Software Engineer Web Scraping

Mid/Sr Software Engineer- Web scraping

Chennai/Pune

About the Team

At NIQ Digital shelf scraping isnt just about collecting data its about outsmarting the obstacles that stand in the way of visibility. Every day we process tens of billions of data points from thousands of sources both web and mobile and transform them into actionable insights for the worlds top retailers and brands.

Youll join a team of 60 scrapers engineers analysts and data lovers from across the globe. As part of our scraping and R&D team youll have space to experiment push boundaries and bring bold ideas to life. Youll collaborate closely with Customer Success Operations and Data to ensure we extract high-quality actionable data fast and at scale.

This isnt just a coding job. Youll need to think like a hacker move like an engineer and act like an inventor.

What Youll Work On

• Design and build distributed scraping architectures that can scale across thousands of domains.
• Reverse engineer APIs and mobile apps using tools like Frida mitmproxy Charles Proxy burp and many more.
• Detect common anti-bot measures (like JavaScript checks or browser behavior detection) to build crawlers that adjust to appear more human-like.
• Lead technical innovation in scraping: identify edge cases prototype new approaches and share knowledge with the team.
• Set up anomaly detection and monitoring to detect blockers or failures early.

Qualifications :

What You Bring

• 2 to 10 years of experience with Python and large-scale scraping projects.
• Deep understanding of anti-bot technologies and how to bypass them fingerprinting WAFs JavaScript challenges etc.
• Experience working with Scrapy Requests httpx Selenium Playwright or custom headless browser drivers.
• Skilled at handling proxies (residential datacenter rotating) session management cookie injection and TLS tweaking.
• Strong debugging skills across browser HTTP traffic and device-level interactions.
• You think independently and enjoy solving problems no one has solved before.
• Familiarity with structured storage formats (Parquet Avro) or real-time stream processing.
• Good knowledge of databases like MongoDB InfluxDB and Redis including how they work and how to optimize them.

Bonus Skills

• Experience with real-device simulation for mobile scraping.
• Comfortable building and maintaining distributed task queues (Celery Kafka etc.).
• Experience scraping high-security platforms or mobile-first environments.
• Exposure to Linux or cloud environments (AWS GCP etc.).
• Basic understanding of Kubernetes Cloud Run and Cloud Functions to deploy and orchestrate scraping workloads.

Additional Information :

Our Benefits

• Flexible working environment
• Volunteer time off
• LinkedIn Learning
• Employee-Assistance-Program (EAP)

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Employment Type :

Full-time

Experience: years
Vacancy: 1