Python Scraping Engineer in London

Python Scraping Engineer

Location: Fully remote

Salary: £40,000 – £60,000

The Opportunity

I\’m looking for a Python Scraping Engineer to join a growing AI-focused data team.

What You’ll Do

• Design, build, and maintain large-scale production web scrapers
• Tackle advanced anti-bot and detection systems
• Work with browser automation and dynamic, JavaScript-heavy sites
• Improve scraper reliability, throughput, and data quality
• Collaborate closely with data engineers and AI teams to ensure scraped data is trusted and usable

What We’re Looking For

• Strong Python-based scraping experience (production, large-scale)
• Deep knowledge of:
• Anti-bot detection & evasion
• Browser fingerprinting
• CAPTCHA solving
• Proxy and IP management
• HTTP protocols and browser networking
• Hands-on experience with browser automation tools (e.g. Playwright, Selenium, Puppeteer)
• Comfortable debugging complex scraping failures at scale

Tech Preferences

• Python (preferred)

Interview Process

• CTO interview
• Meet the team