Junior Software Developer

Junior 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 and it’s recognized 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 Junior Software Developer (Content Integration & Data Pipelines), you will help design and implement the pipelines that collect, process, and deliver online news and web content across our platform. This role sits at the intersection of software engineering, web data acquisition, and distributed systems—focused on building reliable, event-driven pipelines that feed our search, analytics, and AI-driven features.

You will work closely with product owners and other developers to build and optimize systems that ingest, parse, and index content from thousands of online sources.

The work we do is diverse, challenging, and rewarding. Agility PR Solutions develops state-of-the‑art tools that help public relations professionals discover media influencers and derive actionable insights from global media coverage.

In this role, you will contribute to both:

• Backend and pipeline systems (Java, event-driven architecture with Kafka, search indexing with Solr)
• Content acquisition and integration (TypeScript, web scraping and crawling, source integrations)

You will solve problems related to large-scale data processing, distributed workloads, and content quality, while learning how our pipelines power AI-driven product capabilities.

At Agility PR Solutions, we value collaboration, curiosity, and continuous learning. You’ll be part of a team that supports growth, knowledge sharing, and innovation.

What you’ll do

• Develop code using an Agile development process
• Build new features and enhance existing products
• Build and maintain web scrapers and content integrations using TypeScript and Nest.js, following web scraping standards and best practices (robots.txt, rate limiting, polite crawling)
• Design and implement RESTful API services (primarily in Java )
• Develop event-driven services using Kafka to process and route content
• Integrate with third‑party content providers, feeds (RSS/Atom), and external APIs
• Collaborate across backend, frontend, and product teams
• Ensure code quality through testing, reviews, and best practices
• Participate in refactoring and continuous improvement of systems

What You'll Bring

• Degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Hands‑on experience with Java development and REST APIs
• Familiarity with content pipeline concepts, including:
• Web scraping and crawling standards (robots.txt, rate limiting, terms of use)
• Event-driven architecture and message streaming (e.g., Kafka )
• Strong problem‑solving skills and willingness to learn new technologies

Experience with

• SQL
• Git
• Kafka
• Maven

Nice to have:

• Exposure to HTML parsing and content extraction techniques
• Exposure to AI/LLM-powered content enrichment
• Knowledge of Solr (indexing, schema design, query tuning)

Why You’ll Love It Here

• Fully remote work environment
• Collaborative culture – and key tools enabling it
• Competitive compensation package
• RRSP matching
• Life Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Career Development & Progression opportunities
• Paid Vacation, Personal Days and Sick days
• Week off between Christmas and New Years'
• No Internal Meetings Fridays

Compensation for this role is expected to fall within the range of $65,000 - 75,000 annually. The final offer will reflect each candidate’s experience, skills, and internal equity. This is for a vacant position.

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