Backend Developer for Intellectually Honest Discourse
(1+ years exp)0.5% – 2.0%
Published: 3 weeks ago
Fiskkit
News discussion in structured data
Job Location
Job Type
CofounderVisa Sponsorship
Not AvailableHires remotely
Everywhere
Relocation
AllowedSkills
Python
PHP
DevOps
Laravel
AWS
The Role
Seeking skilled developer comfortable with data to power critical article scraping, analysis algorithms and core site scalability.
Responsibilities:
- Build and own REST APIs
- Optimize scraping to support accurate article data.
- Develop and tune statistical test of significance to fact-check all online news.
- Ensure site stability and scalability.
Qualifications:
- Passionate about using skills to build social good through innovations in public discourse
- REST based API experience.
- Ability to learn quickly and develop expertise in configuring crawlers and feeds. Knowledge of web crawling/scraping technologies is a plus.
- Attitude to thrive & communicate well in high-productive, customer-centric environment.
- Knowledge of DOM (Document Object Model), MySQL and regular expressions.
- Knowledge of or experience with at least one of PHP or Python, preferably both.
- Four-year technical college degree. BS Computer Science preferred.
Bonus:
- Experience with Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning.
Additional salary to follow upon funding.
Responsibilities:
- Build and own REST APIs
- Optimize scraping to support accurate article data.
- Develop and tune statistical test of significance to fact-check all online news.
- Ensure site stability and scalability.
Qualifications:
- Passionate about using skills to build social good through innovations in public discourse
- REST based API experience.
- Ability to learn quickly and develop expertise in configuring crawlers and feeds. Knowledge of web crawling/scraping technologies is a plus.
- Attitude to thrive & communicate well in high-productive, customer-centric environment.
- Knowledge of DOM (Document Object Model), MySQL and regular expressions.
- Knowledge of or experience with at least one of PHP or Python, preferably both.
- Four-year technical college degree. BS Computer Science preferred.
Bonus:
- Experience with Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning.
Additional salary to follow upon funding.
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