Senior Software Engineer

Duties and Responsibilities

• Design, write, and maintain high-quality, efficient, and maintainable code in accordance with team standards and best practices
• The development and long-term maintenance of web crawlers and scrapers — this will be the primary and strategic focus of the role
• Analyze, optimize, and significantly improve existing functionality with an eye toward performance, scalability, and reliability
• Drive technical decisions, evaluate trade-offs, and introduce new technologies and approaches when appropriate
• Solve complex, non-standard problems and take a proactive role in defining robust technical solutions
• Collaborate closely with other engineers, share expertise, and contribute to improving overall engineering quality

Skills and Experience

• 7+ years of professional software development experience, including work on complex production systems
• Deep understanding of modern software development principles, architectural patterns, and best practices
• Strong, hands-on experience with PHP (3+ years), including performance optimization and debugging
• Proven experience building and maintaining production-grade web crawlers, scrapers, and parsers (HTML parsing, HTTP protocol internals, and 'polite' scraping principles: understanding real-user behavior and smart navigation, deep knowledge of what is perceived as aggressive bot crawling behavior by sites/Cloudflare-like firewalls to avoid this behavior and being efficient in getting data at the same time)
• Experience containerizing and deploying applications using Docker
• Linux background and confidence writing and maintaining scripts in Linux environments
• Strong feedback skills and the ability to contribute constructively to code reviews.
• Ability to work effectively with incomplete or ambiguous requirements.
• Proactivity: The ability to foresee and mitigate potential issues before they escalate into incidents.

Nice to Have

• Experience designing or working with high-load systems and large-scale data processing
• Experience with Kubernetes (k8s) in production environments
• Python skills (used for tooling, data processing, or scraping)
• Experience with TypeScript
• Familiarity with Redis
• Experience working with the Symfony framework
• Hands-on experience with browser automation libraries: Puppeteer, Playwright, Selenium and others

What we offer

• 22 days of paid time off, plus your local national holidays
• Flexible work hours and a culture that trusts you to manage your time
• Private medical insurance or a medical allowance (depending on your location)
• Extended paid sick leave so you can fully recover without worry
• Career map with growth opportunities
• Support for wellbeing and L&D
• Best hardware for your work (team Apple)
• An award-winning product loved by thousands of customers worldwide
• A transparent, flexible culture with people at the core of everything we do
• Events that are actually fun