OpenCorporates | Scrapers / bot writers | London, UK (Remote) | Full-time - part-time considered
OpenCorporates is growing, and looking for more great bot and scraper coders – to help fulfill its mission to open up the world's official public information on companies.
We write, run and maintain hundreds of scrapers and bots – bots that integrate with APIs, that download open data dumps. Bots that make sense of messy data and put it into our standardised schema, working with our expert Data Analysts.
We're particularly looking for highly talented bot writers who both understand how to extract data from legacy, messy or plain broken public websites, AND who want to work to help achieve our critical public-benefit mission.
What you'll be doing:
- Support &amp; expand our data pipeline.
You'll write bots to source publicly available data (scraping websites, consuming data published via APIs or CSV, or extracting data from PDFs) in order to create new data feeds, and also help solve problems with our existing feeds
- Maintain high data quality.
You'll compare datasets to their source to verify that the information is complete and error-free. You'll also suggest ways to make our processes more efficient.
Above all we are looking for smart people who we think will fit in well.
This is a full-time position, either in Shoreditch, London, UK, or remote, although we would consider part-time positions for the right applicant. Unfortunately we are unable to offer visa/relocation help for now. Strictly no recruitment agencies.
Salary range:  £38k-£55k
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