Web Scraping Data Analyst - iHealth and Wellness Foundation, Inc

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We are an 'early stage' pre-money nonprofit/ tech startup preparing for a proof-of-concept launch / seed-raise looking to recruit VOLUNTEERS (unpaid) as WEB SCRAPING FOCUSED DATA ENGINEER.

Future Salary would be promised for employees (after seed funding round).

We’re searching for talented data scientists who are passionate about the acquisition of data with strong skills and knowledge of web scraping, web services, file transfers, and everything data.

You’ll be helping to improve the healthcare experience for our users by making it simpler and more efficient for patients to book an appointment with and visit a doctor.

Responsibilities:

Develop web crawling (scraping) strategies for specific websites and other collection strategies for third-party data sources

Configure data extraction and transformations in an individual contributor role across multiple data sources

Ensure accurate delivery of data format and data frequency with quality deliverables per specification

Research the best sources for certain types of data

Review sources for feasibility

Implement those strategies

Maintain existing data collection apps, especially when the sources change

The most important aspect of crawl dev work is detail orientation! This means picking up on weird deviations in format, being thorough about testing on many different pages, and so on

Required Experience:

Past experience working with web scraping

Comfortable working with object-oriented programming, experience following programming templates

Understanding of stateless programming

Trainability with standard project management software (e.g. Jira) as well as internally-developed monitoring tools

Detail Oriented

Ability to focus on smaller, short-term projects more important than long term ones

Ability to communicate effectively with other members of the team

Previous experience at a startup or consulting company is a plus

Ability to commit to a minimum of 4+ hour work weeks

Ability to attend weekly standup meeting (conference call with desktop/ laptop access for screen sharing)

HealthTech experience is a plus

NOTE: Your first assignment will involve launching a fundraising campaign. iHealth will provide comprehensive guidance and resources to help ensure your fundraiser is both quick and successful.

Please note that candidates actively seeking CPT/Internships are ineligible for this particular volunteer position.

Join us, you win, we both win!!

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