Lead Python Developer

Description

Summary: Join a global team as a Lead Python Developer to develop tools for monitoring and crawling tax-related websites. Highlights: 1. Lead Python Development for tax technology solutions 2. Develop tools to monitor and crawl websites for tax content 3. Opportunity to work with web scraping and crawler technologies Currently, we are looking for a **remote Lead Python Developer** to join our global team. The customer is the leading and most\-trusted provider of comprehensive, integrated tax technology solutions, providing its services for sales, value added, consumer use, communication service, lease, lodging, and payroll taxes. **Responsibilities** * Develop tools to monitor web sites where tax related content is posted and alert tax researchers if a change is identified * Develop a catalog of web sites to be monitored * Work with solution architect to explore options to crawl websites and download a dump of entire web site rather than scrape content from particular pages **Requirements** * 5\+ years of experience in Python Development * 1\+ year of leadership experience * Good understanding of HTML, CSS and JavaScript * Strong knowledge of Python * Ability to solve tasks end\-to\-end (you'll have to cooperate with EPAM's BPO team and Vertex task researchers and be able to interpret their requirements on your own) * Ability to produce supporting documentation of good quality * Experience scrapping text from web pages and/or writing web crawlers **Nice to have** * Experience with any RDBMS, but Postgres * Experience with PDF format or extraction of text from PDF * AWS Lambdas, SNS, SQS * Docker and Kubernetes