

• Configure crawlers and feeds to support accurate article data.
• Maintain and own REST API
• Fine-tune crawlers and feeds schedules.
• Develop and tune statistical test of significance to fact-check all online news.

Qualifications:

• REST based API experience.
• Ability to learn quickly and develop expertise in configuring crawlers and feeds.Knowledge of web crawling/scraping technologies is a plus.
• Attitude to thrive & communicate well in high-productive, customer-centric environment.
• Passionate about article data quality and quantity.
• Knowledge of DOM (Document Object Model), JavaScript,MySQL and regular expression.
• Knowledge of or experience with at least one programming language (Python, PHP, Java, Perl, etc) preferred.
• Two-year technical college degree.BS Computer Science preferred.
• Experience with Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning is a plus.

Additional salary to follow upon funding.

Equity

0.5 – 2.0