Software Developer; Content Integration & Data Pipelines

Software Developer (Content Integration & Data Pipelines)   Company Overview
Agility PR Solutions provides today’s communicators with powerful and intuitive AI powered media outreach, monitoring, and measurement solutions. For almost twenty years, Agility has helped clients from across industries and continents discover relevant journalists and influencers, make meaningful connections with the media, amplify their stories,monitor media coverage and social conversations, and report on the impact of their public relations activities. Agility is one of the fastest growing companies in the PR tech space andit’srecognized by users on G2 for ease of use, quick implementation, and outstanding customer service.
We are a remote-first company, with colleagues based across vibrant cities in Canada, US, the UK,Philippines and India. We are intentional in helping our teams realize their full potential, and continue to invest in their learning and development, career progression, offering competitive pay and benefits, enabling leadership and work environment.
About the Role
As a  Software Developer (Content Integration & Data Pipelines)  , you will design, build, and scale the production-grade pipelines that collect, process, and deliver online news and web content across our platform. You will play a key role in shaping how content flows from thousands of sources into our search and analytics systems — powering the monitoring, insights, and AI-driven features PR professionals rely on every day.
This role goes beyond implementation. You will contribute to system design, architecture decisions, and data strategy, helping define how content is acquired, normalized, enriched, and indexed at scale using event-driven design.
You’ll work across both:
Content acquisition and integration  (Type Script, web scraping and crawling, source integrations)
Backend and pipeline systems  (Java, event-driven architecture with Kafka, search indexing with Solr)
Agility PR Solutions is building next-generation media intelligence capabilities powered by AI. Your work will directly influence how customers extract insights, automate workflows, and make decisions from large-scale media data
What you’ll do   Build and maintain scalable web scrapers and crawlers that follow web scraping standards and best practices (robots.txt, rate limiting, polite crawling)
Develop content integration and parsing logic using  Type Script
Design and build event-driven services using Kafka to process, enrich, and route content in near real time
Integrate with  third-party content providers, feeds (RSS/Atom), and external APIs
Design and implement  RESTful services (Java)  to support content processing and delivery
Define and enforce best practices for:
Scraping compliance and source management
Pipeline reliability, error handling, and data quality
Observability and monitoring of content pipelines
Optimize performance, cost, and reliability of pipeline workloads
Contribute to architectural decisions and technical direction
Mentor junior developers and contribute to team knowledge sharing
What You'll Bring   Degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience)
3+ years of software development experience
Solid experience building backend services (  Java or similar  )
Hands‑on experience with  web scraping and crawling in production environments  , including adherence to web scraping standards (robots.txt, rate limiting, terms of use)
You should have practical experience with:
Event-driven architecture and message streaming (e.g.,  Kafka  )
HTML parsing, content extraction, and normalization techniques

Experience with :
SQL and data modeling
Git, and modern development workflows
Kafka
Maven
Knowledge of Solr (indexing, schema design, query tuning) is an asset
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