At AutoUncle, we are on a mission to become Europe's most trusted platform to make smarter financial decisions about mobility. Today, we are driving transparency in the market by helping millions of people internationally navigate the jungle of buying a car. With our search engine and price comparison, we are the leading aggregator to help potential car buyers make informative and easy decisions while finding their next car. Join us to take AutoUncle to the next level, and transform AutoUncle into an even more distinguished, loved and trusted consumer brand.

In addition to helping individuals make smarter financial decisions about mobility, we have a continuous goal to be The Most Human Company - by keeping the focus on the employees. We work remotely in an agile and collaborative environment, where we challenge the norms of traditional business practices and focus on results, allowing you to have more freedom, flexibility and responsibility within your role. AutoUncle is a founder-led scale-up with a special care for products and people, that is our goal to be The Most Human Company. Take a look at our Employee Handbook for more details regarding our employee first culture!  

Your mission as Web Scraping Assistant

As a Web Scraping Assistant, full or part-time (6hr/day), your job will include: 

• Data collection & manipulation
• Maintaining the data
• Building crawlers/scrapers
• Indexing from scratch

This is an entry level opportunity, if you don’t have the experience we’ve got you covered! We have the people, process’ & environment to help you learn and excel fast. 

Your Profile

• Have an interest in data and programming
• A disciplined and focused workflow
• Have a growth mindset and are interested in learning
• You are reliable, take responsibility in regards to tasks, colleagues and your team
• Fluent in English
• Comfortable communicating about complex data with other teams

These skills are a plus

• Basic knowledge with XPath and RegExp
• Analytical thinking with an interest in “hacking” (find solutions for basic crawling/scraping challenges)
• Basic knowledge of data-interchange formats (JSON, XML etc)
• Able to understand the basics of spacepath and/or tools we created
• Basic knowledge of HTTP protocol (server, client, proxy etc)
• Understands basic concepts from Ruby
• Understands how Ruby on Rails works
• Basic knowledge between client-server communication
• Understands basic concepts from SCRUM

The difference you will make

This role has a great impact on AutoUncle’s current and future success and international development. Since most of our products are dependent on the data from the Data team, we won’t be able to expand the company faster than what the Data Team can keep up with = serious impact and business critical!

Want to Learn More!

In combination with the company vision, AutoUncle works methodically to be The Most Human Company – a place where employees can be ambitious, work alongside great colleagues, be trusted in their roles, have a big international impact, and bring their full humanity to work. Take a look at our Employee Handbook and see what it’s like to work at AutoUncle and meet the teams!

How we operate

• We work on problems and opportunities, not "scoped solutions"
• We focus on learning and growing professionally/personally
• We set goals using OKRs and plan work with Linear
• We conduct user tests weekly
• We run A/B tests at big scale
• We collaborate with humour and warmth
• We hold each other accountable to high standards

Starting date: As quick as possible

Compensation: Competitive, based on qualifications

Attach a video: When submitting your application we encourage you to attach a short video. Don't fuss about creating something perfect, a 1 minute smartphone recording where you share in English who you are as a human and why you're interested in this job is more than sufficient!