Manipal Dot Net Pvt Ltd has an opening for a self-motivated, team-oriented, hard-working Web Scraping Template Development Engineers, to work on an exciting project in extracting and ingesting data from websites using web crawling tools. Job Responsibilities: Extract structured/unstructured data from multiple retail and e-commerce websites. Identify a diverse and representative set of product pages of various retailer domains for testing and development. Develop and test XPath templates to extract various attributes from product pages. Use labelling tools to generate training data for Machine Learning engines. Fix bugs and maintain already developed templates. Respond to urgent client requirements – bug fixing for priority websites when requested by the client. Maintain documentation and spreadsheets, and daily reports with clean and precise information as well as statistics about the websites and parameters extracted. Guide and mentor other engineers – applicable for experienced engineers. Perform code reviews and suggest design changes – applicable for experienced engineers. Desirable Skill Set: Good knowledge and experience of the Linux operating system and Python/Bash scripting. Strong foundation in the application of XPath to processing XML/HTML. Solid grasp of web technologies and protocols (HTML, XPath, JSON, HTTP, CSS etc.). Experienced in the use of version control and code sharing repositories e.g. git/github. Familiarity with Regular Expressions (regex). Experienced in the use of browser-based debuggers e.g. Chrome debugger. Personal Skills: Keen attention to detail. Ability to thoroughly follow written instructions. Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Eager to learn new technical skills and grow. Team-oriented, with good interpersonal skills. Must be self-motivated and demonstrate a 'can do' attitude. Qualifications: Bachelor's Degree (BSc/BE/BCA) in Computer Science/IT/Electronics. Master's Degree Preferred (MSc/MCA/MTech). 0-3 years of experience in web-based application development.