Spider Programmer I (Entry Level)

Job Description

Job Description

Description :

Job Summary : Develops, maintains, and supports policies and procedures for ensuring the functionality and accuracy of the programs used to spider labor data from external sites. Relies on direction and good judgment to plan and accomplish goals. Works under general supervision.

Viable candidates must be willing to work onsite at iQuery's headquarters in Palm Harbor, Florida.

Duties and Responsibilities :

• Supports and documents new development of spidering robot programs (bots) to quickly and accurately extract data from external websites
• Ensures all bots meet full QA standards
• Ensures assigned bots are fully functional and resolves problems when they are not
• Meets performance metrics as expected, with goals on a weekly and monthly basis
• As experience grows will have an understanding of the bot library, spidering software, and database processing of extracted data
• Know what situations require the implementation and use of a proxy
• Able to maintain an average of 70 – 175 bot repairs per week with minimal QA issues (depends on experience and the mix of large / medium / small bots)
• May be required to perform manual bot QA with reasonable speed and accuracy

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Equal Opportunity Employer. M / F / D / V