Ascent Technologies Inc

• Lead the design and implementation of robust, efficient, and large-scale web scraping platforms using Python and associated frameworks. • Mentor junior developers, and provide technical guidance. Conduct code reviews to ensure the delivery of high-quality, maintainable code. • Develop sophisticated strategies to handle and bypass advanced anti-bot countermeasures like CAPTCHAs, Cloudflare, and IP blocking, while ensuring all practices adhere to legal and ethical guidelines and website terms of service. • Collaborate with data analysts and data engineers to define data requirements and ensure seamless integration of scraped data into databases. • Optimize scrapers for speed, performance, and stability; set up real-time monitoring and alerting systems to quickly detect and resolve failures or site changes. • Create clear technical documentation and communicate effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to ensure alignment and manage expectations.

• Collaborate closely with our Product organization to build world-class applications for our customers • Use creativity and independent thinking to solve challenging problems around data scale and service-oriented design • Work with our internal domain experts to create tools and automation that empower them to manage complex, ever-changing data • Help us advance our engineering best practices as we build extensible software • Work closely with teammates to help them level up as engineers