Web Scraping and Data Mining Hacker at Hobo Video

Hobo Video is a vernacular fun video based localized community driven marketplace for billions of generation Z and millennials where everybody can earn.

We are on a mission to make online shopping real via video streaming in a language the audience is most comfortable with and to provide revenue streams to influencers and small sellers by making an ecosystem of video commerce.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Web Scraping and Data Mining Hacker

Location: Abuja (FCT)

Job Description

• We are looking for an intern who would be working on the latest growth hacking concepts and would be converting ideas to real-life growth using technology. We are a hyper-growth data-driven company who highly believes in KPIs and innovative ways of driving business.
• You will be involved in rapid PoC and quick roll-outs of ideas, in fast-paced environments working alongside some of the most talented and smartest people in the industry.

Qualifications

• Someone with a good experience building scalable scraping technology.
• The role involves writing scrapers for different websites and fetching appropriate data at regular intervals.
• Excellent knowledge on Web Crawling/Web scraping in Python is a must
• Should have used some or all scraping modules like Selenium, Scrapy, BrowserMob Proxy, Beautiful soup or URLib, Anaconda, SST – Web Test Framework
• Parsing data such as XML, JSON, HTML
• Experience with Text processing and Text mining.
• Experience with IP rotation is highly preferable.
• Also, the data needs to be cleaned and processed as per given guidelines
• Communicate effectively, both orally and in writing with a globally distributed team

Who Are You?

• Designed and built multiple web scrapers and data pipelines with large volume
• Genuinely excited about technology and worked on projects from scratch
• A highly-motivated individual who thrives in an environment where problems are open-ended.
• Experience with third-party data sourcing via APIs

Application Closing Date
18th December, 2020.