What are the responsibilities and job description for the Full Stack - Webscraping Platform Engineer position at Balyasny Asset Management L.P.?
Role Overview
The Webscraping team is seeking an experienced software engineer with broad full-stack experience and a passion for building internal applications, monitoring, and developer tools. As a center of expertise in web scraping, our team is responsible for distilling important data and signals from the internet and delivering it in a structured and accessible format, flexibly responding to the ever-changing needs of our investment teams and their strategies. We are looking for someone a track record of cross-disciplinary software development experience, who can help drive impactful improvements to our development process.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate as part of a globally distributed yet close-knit engineering team.
- Build trading-critical scraping pipelines, bringing data from raw source websites to our systems with low latency and high reliability
- Lead the development of our web portal (Next.js), where our team collaborates with our investment managers
- Build innovative developer-facing tooling to assist with the creation of scrapes and management of hotfixes
- Be a developer advocate, guiding the rollout of these tools to our team, and iterating on solutions
Minimum qualifications
- Degree in Computer Science or related field
- 3 years of full stack experience
- 3 years of experience in data engineering
- Strong knowledge of software engineering best practices.
- Familiarity with at least one cloud environment, preferably AWS.
- Self-starter who’s not afraid to experiment, ask questions, and work through blockers.
- Experience in Python and Scrapy
Preferred qualifications
- Experience with Next.js or React
- Power user of AI-assisted coding tools
- Experience with DevOps techniques, including CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code
