Web Scraping Engineer
Senior Web Scraping Engineer
£50,000-£70,000 * Fully Remote (Quarterly London Travel)
Are you an expert-level scraper who understands Google at scale better than most people understand their morning coffee? We're hiring a Senior Web Scraping Engineer to build, optimise, and scale our high-volume data acquisition systems - with a core focus on Google scraping, bot detection evasion, and high-performance infrastructure.
This is a brand-new role with huge influence and autonomy.
Why This Role MattersWe operate at serious scale think 10+ million Google requests per day and we need someone who's been in the trenches of distributed scraping, anti-bot avoidance, and fingerprinting.If you've only done general-purpose web scraping, this role will not be a fit.We're looking for a genuine specialist.
What You'll Be Doing- Designing and scaling large-volume Google scraping pipelines
- Implementing advanced strategies for:
- Bot detection avoidance
- Fingerprinting and browser emulation
- Anti-bot system navigation
- Captcha detection & solving
- Building resilient, automated scraping systems using Python or Java
- Ensuring reliability and efficiency across millions of daily requests
- Working cross-functionally to understand data needs and deliver clean, structured output
- Expert-level scraping with Python or Java
- Direct experience scraping Google at scale
- Proven background in:
- Anti-bot systems
- Fingerprinting
- Captcha handling
- Distributed scraping architecture
- High-volume request handling (10M+ per day)
- Deep understanding of bot detection and how to defeat it
- Excellent communicator
- Clear documentation skills
- Ability to explain complex technical decisions simply
- Salary: £50k-£70k
- Location: 100% remote (UK-based), with travel to London once every 3 months
- Interview Process: Maximum of two stages, often completed on the same day
- Technical Test: May be included as part of interview
- Start Date: This is a brand-new role with immediate impact