Junior Crawl Engineer

Description

About Us:

Hanzo is solving the single biggest challenge in above-board compliance and litigation today -- contextual investigation, capture, and preservation of dynamic web content. Through one sophisticated platform, we capture and replicate team messaging data, social media engagement, and interactive web content then preserve it in its native format for analysis and review.Launched in 2009, Hanzo serves teams at PayPal, Twitter, Koch, Facebook, LinkedIn, eBay, T. Rowe Price, Wells Fargo, Allianz, Ameriprise, and many other firms across the globe. You can meet our forward-thinking customer base here: https://www.hanzo.co/customer-success-stories

Key Responsibilities:

• Daily operation and fulfillment of time sensitive requests from customers
• Work on crawler operations, diagnosing crawler challenges and working to resolve them
• Working within our process including updating our issue tracking system
• Translating the feedback from operations into software development to enhance our technology-base
• Maintaining and enhancing existing software (both internal products and our open source projects)
• Communicating systematically and at the right time
• Working proactively, enthusiastically seeking problems in the software and systems and finding solutions
• Holding responsibility for completion of on-going time-critical day-to-day tasks.

Requirements

• 1 year of experience or equivalent in a software dev/ops production environment
• Experience in Python and Javascript or other programming/scripting languages
• Demonstrated ability to write quality code
• Demonstrated ability to understand and work with other people's code
• Demonstrated ability to solve technical problems
• Understanding of Regular Expressions
• Experience of Unix or Linux including knowledge of tools like grep, find and awk
• In depth understanding of HTTP and web technologies
• Ability to diagnose technical problems effectively
• Ability to work in a start-up environment and work on any, sometimes disparate, tasks that need to be completed in a timely manner
• Ability to document software rigorously
• Ability to work with and without supervision
• Ability to be team player
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to actively seek problems and find solutions
• Ability to work remotely and with geographically dispersed team

Benefits

Learn more about Hanzo and the benefits that we offer our employees at: https://www.hanzo.co/about-us/careers

Hanzo is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law. Hanzo will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening.