Reverse Engineering Expert (remote)

Reverse Engineering Expert (remote)

ON HOLD DUE TO CORONAVIRUS SITUATION

The Company

OTA Insight is a Revenue Management Intelligence Provider for the hospitality industry. Our clients are individual hotels and major chains like Hilton, Accor, …

. OTA Insight’s dashboard provides price rate intelligence for the hotels.

Why? To increase their revenue by optimizing the pricing of the rooms on various channels for various lengths of stays.

How? We combine cutting edge technology & data analytics to provide business intelligence. This is how we drive revenue management processes to maximize occupancy and rates for incremental revenues.

Today OTA Insight is present in more than 168 countries around the world and works with more than 40.000 independent, local and global hotel chain properties. (more info see below)

The Job

We're looking for an expert in web scraping techniques and technology, with a think- outside-the-box mindset who has experience or interest in employing this on a large scale.

We're currently extracting billions of data points from 100s of millions of web requests on a daily basis. We have built up extensive in-house knowledge and tooling on the subject, and are looking for people to help us continue and expand on these.

In this role you will:

  • Use reverse engineering to help us scale our products to 40.000+ hotels
  • Investigate the newest browser fingerprinting techniques
  • Perform tracking behavior analysis
  • Think creatively and come up with novel strategies to extract data
  • Find ways to monitor and auto-heal the crawling process

Your Profile

You could definitely get our attention, if:

  • You know (or are willing to learn) Python
  • You are strongly interested in security and computer networks
  • You have a good understanding of how browser engines and ad-blocker mechanisms work.
  • You like to dive into the code and find quirks and problems.
  • Last but not least, you are a good communicator who can interact both with technical and non-technical people in English.

Why apply?

  • You want to use your skills in a highly challenging technical environment with hundreds of millions of web requests per day and the latest technologies to play with.
  • You want to be part of the next big thing: a successful scale-up with a worldwide scope and different products.
  • You can either work remotely from any country as a contractor or you can join the team in Belgium (Ghent) as an employee. In the latter case, we take care of your work permit and help you get settled in your new home country.
  • Obviously we pay our people well.
  • We like our company culture; maybe you’ll like it too? Check it out

https://www.bloovi.careers/nl/bedrijven/ota-insight

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/mathiasverhoeven

OTA Insight is a scale up that was founded in 2012 by three young Belgians. Today they are backed by two major investors with experience in both the IT world and the hospitality industry.

At OTA insight, you’re part of a global family with 230 family members (average age of 31) spread across offices in London, Ghent (Belgium), Dallas, Singapore and Sydney.

We’ve got a total of 32 different nationalities in our #BestTeamEver. And who knows? You might even make it 33!

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