Senior Web Scraper (Scrapy)

You'll join a team of 60+ scrapers, engineers, analysts, and data lovers from across the globe. As part of our scraping and R&D; team, you’ll have space to experiment, push boundaries, and bring bold ideas to life. You’ll collaborate closely with Customer Success, Operations, and Data to ensure we extract high-quality, actionable data — fast and at scale.

This isn’t just a coding job. You’ll need to think like a hacker, move like an engineer, and act like an inventor

Job Description

• Design and build distributed scraping architectures that can scale across thousands of domains.
• Reverse engineer APIs and mobile apps using tools like Frida, mitmproxy, Charles Proxy, burp and many more.
• Detect common anti-bot measures (like JavaScript checks or browser behavior detection) to build crawlers that adjust to appear more human-like.
• Lead technical innovation in scraping: identify edge cases, prototype new approaches, and share knowledge with the team.
• Set up anomaly detection and monitoring to detect blockers or failures early
Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience with Python and large-scale scraping projects.
• Deep understanding of anti-bot technologies and how to bypass them, fingerprinting, WAFs, JavaScript challenges, etc.
• Experience working with Scrapy, Requests, httpx, Selenium, Playwright, or custom headless browser drivers.
• Skilled at handling proxies (residential, datacenter, rotating), session management, cookie injection, and TLS tweaking.
• Strong debugging skills across browser, HTTP traffic, and device-level interactions.
• You think independently and enjoy solving problems no one has solved before.
• Familiarity with structured storage formats (Parquet, Avro), or real-time stream processing.
• Good knowledge of databases like MongoDB, InfluxDB, and Redis, including how they work and how to optimize them.
➕ Bonus Skills

• Experience with real-device simulation for mobile scraping.
• Comfortable building and maintaining distributed task queues (Celery, Kafka, etc.).
• Experience scraping high-security platforms or mobile-first environments.
• Exposure to Linux or cloud environments (AWS, GCP, etc.).
• Basic understanding of Kubernetes, Cloud Run, and Cloud Functions to deploy and orchestrate scraping workloads.
Why Join NIQ Digital shelf

• You'll have ownership and freedom to experiment, backed by a team that thrives on innovation.
• You'll work with people who are truly passionate about data and know how to use it well.
• Your ideas will shape our strategy, tools, and success — you won’t just follow the Playbook; you’ll write about it.
• Friendly and transparent work culture, competitive salary, flexible hours, and the chance to grow fast in a high-impact role.

Function: Human Resources
Experience Level: Not Applicable