Position: Engineering Manager (Python + Scrapy)
Company: the urge
Category: Python
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper
Published: 2021-01-01T00:00:00+02:00

**Commitment**: Full-time only

**The Company**:
Our team at **the urge** has been acquired by Zip, a global fintech, to build out their online fashion search-engine experience. While we're based in Sydney (Australia), we have offices the Canada, US and the UK.

**About the Role**:
To succeed in this role, you should have 2+ years of experience with Python, experience using microservices, as well as an understanding of the git workflow. 

We use a mix of crawling and product feeds from affiliate networks, so any experience with product feeds as a data source is a plus!

The fashion search-engine at **the urge** relies on the quality of the data that we scrape and enhance before adding it to our fashion dataset. It is therefore imperative that the spiders that are built are of the highest quality.

Currently, we have ~500 crawlers and aim to build even more.

**Requirements**:
• Have experience writing web scrapers in Python (Scrapy)
• Have a minimum of 4 years experience with Python
• Be a fantastic communicator with other engineers & product managers
• Past management experience is a plus, however, we expect that you will be able to lead and guide a team of engineers! 
• 2+ years experience managing a team of developers
• Bonus points for – experience with product feed data sources, AWS

**Career Progression**:
We are growing at lightning speed and hiring across a number of roles. For the right candidate who is motivated and driven to succeed, there is endless potential to progress as well as the possibility of relocation to live and work from one of our global head offices!

**To Apply**:
Please submit the following when applying;

• Your CV or Linkedin profile
• Why do you want to work at the urge?
• Github links (please ensure we are able to access!)

If you are selected to progress further, you will be required to undertake an aptitude test. This helps us identify your attention to detail and ability to learn quickly.

Successful applicants will join our team in Slack, partake in daily and weekly hangouts video calls as required.

We have targets and incentives for both the role and the company and we like to celebrate with monetary bonuses as well as activities such as drinks or lunches paid for by the company.