Software Engineer (Python)

About Tekmetric

Tekmetric is a cloud-based auto-repair shop management system with an easy-to-use workflow and a modern approach to customer care. Tekmetric champions transparency, integrity, innovation—and above all—a service-mentality that puts customers first.

Founded in Houston, Texas in 2015, Tekmetric has been providing reliable, fast customer service to shops from day one. Our team is growing quickly, but our service philosophy of listening to customers still remains a core value.

We’re looking for hungry candidates to help us strengthen our industry-leading team. We’re building our software to be more intuitive. We’re building more integrations that make our customers’ lives easier. We’re building better internal processes to make our globally distributed organization run more smoothly. We’re building stronger relationships with the best and brightest partners in our industry.

Our customers love our products. We love serving them. And we love the journey we’re on together.

Come build with us!

What You’ll Do
We are seeking a Software Engineer with expertise in web scraping, data processing, and search technologies to help build a large-scale data ingestion and classification system. You will be responsible for extracting data from diverse sources (web pages, APIs, PDFs), cleaning and normalizing it, and building search capabilities using ElasticSearch/OpenSearch. You will work with Python, Scrapy, Airflow, Kubernetes, AWS, and Spark to create scalable, high-performance data pipelines.

• Build and design large scale, distributed crawling bots (perhaps AI agents) and infrastructure that operate in an adversarial environment aiming at low operational overhead
• Develop and maintain data pipelines to extract data from large volumes of web pages, documents, PDFs (OCR), and APIs.
• Help unify heterogeneous documents into a coherent data schema across varied source formats
• Preprocess and normalize raw data for downstream classification, ML/NLP, and search indexing.
• Build APIs to expose structured, classified data via ElasticSearch/OpenSearch.
• Collaborate with ML/NLP teams to integrate classification models into the pipeline.
• Automate workflows using Apache Airflow and deploy solutions in Kubernetes on AWS.
• Optimize and scale data pipelines using Spark (EMR) for processing large datasets.

What You’ll Bring

• 3+ years of experience in Python with building crawling/scraping solutions at scale.
• Experience working with APIs (REST), PDF processing (OCR, Tesseract, PyMuPDF etc.).
• Proficiency in data processing & search technologies (ElasticSearch/OpenSearch, NoSQL/SQL databases).
• Hands-on experience with Airflow and Spark (EMR) or similar distributed systems.
• Strong problem-solving skills in handling anti-scraping mechanisms and data scaling challenges.
• Hands-on experience with AWS or GCP.

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with NLP and Machine Learning (a plus but not required).
• Experience with LLMs, NLP models, or ML frameworks (e.g., Hugging Face, spaCy, TensorFlow, PyTorch).
• Prior experience in automated document classification.
• Experience working in high-scale, production environments with petabytes of data.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes.

Who You Are

Successful candidates will also demonstrate many of the characteristics that our core values represent:

• Build things that matter: 
• You have a love of building something new or improving on current processes and care about making a positive difference.
• We’re all entrepreneurs: 
• You love learning new things and are comfortable working in a startup-like, dynamic environment -- moving quickly, even in the face of ambiguity. You are a self-directed leader who can jump in, structure their own work, and figure out how best to execute a plan yourself and with others. At Tekmetric our leaders are all players and coaches.
• Yes before no: 
• You keep an open mind and are excited about new ideas and helping others actualize their ideas. You are intellectually curious and analytical in a strategic context.
• We matter to each other: 
• You care about people and see the success of one is success for us all. You are a highly ethical individual with unquestioned integrity and the experience, confidence, and stature to protect confidential information in a growing company.

What We Offer:

Healthcare Insurance and Leave:

• Flexible and remote work opportunities
• Generous PTO
• Exceptional leave programs for all of life’s moments: maternity, paternity and parental bonding, as well as medical leave to care for yourself or loved ones
• Excellent Medical, Dental, Vision and Prescription Drug Coverage

Financial Benefits:

• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan with a 6% Match
• Employer covered STD, LTD, Life and AD&D Insurance Programs
• Up to $60 monthly for wellness expenses and activities
• Education Assistance- includes undergraduate/graduate courses and continuing education

Most importantly, we have a stellar team of coworkers, a really cool office, and lots of fun activities!

Tekmetric is an equal opportunity employer. We hire hard working individuals, regardless of gender, race or color, ethnicity or national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We know that when our employees feel appreciated and included, they can be more creative, innovative and successful.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.