NielsenIQ

Senior Software Engineer (Web Scraping, Data acquisition, Data collection)

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13 hours ago
Barcelona, Spain or Madrid, SpainSenior

Responsibilities

  • Design and build scalable distributed scraping architectures for thousands of domains.
  • Reverse engineer APIs and mobile applications using Frida, mitmproxy, Charles Proxy, Burp Suite, and similar tools.
  • Detect and handle anti-bot measures, JavaScript challenges, browser behavior detection, fingerprinting, and WAFs.
  • Lead technical innovation by identifying edge cases, prototyping approaches, and sharing knowledge.
  • Set up anomaly detection and monitoring to identify scraping blockers and failures early.
  • Handle proxies, session management, cookie injection, and TLS tuning across scraping workloads.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of experience with Python and large-scale scraping projects.
  • Deep understanding of anti-bot technologies, fingerprinting, WAFs, JavaScript challenges, and bypass techniques.
  • Experience with Scrapy, Requests, httpx, Selenium, Playwright, or custom headless browser drivers.
  • Strong debugging skills across browsers, HTTP traffic, and device-level interactions.
  • Familiarity with Parquet, Avro, or real-time stream processing.
  • Knowledge of MongoDB, InfluxDB, and Redis, including optimization.
  • Bonus experience with real-device simulation, distributed task queues such as Celery and Kafka, high-security or mobile-first platforms, Linux, AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Cloud Run, and Cloud Functions.
  • Ability to work independently on novel technical problems.

Benefits

  • Flexible working environment and flexible hours.
  • Volunteer time off.
  • LinkedIn Learning.
  • Employee Assistance Program.
  • Competitive salary and opportunities for rapid growth.
  • Ownership and freedom to experiment within a global, innovation-focused team.

Tech Stack

Categories

BackendData Engineering
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