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Want to join the team at SnapDragon?

Please send your CV and a covering letter highlighting the skills and experience you’d bring to the role to talent@snapdragon-ip.com

Who Are We?

SnapDragon fights fakes and tackles threats online for brands, legal, and IP firms.  SnapDragon uses AI-powered software combined with a team of skilled, multilingual, international analysts. We find infringements online and, using IPRs, remove them fast.

Value to SnapDragon’s global clients is provided through enforcing against illicit products, infringing domains and websites, fake apps, and social media site impersonators.  SnapDragon defends client reputations and revenues and keeps brands and their consumers safe. SnapDragon are inquisitive, tech and brand savvy digital bodyguards.

About Our Team

We’re dynamic, established, thought leaders, with a fantastic team, and wonderful clients. Our team is friendly, international and welcoming with colleagues from many countries including India, France, Japan, Romania, UK and South Korea.

SnapDragon is growing and this role presents great opportunities for progression and skill development. including those individuals with aspirations for a legal career focused on intellectual property.

 

 

Data Discovery Engineer

Job Purpose

We gather data via scraping, APIs, and helper tools from online marketplaces, social media, domain registrars, search engines and other platforms to monitor and protect our customer’s brands, then normalise that data and process it with machine learning.

This role requires an engineer who will take the lead on the data gathering, work with our lead architect to develop a performant data model for the retrieved data, and work with our data science team to implement updates to the AI infrastructure.

Key Accountabilities

Your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

  • Monitoring, identifying and fixing problems with our scrapers and other integrations.
  • Building additional scrapers for new platforms and data sources to increase our protective capabilities.
  • Working alongside our development team to improve our processes and data acquisition capabilities.
  • Integrating AI functionality and collaborating with Machine Learning Engineers and Data Scientists to deploy cutting edge AI techniques.
  • Participating in code review and testing.


Your scraping work will include manipulation of user agents and cookies, proxies and proxy detection, headless browsers, browser fingerprinting, walled gardens, geolocated exit points, and SERP APIs.

You will be expected to work well independently and should have a keen eye for detail, producing robust and maintainable code. Good communication will be required for collaboration within the team to enable activities such as planning, code reviews and testing.

About You

  • You have developed web scrapers in previous roles.
  • You have experience with scripting languages such as Ruby or Python.
  • You have a good understanding of web technologies; HTML, JavaScript and the document object model.
  • You have built code that interacts with third party APIs.
  • You understand the value of unit testing and are comfortable writing and maintaining a suite of unit tests.
  • You have worked with version control systems (ideally Git) and platforms such as Github, Bitbucket.

Want to Stand Out?

  • You have developed web scrapers in previous roles.
  • You have experience with scripting languages such as Ruby or Python.
  • You have a good understanding of web technologies; HTML, JavaScript and the document object model.
  • You have built code that interacts with third party APIs.
  • You understand the value of unit testing and are comfortable writing and maintaining a suite of unit tests.
  • You have worked with version control systems (ideally Git) and platforms such as Github, Bitbucket.

Development and Career Progression

This role promises ownership of a vital part of our infrastructure, the ability to hone your scraping skills and learn advanced techniques for data retrieval.  It will also allow for experience in reworking a complex data model and integrating AI features into the tech stack.

Please send your CV and a covering letter highlighting the skills and experience you’d bring to the role to talent@snapdragon-ip.com