Director of Software Engineering – Node.js, Web Scraping Expert

Role Overview

• Architect, develop, and maintain scalable and distributed web scraping systems using Node.js.
• Design and implement data extraction pipelines to process large volumes of structured and unstructured data.
• Develop solutions to bypass anti-bot mechanisms, including CAPTCHA handling, session management, fingerprinting, and IP rotation.
• Optimize scraping processes for performance, reliability, and efficiency while managing proxy services (residential, datacenter, rotating).
• Oversee data storage and processing strategies, ensuring high availability and consistency.
• Collaborate with Product, DevOps, and Data Science teams to integrate extracted data into analytics and business applications.
• Implement best practices for microservices, API integrations, and real-time data streaming.
• Lead the transition to cloud-native, containerized, and serverless architectures for web scraping.
• Ensure compliance with legal and ethical standards (robots.txt, GDPR, CCPA, etc.).
• Optimize cloud resources (AWS, GCP, or Azure) to support high-throughput scraping.
• Manage real-time monitoring and alerting systems to detect scraping failures, IP bans, or performance bottlenecks.
• Work closely with DevOps teams to optimize CI/CD pipelines, automated deployments, and system scalability.
• Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performance engineering team.
• Define and execute the technology roadmap, aligning with business objectives.
• Foster a culture of continuous learning, collaboration, and innovation.
• Implement agile development methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) to optimize project execution.
• Ensure code quality, security, and best practices across all engineering efforts.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 5+ years in web scraping and large-scale data extraction.
• Strong hands-on expertise in Node.js, Puppeteer, Playwright, Cheerio, Selenium, and headless browser automation.
• Extensive experience in handling CAPTCHAs, IP rotation, session management, and anti-bot evasion techniques.
• Deep knowledge of proxy management (residential, datacenter, rotating, and VPNs).
• Experience with NoSQL/SQL databases (MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, etc.).
• Familiarity with data processing frameworks (Kafka, RabbitMQ, Spark, Airflow, etc.).
• Strong experience with CI/CD, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and cloud deployment (AWS/GCP/Azure).

Tech Stack

• Airflow
• AWS
• Azure
• Cloud
• Docker
• ElasticSearch
• Google Cloud Platform
• JavaScript
• Kafka
• Kubernetes
• Microservices
• MongoDB
• Node.js
• NoSQL
• Postgres
• Puppeteer
• RabbitMQ
• Redis
• Selenium
• Spark
• SQL