Senior Anti-Bot / Scraping Engineer

📋 Description

• Design and maintain large-scale Python scraping systems that operate reliably against Google and
• Build scrapers for dynamic, JavaScript-heavy pages using browser automation and hybrid approaches
• Continuously adapt to changes in page structure, request flows, and anti-automation mechanisms
• Engineer robust extraction pipelines that prioritise data accuracy, consistency, and observability
• Implement proxy, fingerprinting, and request-routing strategies to maximise stability and throughput
• Monitor scrape health, detect failures early, and rapidly debug production issues

🎯 Requirements

• Strong professional experience with Python (or another main language, i.e. GoLang, Rust
• Deep hands-on experience scraping Google or similarly protected platforms
• Solid understanding of HTTP, TLS, cookies, headers, redirects, and browser networking behaviour
• Experience with tools such as Playwright, Selenium, Puppeteer, or equivalent browser automation
• Strong knowledge of HTML parsing, DOM traversal, and data extraction techniques
• Experience handling rate limiting, CAPTCHA, IP rotation, and bot detection systems

🎁 Benefits

• Startup Engineering culture
• Strong Culture: quarterly surveys show 93% average approval rating for company culture, overall
• Award-Winning Product: US 2025 Search Awards for Best AI Search Software Innovation
• Stock Options: employees share rewards as company grows
• Trust-Based Vacation: take as much time off as needed
• Remote-First: 52% of Adthenian’s work fully remote, others hybrid at Geohubs (London, Austin