In case The One missed our posting two weeks ago..
Songkick (YC s2007) is looking for a gifted junior developer to work primarily on data acquisition: writing scrapers and implementing feeds to greedily acquire vast amounts of clean, useful data for our users.
This challenge requires a diverse range of skills: you’re going to have to read from other peoples’ APIs, parse HTML when no API is available, talk to our middleware messaging layer, and manage an ever-growing codebase of data-acquisition systems. You’ll have to be creative and think on your feet - we are often not talking to official APIs, and this results in a daily game of cat and mouse to keep the data flowing in. Having already gained some (up to 2 years) commercial development experience, you’ll be hungry to further hone your development skills at a high profile startup.
Your hard work will not go unnoticed, and we will do our part to help you build a highly successful career here at Songkick. This is an opportunity to join an experienced team and work alongside exciting talent on some very hard, very intriguing problems.
More details, and how to apply, at: http://bit.ly/kw8VT
