Senior Python Scraping Engineer
Senior Python Scraping Engineer
Location: Fully remote
Salary: £60,000 - £70,000
The Opportunity
I'm looking for a Python Scraping Engineer to join a growing AI-focused data team.
What You'll Do
- Design, build, and maintain large-scale production web scrapers
- Tackle advanced anti-bot and detection systems
- Work with browser automation and dynamic, JavaScript-heavy sites
- Improve scraper reliability, throughput, and data quality
- Collaborate closely with data engineers and AI teams to ensure scraped data is trusted and usable
What We're Looking For
- Strong Python-based scraping experience (production, large-scale)
- Deep knowledge of:
- Anti-bot detection & evasion
- Browser fingerprinting
- CAPTCHA solving
- Proxy and IP management
- HTTP protocols and browser networking
- Hands-on experience with browser automation tools (e.g. Playwright, Selenium, Puppeteer)
- Comfortable debugging complex scraping failures at scale
Tech Preferences
- Python (preferred)
Interview Process
- CTO interview
- Meet the team