Company & Work Details

- Hiring Company: Dot & – an emerging pillar of MS
- Website: https://www.dot-and.com/
- Parent Company: MS
- Website: https://www.ms-ca.com/
- Location: KINFRA Techno Industrial Park, Kakkanchery, near Calicut University
- Work Mode: On-site
- Working Days: Monday to Friday

About the Role:

We are building a data collection and storage infrastructure from scratch - and we are looking for a

Python Developer / Data Engineers to own it. You will integrate with third-party data APIs, build custom web crawlers where public sources do not offer an API, design the database structure, and normalise data from multiple sources into a clean, consistent store ready for analysis. Once the infrastructure is operational, the scope grows.

As the platform matures, there is a clear path toward building lightweight internal tooling on top of the data layer you have built. This is a long-term role with growing ownership.

What You Will Do:

- Integrate with multiple third-party data APIs - handle authentication, rate limiting, pagination,

retries, and inconsistent response schemas
- Build custom web crawlers where public data sources do not offer an API
- Design and manage a relational database to store, organise, and retrieve collected data reliably
- Build standardisation and normalisation logic that transforms raw data from different sources and formats into a clean, consistent internal structure
- Handle deduplication and data quality management across all sources
- Build scheduled and on-demand data collection pipelines - automated runs on a defined cadence plus manual trigger capability
- Write clean, well-documented code
- Maintain the data infrastructure on an ongoing basis

Required Skills:





- Python - 2+ years as primary language. Strong, not just familiar.
- REST API integration - real experience consuming multiple third-party APIs and handling practical integration challenges
- Web crawling / scraping - has built custom crawlers using Scrapy, BeautifulSoup, Playwright, or similar. Understands agile content, anti-bot handling, and responsible crawling
- Relational Database - schema design from scratch, query writing, indexing, and ongoing management
- Data normalisation and deduplication across multiple sources and formats
- Scheduling and automation - APScheduler, cron, or equivalent
- Cloud Basics - comfortable hosting scheduled jobs and managing a cloud database (AWS, GCP,

or Azure)

Preferred Skills:

- Experience at a data product company, data infrastructure firm, media monitoring firm, data aggregator, or fintech where data collection was core work.
- FastAPI or Flask
- Exposure to multilingual or non-English text data and OSINT frameworks
- Basic frontend experience - as the platform grows, there will be opportunity to build lightweight internal interfaces on top of the data layer

Who We Are Looking For:

- Someone who takes full ownership of what they build. You have built a data collection pipeline from scratch before - APIs, crawlers, or both. You design clean schemas, write readable code,

document your decisions. You are comfortable working independently and bringing sound technical judgment to the problems in front of you.
- If you've previously built API integrations, crawlers, or internal data platforms and you want to build infrastructure that becomes the backbone of an intelligence product - we would like to hear from you

📌 Associate – Python & Data Engineering (Kozhikode)
🏢 Dot and
📍 Kozhikode