Position: Back-end developer (Python/Web scraping)
Company: Ivy Tech
Category: Python
Experience required: 3y
English level: intermediate

The client, based in New York (USA), is an exciting HealthTech Scaleup that offers the most comprehensive, accurate API data platform that is the infrastructure for a future where every patient care decision is convenient, cost-effective, and high-quality.

Built to integrate seamlessly into existing healthcare workflows, it offers a reliable and straightforward way for providers, care navigators, health plans, and digital health solutions to develop and maintain accurate provider directories and competitive networks, simplify referral management, and ensure efficient care navigation — all in one platform.

Their mission is to simplify healthcare. They provide healthcare enterprises with an API layer for accurate data on doctors, insurance plans, and costs & quality of care.

You will have the opportunity to work closely with an international team and grow and develop as a person and a professional as you contribute to the project.

Candidate Must Have:

3+ years of commercial experience as a Python/JS developer
Upper- intermediate English, written/spoken
2 years in web crawling/scraping data from websites and experience using technology such as Scrapy, Selenium, BeautifulSoup and Playwright in the past
Strong background in SQL and relational databases
Strong understanding/experience with EnCaptcha and Proxy services
Ability to adapt to new technologies/frameworks quickly
Experience coming up with creative solutions to complex technical problems
Persistence and drive
Humility. Strong learning mentality. Be open to learning new things
History of communicating effectively with multiple stakeholders
Demonstrated attention to detail and effective use of written communication

Bonus Skills:
Experience with AWS;
Experience with parsing data from PDFs;
Experience utilising Airflow

Why is this a special opportunity:
You will join a small Ukrainian team of Python developers whilst working closely with the US management. This is a great chance to improve English communication skills, learn more about the US business culture and be part of a fast-growing Scaleup that is writing history.
The team is very friendly, open to new ideas and inclusive.

Responsibilities:
You will be responsible for helping the team with data collection by aggregating data and building scrapers (one of the many ways we collect data);
You will be working on solving problems with questions like “How do we get data from this website into a structured sort of data format?”;
The day-to-day will consist of developing and managing data scrapers and will develop new data scrapers that consume data from 100s of healthcare sources.

What We Offer:
Competitive salary based on experience and skills;
The opportunity to work with a modern technology stack and build innovative products long-term (no bench time, no project switching!). Plenty of opportunities for learning and continued career growth;
A great values-based company culture valuing general well-being;
Flexible working: total remote;
A package which includes medical insurance, 20 days of paid annual leave, up to 10 days of paid sick leave (including mental health days) per year;
Western business management and the opportunity to speak English daily;
Corporate events, merchandise, perks and general well-being.