Lead Software Engineer

Company Description

At Scrapingdog, we make web scraping easy for everyone. Our suite of APIs handles millions of proxies, browsers, and CAPTCHAs to provide users with HTML of any web page in a single API call. Designed to be fast and simple to use, our tools help businesses collect data for leads, pricing, research, and more, ensuring growth and efficiency. We build strong partnerships with our clients to help them grow faster and achieve success.

Role & responsibilities

Work directly with customers to troubleshoot issues, provide solutions, and guide them in using our APIs effectively, ensuring they see value quickly and smoothly convert into paid customers.

Design, build, and maintain Scrapingdog’s API layer (Node.js, Express).

Optimize and scale our MongoDB-backed data models for speed and reliability.

Implement job queues, caching layers, and credit metering logic.

Develop CI / CD pipelines for automated deployments.

Deploy and manage services on DigitalOcean droplets.

Improve monitoring, observability, and fault tolerance across our stack.

Collaborate with infra, browser, and product teams to bring new features to life.

Evolve our architecture to support 10x more scale and usage.

Qualifications

3+ years of experience building production-grade backend systems.

Strong expertise in Node.js, Express, and MongoDB .

Comfortable designing APIs and working across multiple services.

Familiarity with Redis, job queues, rate limiting, and background task processing .

A problem solver who enjoys working autonomously and driving projects end-to-end.

Pragmatic, fast-moving, and motivated to work on a large-scale system .

Excellent communication skills to interact with customers and translate technical solutions into clear guidance.

Hands-on experience with automation tools like n8n or similar platforms .

What you get

Opportunity to work on a high-traffic SaaS product used by 10,000+ developers

Work directly with the founding team

Flexible work environment

Performance-based bonuses