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ScraperWiki: Lead programmer (lean, open data startup)

Python Django Startup Web Ruby Lxc Data Journalism

Liverpool

Description

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ScraperWiki is Silicon Valley style startup, in the North West of England, in Liverpool. We’re changing the world of open data, and how data science is done together on the Internet.

We’re looking for a programmer who’d like to:

Revolutionise the tools for sharing data, and code that works with data, on the Internet.
Take a lead in a lean startup, having good hunches on how to improve things, but not minding when A/B testing means axing weeks of code.

In terms of skills:

Be polyglot enough to be able to learn Python, and do other languages (Ruby, Javascript…) where necessary.
Be able to find one end of a clean web API and a test suite from another.
We’re a small team, so need to be able to do some DevOps on Linux servers.
Desirable – able to make igloos.

About ScraperWiki:

We’ve got funding (Knight News Challenge winners) and are in the brand new field of “data hubs”.
We’re before product/market fit, so it’ll be exciting, and you can end up a key, senior person in a growing company.

Some practical things:

We’d like this to end up a permanent position, but if you prefer we’re happy to do individual contracts to start with.

Must be willing to either relocate to Liverpool, or able to work from home and travel to our office here regularly (once a week). So somewhere nearby preferred.