Backend Developer for Intellectually Honest Discourse

 (1+ years exp)
0.5% – 2.0%
Published: 5 days ago
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Fiskkit

News discussion in structured data

Job Location

Job Type

Cofounder

Visa Sponsorship

Not Available

Hires remotely

Everywhere

Relocation

Allowed

Skills

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.

More about Fiskkit

Funding

AMOUNT RAISED
$21K
FUNDED OVER
1 round
Round
S
$21,000
Seed Aug 2014
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Founders

John Pettus
CEO • 3 years • 11 years
San Francisco
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