[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer @saas.group

Role Description

This role is part of our ScraperAPI team, one of our growing brands at saas.group. ScraperAPI is an enterprise-scale web scraping solution, trusted by businesses across a wide range of industries to extract crucial data at scale. We're currently on an exciting growth journey, scaling rapidly as demand for reliable, high-performance web scraping and data keeps rising.

This is the hard end of web scraping. The sites we rely on, such as Google, Amazon, and Walmart, actively work to block us, and they change the rules without warning. We're looking for a senior engineer who can:

• Go deep on why we're being blocked and work out how the detection actually functions.
• Design repeatable ways around it.

Your immediate impact in the first 3-6 months will be:

• Getting a full local environment running and becoming fluent in our systems and how they operate, in the first few weeks.
• Contributing to a proposal on the design for a repeatable environment we can pose anti-bot problems to and get reliable analysis out of.
• Building that environment out over the following months so that, by month six, we can point it at a target or provider and have it reliably tell us how we're being blocked and what is and isn't being used against us.

Responsibilities

• Analyse how specific anti-bot and bot-mitigation systems detect and block us, and design systems to work around them.
• Turn isolated breakthroughs into durable, repeatable processes: hypothesis, test, discard what's wrong, move on.
• In collaboration with other senior team members, design and build a greenfield agentic environment that can propose and run tests on anti-bot behaviour and bypass approaches.
• Work largely independently on deep, concentrated problems, while actively pulling in knowledge from across the wider engineering team.
• Communicate clearly what you plan to do, and step into major incidents when the team needs your depth.

Qualifications

• Deep, genuine understanding of how the internet works underneath: HTTP, TLS and fingerprinting, proxies, headers, cookies, and browser behaviour.
• Excellent problem-solving built on a scientific, methodical approach.
• Strong hands-on skills in our stack: Node.js and TypeScript with solid Python, and comfort across backend systems at scale (Postgres, Redis/Valkey, MongoDB, Puppeteer/Camoufox, Kubernetes).
• Real skill at directing AI coding agents with precision.
• A background that has given you this kind of depth and rigour, possibly in scraping, anti-bot or web-security work, reverse engineering, or a research or academic path.
• Independence and strong communication skills.

Benefits

• Ultimate flexibility: 100% remote work.
• Freedom and autonomy: high-trust team with flexibility to solve problems in your own way.
• Minimum bureaucracy: efficient processes without excessive meetings.
• Small & friendly team: supportive and fun work environment.
• Our network: community of entrepreneurial SaaS professionals exchanging ideas and knowledge.
• Flexible time off: recharge your batteries when needed.

Company Description

ScraperAPI is part of saas.group, established in 2017, on a mission to turbocharge promising B2B SaaS ventures. We specialize in acquiring small software treasures and polishing them into industry stars. With a dynamic, fully remote team of nearly 400 colleagues spanning 50+ countries, we are truly global and rewriting the playbook on SaaS innovation and collaboration.

• We grow 25 exciting brands under our umbrella.
• We believe in the power of diversity and fresh perspectives.