Job Description
Software Engineer-Web Scraping
Chennai/Pune
About the Team
At NIQ Digital shelf, scraping isn’t just about collecting data, it’s 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 world’s top retailers and brands.
You'll join a team of 60+ scrapers , engineers, analysts, and data lovers from across the globe. As part of our scraping and R&D; team, you’ll have space to experiment, push boundaries , and bring bold ideas to life. You’ll collaborate closely with Customer Success , Operations , and Data to ensure we extract high-quality, actionable data — quick and at scale.
This isn’t just a coding job. You’ll need to think like a hacker , move like an engineer, and act like an inventor.
️ What You'll 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 current approaches, and share knowledge with the team. Set up anomaly detection and monitoring to detect blockers or failures early.
Qualifications
1+ 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. Solid debugging skills across browser, HTTP traffic, and device-level interactions. You think independently and e

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