Associate Engineer - Python

We’re reinventing the market research industry. Let’s reinvent it together.

At Numerator, we believe tomorrow’s success starts with today’s market intelligence. We empower the world’s leading brands and retailers with unmatched insights into consumer behavior and the influencers that drive it.

About The Role

Numerator is currently looking for a Configuration Engineer to join our Data Extraction (DX) team in India (Remote). In this role, you will be responsible for helping to grow and maintain a library of thousands of receipt parsing configurations used by fortune 500 brands and retailers. Day-to-day, you’ll come up with creative solutions to complex problems, and learn new skills to complement your existing abilities.

This is a great role for those who are looking for hands-on experience with high visibility and impact. We welcome fresh ideas and approaches as we constantly aim to improve our development processes. Our team has experience using a wide range of technologies and years of cloud and big data experience. We are always learning and growing, so we can guarantee that you won’t be bored with us! If you are seeking an environment where you get to do meaningful work with other great engineers, then we want to hear from you!

What You Will Get To Do

• Write clean, efficient, thoroughly tested code, back-up with pair programming and code reviews. Much of our code is Python, but we use all kinds of languages and frameworks.
• Create complex regexes that pull structured data out of OCR-transcribed receipt images as well as XPATHs to extract data from receipt emails.
• Maintain the platform that drives our receipt extraction at scale.
• Troubleshoot, test, and maintain the platform and configurations to ensure strong optimization and functionality.
• Evaluate the technical tradeoffs of decisions and build things that last and scale.
• Maintain and fix existing configuration issues.
• Create and analyze new configuration technologies - figuring out how we can scale up our receipt extraction.
  
  

What You'll Bring to Numerator

Skills & Requirements

• Programming experience in Python
• An eagerness to learn new things, and improve upon existing skills, abilities and practices
• Familiarity with web technology, such as HTTP, JSON, HTML, XPath or JavaScript.
• Knowledge in an Agile software development environment,
• Experience with version control systems (Git, Subversion, etc.).
• Have a real passion for clean code and finding elegant solutions to problems.
• Eager to expand your knowledge and abilities in python and cloud-based technologies.
• Motivation to participate in ongoing learning and growth through pair programming, test-driven development, code reviews, and application of new technologies and best practices.
• You look ahead to identify opportunities and foster a culture of innovation.
• Good communication (verbal and written)
  
  

Nice to haves

• Knowledge of web scraping
• Knowledge of regular expressions
• Knowledge of business rules engines.
• Familiarity with virtual software development environments (ie. Vagrant, docker etc.)
• Familiarity with object-oriented programming
• Scripting knowledge
• Familiarity with JSON and similar data formats
• Experience with databases, SQL or no SQL.
• Programming experience on Unix based infrastructure.
• Knowledge of cloud-based systems (EC2, Rackspace, etc.).
• Expertise with big data, analytics, machine learning, and personalization.