Skuuudle

Skuuudle, located in Manchester, is on the lookout for a talented Junior Software Developer. This role offers an exciting opportunity for recent graduates passionate about coding to develop software solutions for web crawling and data reporting using Python and SQL. The ideal candidate will possess a First Class Bachelor's Degree in relevant subjects and excellent problem-solving skills. The company encourages remote applications from candidates across the UK.

About Skuuudle Skuuudle is the leader in pricing intelligence and competitor monitoring solutions. Our mission is to provide retailers, distributors and brands with price and product intelligence, enabling them to optimise margins and increase market share through data-driven decision making. Although we are well established within our market, we are proud of our start-up culture of collaboration and ingenuity. We value bright, intellectually curious individuals who want to work hard on challenging problems. We have created a culture of continuous improvement and are now looking for a talented, hard-working Junior Software Developer to play a key role in project delivery and exceed our clients' expectations. About You This is a fantastic opportunity for a recent graduate and passionate coder to take their first step into a commercial development role. There are some attributes that we expect the successful candidate to have, and they're listed below, but the key for us is to find someone who is bright, collaborative and intellectually curious and who wants to work hard on challenging problems. The Day-to-Day You'll be developing software solutions for web crawling and reporting in Python and SQL to service some of the world's largest retailers and brands. Your work will support household names in setting their pricing strategy through data-driven decision making. What We're Looking For First Class Bachelor's Degree in a relevant subject (Computer Science, Maths, Physics etc.) Exceptional problem-solving ability and tenacity. Confident coding in Python. Strong work ethic. Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English. What Makes You Stand Out A portfolio of previous work or GitHub account we can review Commercial software development experience Experience working with relational databases and SQL Experience writing software for web crawling E-Commerce experience Location As much as we love to see our team at our Manchester HQ, we are open to receiving applications from remote candidates based in the UK. Salary Up to £30,000/year

Skuuudle is seeking a talented Software Developer to enhance our internal infrastructure supporting large-scale e-commerce data products. Located in Manchester, this role emphasizes backend development, focusing on an internal connectivity service that handles complex web requests and ensures reliable integration with external systems. Candidates should exhibit strong Python skills, experience with backend services, and a solid grasp of HTTP and networking fundamentals.

About Us Skuuudle is a scaleup supporting the pricing strategy of some of the world's largest retailers with market leading competitive pricing intelligence. Although we are well established, we are proud of our start up culture of collaboration, ownership and ingenuity. We are looking for a talented and pragmatic Software Developer to join our team of around 60 people and help us build reliable internal infrastructure that supports large scale e commerce data products. The Role We are looking for a developer to work on a new internal connectivity service that sits between our existing data collection systems and the external websites they access. This role focused on the network and routing layer that allows our internal data collection systems to make reliable outbound web requests at scale. The system will manage how requests are routed through different connectivity options, including external providers and managed network connections. It will need to handle provider selection, routing rules, retries, failure detection, captcha solving, bot handling, performance monitoring, availability and operational controls. This is a hands on engineering role suited to someone who enjoys backend infrastructure, HTTP/networking problems, reliability engineering and building internal services that other engineering teams depend on. The Day to Day You will be involved in: Designing and building an internal connectivity service for outbound web requests. Creating routing logic across multiple network and provider options. Integrating with third party connectivity and infrastructure providers. Building controls for provider selection, failover, retry behaviour and error handling. Measuring and improving success rates, latency, availability and cost efficiency. Developing monitoring, diagnostics and operational tooling. Working with APIs, databases, queues, workers and automation components. Collaborating with teams that build our existing data collection platform, while focusing specifically on the routing and connectivity layer beneath it. What We're Looking For Strong general software engineering skills Strong Python Knowledge Experience building backend services, infrastructure systems or automation heavy tools. Good understanding of HTTP, APIs, DNS, TLS, networking fundamentals and web technologies. Experience integrating with third party APIs, infrastructure providers or external services. Familiarity with databases, queues, workers or distributed processing. Ability to take ownership of ambiguous technical problems and deliver pragmatic solutions. Strong debugging, troubleshooting and problem solving skills. What Makes You Stand Out Experience building request routing, traffic management or connectivity services. Familiarity with proxies, VPNs, tunnels, gateways, HTTP clients or browser networking. Experience with outbound web traffic at scale. Understanding of rate limits, retries, connection reuse, IP reputation, geo routing or provider failover. Experience with distributed systems, queues, orchestration or worker based architectures. Familiarity with browser automation, web automation or e commerce data collection. Experience designing systems with resilience, monitoring and failure recovery in mind. Experience of multiple programming languages. Location As much as we love to see our team at our Manchester HQ, we are open to receiving applications from remote candidates based in the UK.