5 months ago
Hyderābād, IndiaMid Level
Responsibilities
- Maintain and enhance scrapers across marketplaces, websites, webshops, domain and WHOIS sources, and social media platforms.
- Build new scrapers from initial site analysis through production deployment.
- Improve scraper reliability against anti-bot defenses using rotating proxies, browser fingerprinting, request pacing, and header and cookie management.
- Monitor scraper health, diagnose failures, and resolve breakages caused by website changes.
- Structure and store collected data so downstream pipelines receive clean, complete, and organized data.
- Run scrapers at scale using scheduling, orchestration, retry, and queue-management mechanisms.
- Package and deploy scrapers in containerized, version-controlled environments.
- Write maintainable code, participate in code reviews, and document scrapers for team use.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of relevant experience in web scraping or a similar domain.
- Strong Python experience, including practical Playwright development.
- Experience with Selenium and scraping at scale against sites with active anti-scraping mechanisms.
- Experience with CAPTCHA-solving approaches, Google Cloud, virtual machines, and marketplace or social media scraping.
- Experience reverse-engineering mobile or web APIs.
- Familiarity with browser fingerprinting libraries such as undetected-chromedriver and playwright-stealth.
- Solid understanding of HTTP, HTML, DOM, browser developer tools, XHR, fetch, and dynamic rendering.
- Experience managing proxies, request headers, cookies, and scraper performance against anti-bot defenses.
- Proficiency with Git and containerized environments such as Docker.
- Exposure to Java or TypeScript is beneficial.
- Fluent written and verbal English.
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About Anaqua
Anaqua builds SaaS platforms for intellectual property and trademark management used by global corporations and law firms, covering docketing, portfolio analytics, and annuity services. Its products—AQX, RightHub, and PATTSY WAVE—support end-to-end IP workflows and integrations across patents and trademarks. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Boston, the privately held company operates worldwide and generates revenue through enterprise software subscriptions and related managed services.