Web Scraping Specialist
Role Overview
As a Web Scraping Specialist at SEON, you'll design and maintain scalable scraping infrastructure primarily using Java and Python. This mid-level role involves collaborating with engineers and product teams to enhance data collection capabilities, directly impacting fraud prevention efforts across various platforms.
Perks & Benefits
SEON offers a remote work setup with a focus on collaboration and team knowledge sharing. The company promotes a culture of inclusivity and equal opportunity, and while specific benefits are not detailed, typical tech roles suggest flexibility, opportunities for career growth, and a supportive work environment.
Full Job Description
SEON is the command center for fraud prevention and AML compliance, helping thousands of companies worldwide stop fraud, reduce risk and protect revenue. Powered by 900+ real-time, first-party data signals, SEON enriches customer profiles, flags suspicious behavior and streamlines compliance workflows - all from one place. SEON provides richer data, more flexible and transparent analysis, and faster time to value than any other provider on the market. We’ve helped companies reduce fraud by 95% and achieve 32x ROI, and we’re growing fast, thanks to our partnerships with some of the world’s most ambitious digital brands like Revolut, Wise, and Bilt.
As a Web Scraping Specialist at SEON, you will play a key role in building and evolving the systems that power SEON’s real-time data collection engine. You’ll develop and maintain scalable, resilient scraper infrastructure. Your work will directly support SEON’s fraud prevention capabilities, enabling robust data gathering across hundreds of platforms. You’ll collaborate closely with fellow engineers, product teams, and infrastructure specialists to deliver resilient, high-performance scraping solutions. This role reports into the Team Lead of Data Enrichment Crawler Team.
What You'll Do:
Design, develop, and maintain scalable, multithreaded scraping and crawling services, primarily in Java, with contributions to Python-based systems as part of an ongoing architecture shift.
Improve throughput, resiliency, and performance of scraping infrastructure, including proxy management, connection handling, and fault tolerance.
Contribute to the design of scraping components and APIs that power SEON’s data ingestion pipeline.
Refactor and modernize existing scrapers, identify bottlenecks, and reduce technical debt.
Enhance test coverage, observability, and maintainability of core components.
Collaborate with Product Management and Engineering peers to scope, refine, and deliver features aligned with business goals.
Support and review pull requests from peers, share knowledge across the team, and contribute to engineering best practices.
Analyze team metrics (latency, reliability, system cost) and suggest actionable improvements.
Contribute to technical planning and support others during the full SDLC, from design to deployment.
What You Bring:
3+ years of web scraping experience with Java and/or Python.
Solid understanding of networking, connection reuse, proxies, and scraping at scale.
Familiarity with RESTful APIs and web backend frameworks.
Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes in production environments.
Strong collaboration and communication skills; fluent in English.
Willingness to work with and contribute to Java/Spring-based systems.
Amazing if You Also Have:
Previous experience contributing to the design of scraper orchestration, error handling, and proxy rotation.
Experience with scraping frameworks or tools like Selenium, Puppeteer, Scrapy, or Playwright.
Experience working with AWS services.
Familiarity with monitoring and observability stacks (e.g. Kibana, Prometheus, Grafana).
CI/CD exposure, especially with GitHub Actions.
Knowledge of relevant technologies, including:
ElasticSearch
InfluxDB
Redis
DynamoDB
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SEON is an equal opportunity employer. We strive to embrace what makes each one of us unique; we each have our own story. Whether looking at our current staff or future team members, we believe that everyone has something to contribute, and our employment practices reflect that. We do not make an employment decision based upon race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. Please let your recruiter know if you need reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process.
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