Software Developer (Content Integration & Data Pipelines)

Company Overview

Agility PR Solutions provides today’s communicators with powerful and intuitiveAI poweredmedia 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,monitormedia 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,Philippinesand 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 (TypeScript, 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 TypeScript
- 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

Strongly preferred:

- Experience building content ingestion pipelines for news or media data
- Understanding of system design and scalability tradeoffs
- Ability to work independently and take ownership of projects
- Robust problem-solving and system design thinking
- Effective communication across technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Passion for data, automation, and emerging technologies, including AI

Why You'll Love It Here

- Fully remote work environment
- Team-oriented culture – and key tools enabling it
- Competitive compensation package
- RRSP matching
- Life Insurance
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Career Development & Progression opportunities
- Paid Vacation, Personal

📌 Software Developer (Ottawa)
🏢 Agility-PR-Solution
📍 Ottawa