Web Scraping Engineer
FRG Technology Consulting
Charing Cross, United Kingdom
2 days ago
Role details
Contract type
Permanent contract Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours) Working hours
Regular working hours Languages
English Experience level
Senior Compensation
£ 70KJob location
Remote
Charing Cross, United Kingdom
Tech stack
HTML
Java
JavaScript
PHP
C++
Information Engineering
Web Scraping
Software Debugging
DevOps
Data Intelligence
Python
Parsing
Selenium
Puppeteer (Software)
Juniper
Containerization
Angular
Kubernetes
Playwright
Docker
Job description
- Design and maintain large-scale Python scraping systems that operate reliably against highly defended websites.
- Build scrapers for dynamic, JavaScript-heavy pages using browser automation and hybrid techniques.
- Continuously adapt to changes in structure, request flows, and anti-automation mechanisms.
- Engineer robust extraction pipelines focused on accuracy, consistency, and observability.
- Implement proxy, fingerprinting, and request-routing strategies to increase stability and throughput.
- Monitor scrape health, detect failures early, and quickly resolve issues in production.
- Optimise performance, cost, and latency across scraping infrastructure.
- Collaborate with data engineering, data science, and product teams to ensure scraped data is reliable and usable.
- Maintain clear documentation and operational runbooks for long-term maintainability., * Android Developer Jobs
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Requirements
- Strong professional experience with Python, including production-grade scraping systems.
- Deep hands-on experience scraping Google or similarly protected platforms.
- Solid understanding of HTTP, TLS, cookies, headers, redirects, and browser-network behaviour.
- Experience with tools such as Playwright, Selenium, Puppeteer, or similar browser-automation frameworks.
- Strong knowledge of HTML parsing, DOM traversal, and data-extraction techniques.
- Experience handling rate limiting, CAPTCHAs, IP rotation, and bot-detection systems.
- Comfortable working with asynchronous and concurrent scraping architectures.
- Experience running scrapers at scale in cloud environments.
- Strong debugging skills and the ability to reason about complex failure modes.
- Experience with headless browser fingerprinting and anti-bot evasion techniques.
Nice to Have
- Familiarity with containerisation and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience with distributed task systems and job queues.
- Background in data-quality monitoring and anomaly detection.
- Experience working with search, advertising, or competitive-intelligence data.
What We Value
- Pragmatic problem-solving in hostile and fast-changing technical environments.
- High ownership of systems that run continuously and at scale.
- A strong bias toward reliability, correctness, and observability.
- Ability to explain complex technical behaviour to non-specialists.
- Curiosity about how large platforms evolve their defences and infrastructure.
Benefits & conditions
- £50,000 to £70,000 GBP
- Engineer Role
- Skills: Python, cookies, google, HTML, docker, kubernetes
- Level: Senior